[SBE] Going forward

[Bob Reite]

Actually EAS works quite well on the local level.  While it's hard to 
say how many people have been saved by tornado or other severe weather 
warnings, I know that several children were rescued from would be 
abductors unharmed because of Amber alerts delivered via the EAS over 
the radio that the public responded to.

a9xw at cs.com wrote:

> Can we do that in LA, Frisco, DC too?  How much was out in the 

> Northridge quake?  Personally, I don't care if cell and internet are 

> out. I have lots of radios and gen power at home and mobile. But others 

> depend on it way too much. If you are not burned or buried, think a 

> little and get your own escape plan going.  Way too much reliance 

> on others doing for you what you should do for yourself. Way too much 

> reliance on Government help. ie New Orleans vs Des Moines floods. We 

> have a society segment that thinks they have no personal responsability. 

> let the natural order of things eliminate the stupid "I am entitled" 

> lazy butts. I say save yourself and whom ever else you can. The 

> government is never here to help, only clean up and over spend and get 

> in the way. EAS is as efficient as TSA: never caught a terrorist, never 

> used by the President. Its a relic form teh cold war CONELRAD

>  

> Henry 

> 

> 

> 

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Barry Mishkind <barry at oldradio.com>

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> Sent: Wed, Mar 17, 2010 3:17 pm

> Subject: Re: [SBE] Going forward

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> At 12:09 PM 3/17/2010, a9xw at cs.com <mailto:a9xw at cs.com> wrote:

>> The next gen EAS will not require broadcasters, the Govt thinks 

>> iinternet, cell and hybrid devices will suffice. 

> 

>          Interesting that you should say that.

> 

>         I read the following just this week and mentioned

>         it on another list. No one responded.

> 

>         This quote relates to the Chilean earthquake and

>         the official reaction:

> 

> "Officials admit that they made mistakes. The most serious was the 

> national emergency office’s early assurance that there was no risk of a 

> tsunami (it misplaced the quake’s epicentre as being on land). The 

> government’s slow response and failure to maintain order were partly 

> caused by its reliance not on old-fashioned radios, but on the internet 

> and mobile telephones­both of which were knocked out by a power failure. 

> For the first seven hours the government thus had no information about 

> conditions south of Santiago."

> 

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