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[nadinbrzezinski]

87. I am just pointing the situation

and the reality of it.

The leading edge of social media being seen as another layer actually started here in San Diego in 2007, and it has gown. It is to the point that official sources now have twitter feeds. The paper subscribes to all relevant ones for San Diego in case of a disaster. And I have been separating the wheat from the chaff all day. (I even posted one rumor mongering one that was really bad)

I will be brutally very honest, very worst case scenario, and I have told this to people running FB pages locally expecting to replace media and officials (a disaster waiting to happen, with lawsuit for other reasons), the web will be down, electricity will be down, and the only people seeing this will be outside the zone. Which benefits press people in DC and NYC, that don't have time to move in.

They did not like that, but that is the truth.

But for the moment, me back to separating the wheat from the chaff (and it is also practice for when we have a real local disaster where we will be using twitter and fb and the rest of it as intel gathering)

For the record, I agree with you, people SHOULD have a radio. We have several, battery operated and also solar. And two of them have NWS weather bands. And I do not live in tornado alley. But as I have been accused I am an old fogey. I like to think having done disaster relief makes me especially sensitive to being prepared.