[sbe-eas] NWS forgetting the lessons of Hurricane Harvey (Houston 2017)

[Sean Donelan]

If dinging people 10 times is good, why not ding them 20 times or 50 
times.

Surely, more is better.  Its not like those people won't turn off their 
alerts, and not receive a later alert about a more severe, more relevant 
event.

For a few decades, building fire alarm vendors kept increasing the decibel 
sound levels of fire alarms on the theory making it louder would get 
people to leave faster.

Louder doesn't work.  Instead firefighters demanded a way to silence fire 
alarms while they were trying to put out fires. The loud fire alarms made
it difficult for first responders to hear people needing rescue.

On Thu, 10 Oct 2024, Ed Czarnecki wrote:
> that, dinging people 10 or times over WEA that there is a tornado … on the
> ground … may well have gotten some of the more stubborn folk to actually
> take action, and prevent further casualties (as a relative of some rather
> stubborn folk in FL).