As a minimum, a local emergency deparment should have an automatic interface to the nearest weather radar. If a radar scan suggests “ocean falling down”, people should be alerted with text messages in the same way they’d be alerted of a wildfire, chemical leak or incoming missile strike.
Absolutely, but I’m not sure if a bunch of text messages sent out at 2 am would have prevented that many deaths. This is unbelievably tragic, but feels like the new reality with climate change :/
100% prevention is probably unattainable, but in case of the childrens’ camp an early word of competent instruction “get away from rivers and find shelter on high ground” would have probably helped a lot. Even if it would have woken up only 10% of the people, they could have woken up the rest.
As a minimum, a local emergency deparment should have an automatic interface to the nearest weather radar. If a radar scan suggests “ocean falling down”, people should be alerted with text messages in the same way they’d be alerted of a wildfire, chemical leak or incoming missile strike.
Absolutely, but I’m not sure if a bunch of text messages sent out at 2 am would have prevented that many deaths. This is unbelievably tragic, but feels like the new reality with climate change :/
100% prevention is probably unattainable, but in case of the childrens’ camp an early word of competent instruction “get away from rivers and find shelter on high ground” would have probably helped a lot. Even if it would have woken up only 10% of the people, they could have woken up the rest.