I turned off my alerts ages ago, but I heard multiple people mentioning this over the last week as well so was clearly not well received. I have to agree that it should be used very sparingly and only with extreme necessity.
The emergency alert system is valuable at a local level and counter-productive at the state level. Decision making and alert discrimination needs to be pushed down to the local level.
I turned this off with the same sad thought in 2019, about a year after moving to the SF Bay Area. I felt a sense of civic duty to keep it enabled, but it was so frequent and with entirely unactionable information. If this is a movement, it bodes poorly.
It was soooo loud!
That alert system should be activated only by simultaneously turning 2 keys, 20 feet apart, so nobody can trigger it alone.
I turned off my alerts ages ago, but I heard multiple people mentioning this over the last week as well so was clearly not well received. I have to agree that it should be used very sparingly and only with extreme necessity.
for sure
The emergency alert system is valuable at a local level and counter-productive at the state level. Decision making and alert discrimination needs to be pushed down to the local level.
I turned this off with the same sad thought in 2019, about a year after moving to the SF Bay Area. I felt a sense of civic duty to keep it enabled, but it was so frequent and with entirely unactionable information. If this is a movement, it bodes poorly.
Who cares?