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Flooded Texas County Opposed Siren Alert System That Could Have Warned Residents Because of the Cost (www.latintimes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

many people even have alerts totally disabled, because authorities got so spammy with the amber alerts.

At least amber alerts are actual emergencies. I can hear sirens for three different jurisdictions. They all test them on different days and different times, and then use them for routine weather conditions, so nobody actually pays any attention to them. Then they just fail to use any of them when two tornadoes do actually pass through town.

Obviously, YMMV. But in my experience, sirens are worse than useless.

WEA alerts, on the other hand, are extremely reliable.