[EAS] Humans thwart disaster alerts - - URL

[Barry Mishkind]

At 12:45 PM 10/2/2017, Dave Kline wrote:

>But for the most part people are just idiots when it comes to alerting.
>They shut the stuff off. What are we supposed to do then?

        This is the third leg of the EAS stool, 
        where it is imperative that the NWS,
        for example, stop with the polygon praise,
        and TALK to stations, so as to redeem
        whatever respect can be restored to EAS
        in most places.

        Now, this is usually the point (and I have
        the email history to prove it) that the
        NWS says they want to talk and cooperate,
        but nothing happens except with a few
        NWS people who go rogue and do talk.
        Nationally, if we don't praise the polygon,
        NWS doesn't want to talk to us.

        At the same time, those few places where the NWS
        and broadcasters talk usually means the
        system works a lot better. 

>We can bring water to the horse but what the horse does with it up to the horse.
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>Dave Kline
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>On Oct 2, 2017, at 1:29 PM, Bill Ruck wrote:
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>>URL for article:
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>>http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Radio-wireless-alerts-can-warn-of-disaster-but-12239283.php?cmpid=gsa-sfgate-result
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>>I think that we're at times too close to the subject and an outside opinion helps us understand what users really want or need.
>
>>Bill Ruck
>>Curmudgeon
>>San Francisco
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