Thursday, February 09, 2006

"The Little EAS System That Kept Crying Wolf"

Another EAS goof produces a false tsunami warning — for Alaska.

I take the liberty of reprinting Tom Taylor's M Street Journal report, because it bears repeating until someone in Washington DOES something to fix this pathetic situation...
No, Fairbanks isn’t about to get pummeled by 20-foot waves, especially in February. But a slip-up at a National Weather Service office sent the header for a tsunami warning out to the entire state Monday morning. That did touch off a big wave — of phone calls to newsrooms and radio station front desks. NWS says it’s trying to figure out how the erroneous header got sent. Once again we issue a plea to the FCC and other authorities to make the Emergency Alert System something that will truly serve the nation. How ’bout it?

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