[EAS] NWS Fun

[Mike McCarthy]

WEA has it's problems too. This past week, our office location experienced
a 2"+ rain event in less than an hour. Local WFO issued a FFW for the area
and all the phones in the building went off in close concert. Fair
enough...that part of the system worked.

However, one phone blared the alert tones 5 times over the course of 15
minutes. It was sitting in the kitchen as the owner was in a studio doing
a live interview.

Is WEA supposed to repeatedly blare it's alert tones until acknowledged?
If so, such a use is completely misguided and drains a device's
battery...during what is an emergency situation. Particularly where
message flooding is occurring.

MM

On Fri, August 10, 2018 9:00 pm, Barry Mishkind wrote:
>
> Areas West of town, especially on the Tohono O'odham
> reservation (where there is no NWR coverage) have been getting dozens of
> SVR and FFW, etc. warnings for the
> past week, sometimes half a dozen or more an hour.