[EAS] Resolved- Nationwide AT&T Mobility 9-1-1 outage

Sean Donelan sean at donelan.com
Wed Mar 8 22:18:58 CST 2017


On Thu, 9 Mar 2017, Botterell, Arthur at CalOES wrote:
> Using CEM also avoids "scary" text crawls on legacy EAS equipment when the audio or IPAWS message is missing.
>
> I've talked with some deaf and hearing-impaired folks who find the CEM crawl especially scary, as it sounds ominous but explains nothing....

Do they find Civil Danger Warning more or less scary than Civil Emergency 
Message? Or Unknown Warning?

Basically all the coded translations have issues.  Wave the magic wand and 
upgrade all systems to full text, audio and video alerting.

Given that magic doesn't exist, among the codes available since the 
begining of SAME/EAS, what should be used when a more specific alert isn't 
available in the legacy channel?



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