[EAS] Blue Alerts Are Back

[Sean Donelan]

On Tue, 30 May 2017, Mike McCarthy wrote:
> NYC and it's immediate surroundings is a very different market. NY'rs have
> a very short tolerance for errors and mistakes. Unlike the vast majority
> of the USA which is more forgiving, NY'rs have a very strong "Fool Me
> Once" attitude. Which will then evoke a single finger response the 2nd
> time---right or wrong. It's just the way they are.

People everywhere complain when things don't work correctly. I don't think 
NY'rs have a monopoly on that.

In Moscow (Russia) are complaining this week about the lack of emergency 
alerts on their mobile phones after strong storms on Monday (May 29) 
killed over a dozen people. Over 60,000 people are being evacuated. 
Weather experts are saying its similar to a derecho.  Extreme straight 
line winds hitting the city, with relatively little advance warning.

Like most emergency warning systems, you don't need it until you need it.

I don't know if NYC OEM has originated a real EAS message. I've heard an 
AMBER alert on a NYC station. I haven't been in NYC during a hurricane or 
severe weather, so I don't know if NYC stations carry EAS weather alerts.

EAS has never been about the 24-hour news stations.  EAS is for 
alerting people watching or listening to all the other unstaffed cable 
systems and broadcast stations.