- cross-posted to:
- texas@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- texas@lemmy.world
Mastodon bots which mirror the NWS warnings back them up
What failed was local officials not succeeding in alerting people — in large part because they had plan or mechanism available to do so with the roughly one-hour warning that current meteorology can provide for specific flash floods like this.
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So the 20 girls that are missing, they’re just going to leave it at that, eh?
No, but its better to understand what happened instead of some fiction being pushed by local officials.
When you do frequent midnight alerts for missing elderly, people disable the alerts on their phone entirely. Then when disaster hits, they don’t know its coming. And because no planning was done for it, they can’t evacuate a camp full of kids quickly enough even if they know what’s about to happen.
Actually preventing this kind of thing means maintaining preparedness for decades when nothing happens.
I kept shutting it off because of all those fucking amber alerts. Don’t get kidnapped, shit. Grandma at least has dementia to blame.
Missing kid in a silver Nissan Altima!
Yeah I see dozens of them every time I go out, if I’m actually looking and not focusing on navigatiting. But I also don’t go out often enough for it to matter, even if it happened anywhere near me.
Besides, most of those events are just one of the divorced parents taking the kid without permission, or overrunning weekend visitation, and are resolved within a few hours.
And that is exactly why they’ve become useless. Amber alerts should not have been the knee jerk reaction in custody disputes. They should have been reserved for kidnappings and child abductions, not because a pare t is huffy about overstaying the weekend visit at mom or dad’s.
I’m reminded of the time cops woke up the entire state of Texas at 5AM, to say a dude named Sam Altman shot at a cop near Amarillo. They issued a Blue Alert for the entire state. For reference, many Texans were more than an 8 hour drive away from where it happened. Yeah, shit like that gets emergency notifications muted.
Last year we had heavy rain. Every time the flash flood advisory was extended, a new “wake the dead” alert went out. These alerts ignored my phone’s audio settings and were very loud.
After around the 7th alarm between, iirc, 3 pm and 10 pm I disabled the alerts. I was too on edge by the idea of another alarm to fall asleep.
I’m not sure I turned those alarms back on.
I suggest checking.
Fine, they’re back on. But I’m only allowing Extreme alerts. The flash flood updates were Severe alerts and I’m not dealing with that bullshit again.
Foam mattresses float. Just keep a bottle of water and a hand axe under your pillow 👍
I sleep in a hammock, but I’ll keep a pool noodle nearby. If my second floor bedroom on a hill floods then I might actually be able to get out of my not-to-modern-code high bedroom windows without using my step stool.
Arrr! Just say a prayer to the bitch queen of the sea every day and you’ll be safe in your hammock, pirate.