[EAS] EAS in the County?
Barry Mishkind
barry at oldradio.com
Tue Jun 4 18:40:34 CDT 2019
At 03:16 PM 6/4/2019, Adrienne Abbott wrote:
>returned from a work trip to Mississippi. A tornado warning was issued while
>she was driving back to her hotel and she was very alarmed because she
>didn't know which county she was in and only the county was mentioned in the
>warning. The radio station staff did not provide any additional information,
>so she went straight back to her hotel, only to find out at work the next
>day that the warning was not for the town where she was.
>
>I wonder how often this happens, that people who are visiting and aren't
>familiar with the area, go back to their hotels when they hear these weather
>warnings and don't know if their area is affected.
More often that it should. I"ve been writing for
years about this issue, but it seems no one
on any side of EAS wants to talk about this.
If you don't know where Manker County is,
how can you be safe?
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