[EAS] Ashanti Alert??

[Dave Kline]

Over the span of my career, I have been responsible for explaining EAS operations to both board operators and management. Since I first began, I always discussed how EAS was capable of warning us of almost anything. The example I always, and jokingly used was the Open Manhole Cover Alert. It somehow no longer seems like a joke.

On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 2:01 PM Barry Mishkind <barry at oldradio.com> wrote:
>The proliferation of warnings is now seeping into social media and even
>door bells.  Do any of you have "Ring" doorbells?  Part of the package is
>a "neighborhood watch" that warns people of bad actors. Over the months,
>this has mutated to "who rang my doorbell today?" (meaning ANYONE that
>comes to a door), and now multiple lost or found dog reports.

>It seems like we are close to "someone drove down my street" alerts.

>Can there be any reason people are ignoring many official alerts, when
>and if they are even issued?

>At 12:19 PM 1/15/2019, Richard Rudman wrote:
>>I have to agree with Ed Czarnecki on the point he made in his post that I copied below and go on to make a point that I have made before, and will likely have to make again from time-to-time until things change. I feel the need to remind one and all, including "lurkers" on this list,  that the United States still does not have a thoughtful, coherent and clearly articulated national public warning strategy.

>>On Jan 15, 2019, at 9:04 AM, Ed Czarnecki <ed.czarnecki at monroe-electronics.com> wrote:
>>>I don't object to missing adult notifications, per se, but without a
>>>coherent national framework, and with emergency alerting divided across 4+
>>>agencies/fiefdoms, the potential for these things to go sideways is ever
>>>present.

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