[EAS] San Jose CA midnight evacuation order

[Dave Kline]

So some gov't official decides that "normal" people should be fast asleep at that hour and are better off not knowing what hit them, than suffering through an evacuation?
Rescue workers knocking on doors in place of EAS WEA rather than in conjunction with those warning systems, is a bit Paul Revere-ish.
"Two if by sea." Seems appropriate for a flood.

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Dave Kline   UNO-TV/Mav Radio/KVNO
University of Nebraska at Omaha
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On Feb 22, 2017, at 9:03 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:

>At 12:15 AM early Wednesday morning, San Jose issued a mandatory evacuation order for approximately 14,000 people.  San Jose used subscription-based alerts and mass media, but did not activate either
>WEA or EAS for the evacuation order.

>Due to the late hour, few people were watching TV or checking social media. In many cases, the first people learned about the evacuation is when rescue workers knocked on their doors.

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