[EAS] Wildfires -- Colorado re-learning the lessons California learned

[Dave Kline]

I think you've pretty well laid out the problem Sean.
No one knows WHO'S job "it" is. And no one, except NWS, seems to really be stepping up.
Averted eyes, or missed meetings are all too common. Doing just enough to CYA and keep ONE's job seems to be about as good as it gets.

Alerting seems to have become too complicated for MOST to want to take it on.
It also seems to be more expensive than MOST are willing to stomach.

I guess THOSE who avoid it hope nothing happens on THEIR watch, and if it does,  THEY consider it the price of doing business in politics. As long as PEOPLE can point fingers in another direction, this will continue to be the way things go.

Other countries can do things ours can't, because our nation is actually a collection of 50+ "countries" with varying agendas, and resources. Nevermind sub-dividing states and territories into smaller jurisdictions. In this matter, comparing Japan's alerting to the USA, makes no sense. You need to compare Japan to Nebraska, or even Douglas County for example.

This won't get solved unless SOMEONE can figure out exactly WHO has jurisdiction and responsibility for saving lives and property given specific events and locations. That same SOMEONE should also be willing to hold THEM accountable when THEY don't. That, possibly is a task even more monumental than providing a proper level of alerting in the first place. The first step is to define who is: SOMEONE, WHO, THEM, THOSE, ONE, THEIR, PEOPLE, MOST and THEY. Step two is for all of these non-descript entities to care about it beyond just saving their own political necks.

It's great when NWS can do it, but it shouldn't all be on them.

On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 3:57 AM Sean Donelan sean at donelan.com> wrote:

>Policies change.

>Once upon a time, the weather bureau (predecessor agency to NWS) didn't
>issue public hurricane or tornado warnings.  Now it does. Other countries
>have organized their meteorological agencies differently. Japan's
>meteorogical agency issues warnings for natural phenomena in the fields of
>meteorology, hydrology, seismology and volcanology, among other related
>scientific fields.

>The U.S. splits up funding/responbility in weird ways based on 100 year
>old historical bureacracies (DOI, USDA, DOE, DOC, etc).

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Dave Kline - Solder Jockey
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