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Re: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 18:34:25 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 9 Oct 2018, Aaron C. de Bruyn wrote:
Sure--I totally agree. But we don't build smoke detectors into our cell phones because that's not a very good use case. And I'm not aware of weather alerts being broadcast to cell phones without having an app installed, and it's unreliable. (Although some already have AM/FM radios in them...)
Since 2011, WEA has been used for over 30,000 weather alerts including tsunami, tornado, extreme wind, hurricane & typhoons. Unless you turn alerts off on your cell phone. iPhone 5 (iOS 6 and later) includes WEA.
https://www.weather.gov/wrn/weaWeather alerts are the largest catagory of Wireless Emergency Alerts on cell phones. However, WEA is only used for the most severe weather alerts. WEA is built into most smart cell phones, and overcomes the congestion issues with text based Apps on cell phones.
And we come full circle. No single warning system works for everything. That's why its important to have multiple warning systems or warning communication channels.
Amazon Alexa is ahead of Google Assistant with weather warnings. Alexa won't proactively warn you about tornados. But if you ask "Alexa, What's the weather?" Alexa will tell you when there is a tornado warning in your area at that moment. Google Assistant only tells you the forecast, not information about active tornado warnings in your area.
Siri and Cortana are very far behind both Amazon and Google.
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- Re: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test Sean Donelan (Oct 08)
- Re: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG (Oct 08)
- Re: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test Sean Donelan (Oct 08)
- Re: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test Andy Ringsmuth (Oct 09)
- Re: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test bzs (Oct 09)
- Re: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test Brian Kantor (Oct 09)
- Re: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test valdis . kletnieks (Oct 06)
- Re: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG (Oct 09)
- Re: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test Chris Adams (Oct 09)
- Re: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test bzs (Oct 09)
- Re: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test Sean Donelan (Oct 09)
- Re: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test Sean Donelan (Oct 09)
- Re: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test Andy Brezinsky (Oct 09)