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

[Sean Donelan]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2022, Dave Kline wrote:
> 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.

Japan is probably comparable to California.  Nebraska falls somewhere 
near Kuwait (without the oil reserves). And if it wasn't part of the 
federal United States, Nebraska probably would have been invaded by one of 
its neighboring states a long time ago.

Of course, that's one of the benefits of belonging to a federal system. 
A national postal services, national weather services, interstate 
highways, global defense, access to a huge common market and financial 
systems. And when disasters overwhelm local resources, and even state 
resources, access to federal disaster response (and money).

EU countries have been working on EU-wide organizations since the end of 
WWII, with U.S. encouragement. Only recently did the EU direct (encourage) 
all its member countries establish a public warning system. Some EU 
countries have long established alert & warning systems.  Other EU 
countries have nothing. Nebraska probably couldn't afford it alone, and 
would be like tiny countries with nothing.

Remember after the Hawaii false missle alert, everyone was surprised when 
FEMA told everyone it wasn't responsible for alerting the public to ICBMs. 
The question was -- If not FEMA, who's job was it?

Should we have 50 different ICBM detection and warning systems?  The State 
of Texas probably would like to have its own ICBMs. :-)