Our national alert system in "disarray"

[Bluebear]

Billions spent on securing Iraq. Meanwhile, Homeland "Security" for us consists of Bush's "Code Orange" booga booga and warning about people carrying almanacs. Oh yeah, after all those years of "If this had been an actual emergency....." why was the Emergency Broadcasting System not used on 9/11?
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/28/terror/main626452.shtml

"But the system, emblematic of the nation's emergency alert network, is a mess, says a group of leading state and local disaster response officials."

[69KV]

1. All together now..

DUCT TAPE!!!

[Columbia]

2. The Emergency Alert System has transitioned to an All Hazards model

It will utilize weather alert radios as well as the emergency alert system on TV and radio.

[blackcat77]

5. It's that way already.

If you get a programmable radio, you'll see that there are all sorts of available warnings out there from the usual thunderstorms and tornados to earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis, but it also has alerts for civil disturbances and terrorist acts -- though it doesn't call them that and, of course, I can't find the book for it now to see what the specific wording is. I don't agree with the idea of adding crayola code alerts to it -- they just aren't specific and informative enough to rate inclusion in an alert radio.

[seabeyond]

3. Billions spent on securing Iraq

ya, and how has that gone. hm thinking not too secure even after billions

[blackcat77]

4. Learned something new tonight

I have one of those DVRs that you get from the cable company and I was watching a show that I'd recorded earlier and it was interrupted when they had their system test. I thought that the test had been when I had recorded it earlier but then I saw the time and it was live.

It's good that it has that capability.

One thing that really bugs me is that every time there's an amber alert anywhere in the state, the cable gets interrupted. What's the point in telling people in my home town about a possible abduction hundreds of miles away? They really need to localize that a little more.