[EAS] Time to make the LP daisy chain an option

[Dave Kline]

I dropped all watches as well as warnings that did not have an immediate impact on life or property.
In our area, a severe thunderstorm might spawn tornadoes, flooding, high winds, but until it does it doesn't get air time.
If someone needs to know if there is a sever thunderstorm, they can consult their weather rock, if it hasn't blown away.
Otherwise the TV stations are falling all over themselves to to beat the coverage of the "other guy." Mileage may vary in your area.
And if someone really needs to know every toss and turn of each cloud that passes overhead there's an app for that, or a weather radio.
It's getting to the point of ridiculous, that which we are expected to do to interrupt what we are expected to do

On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 10:31 AM <tpt at sevenrangesradio.com> wrote:
>Sean wrote:

>"Why do EAS managers or LP stations still complain about NWS sending
>lots of SVR or FFW taking over their airwaves.  They are all optional.
>Stations, including LPs, don't need to carry them if they don't want too."

>We get "flooded" with severe thunderstorm warnings every time a front comes through, but we are stuck with our geography. EAS decoder feeds two stations, one a B-1, another an A with a transmitter 25 miles NE of our studio. Our studio is opposite the eastern part of Washington County Ohio, which is 45 miles NE~SW along the river, as well as Wood County, WV, which runs SW some 35 miles from our studios. That Class A sits just above several plants, mostly staffed by folks commuting from towns near Wheeling--so we have Marshall County WV in the decoder where the plants are. We know they listen to that classic rock station since we have a Wheeling auto dealership group that is getting buys from our listeners. But Marshall County stretches some 30 miles from our Class A transmitter site to just outside Wheeling.

>Se we kind of have to carry severe thunderstorm warnings, especially with the possibility of flash flooding in our hill and valley terrain. But it seems like NWS will alert several times on the same storm front as it marches across our counties west to east. And with our geography, we catch warnings for storms heading towards Wheeling, 50 miles from our studios.  Just have to live with it.

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