[EAS] [BC] What's the point of LP-1s anymore?

[Botterell, Arthur@CalOES]

If you say so, Ed... but more and more I'm put in mind of the "WKRP of Christmas Future" scene... nothing left but a salesman and a computer.

Personally I tend to think like Clay and the others here who think that using broadcasters as relays for state/local emergency alerts is increasingly non-viable.  And I'll go further, as I have before, and suggest that it's time for a dry-eyed reconsideration of the suitability of EAS for state/local alerting at all.

Regrettably as we saw in our recent disastrous fires, local officials seem to be voting with their feet... and I'm afraid folks like the deaf and hearing-impaired may be getting left behind in the process of that spontaneous, unplanned migration.

Art