[EAS] Announcements

[Suzanne Goucher]

EAS isn't intended for long-fused, more or less predictable, can-see-it-coming events like hurricanes (or thunderstorms, for that matter).  It's intended for the sudden, unforeseen, or unexpected events, like what time a 6-foot storm surge comes ashore.  We stopped carrying thunderstorm warnings in Maine a few years back because we were getting 30 to 35 of them for any given event, and the two or three tornado warnings mixed in were getting missed. T'storms - predictable.  Tornadoes, not so much.

(The hurricane isn't expected to make landfall until Thursday at the earliest, but I called my sister-in-law in inland NC last night to urge her to get out to the stores TODAY before the shelves empty.)

> On Sep 10, 2018, at 7:29 PM, Rich Parker <rparker1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Will there be an EAS pool to see how many times (or if) EAS gets used
> for this storm? ;)