Comment by graycat
7 months ago
Get a good system to alert, wake, get the attention of all the people at risk and on the way out'a there right away for $0?
(1) The weather center develops a warning directed graph of persons who spread the word to get the PAS at their work. You ask what is the PAS?
(2) PAS -- People's Alert System: Everyone in the weather center, fire, police, and everyone else ready and willing to help, etc. who has access to a car, better, a firetruck or ambulance, gets in and turns on the horn and/or siren and drives all the vulnerable streets and makes sure all the buildings are awake and know about the threat. Then the PAS people, with others as passengers, drive the heck out of the area of the threat. Should also work for hurricanes, etc.
I don't understand what you mean.
There already exist:
- Apps like Tile (lost device sound) and CodeRED that effectively act like EAS/EBS/AMBER Alerts.
- There are zillion of water stream gauges all over Flash Flood Alley operated by the probably soon-to-defunded NOAA.[0]
0. https://water.noaa.gov/wfo/ewx#@=260.834452,29.625805,7.9432...
> I don't understand what you mean.
I explained in (2). The main point in (2) is that ALL the people in the threatened area, right on the street they ARE, where they live, work, shop, walk, whatever, get LOUD SIRENS, REALLY LOUD, to warn them and also transportation OUT'A there.
Alerts on cell phones, TV, radio, newspapers, "water stream gauges", etc. leave HUNDREDS of people, including a camp full of girls and counselors, still ASLEEP and now "missing" or "DEAD". As in (2), we need to WAKE them, everyone, UP and get them OUT.
There may be proposals to install flashing lights, bells, whistles, sirens, etc. on phone poles, etc., but in the ~60 years to the next such flood such means will likely be rusty, broken, dead, etc. Sooooo, (2) just has people alive at the time of the flood THEN using the cars, trucks, horns, sirens available and working THEN to solve the problem.