[EAS] HI Alert

[Dave Kline]

I guess I don't understand why, if someone had thought to issue a CEM, they felt they had to ask permission from someone who is not themselves.
I can see no one thinking about issuing a retraction alert in the ensuing panic and arse covering that probably was happening immediately after they discovered the error. But someone DID think to do it. Why not just do it then? No law again it, is there? Heck they could have used an RMT event code for that matter, or any alert that allows for an announcement, which is just about any of them. Pick one (except EAN) an go. Just anything to get the word out. 
In hindsight, it's what I would have done.
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Dave Kline 
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On Jan 30, 2018, at 2:33 PM, Botterell, Arthur at CalOES wrote:

>The Commish published it's preliminary findings pre today's meeting... here's my take-away:
>Process/Planning errors:
>- An extended delay in retraction resulted from uncertainty as to whether a particular EAS event code (CEM) could properly be used to retract an earlier warning.  (It could and subsequently was, although it wasn't designed for that use.)