Emergency Severe Weather Notifications
Spent six hours plus last night in Severe Thunderstorms and Tornado Watches and Warnings. The thing that troubles me the most is - the LACK of notification. We did get notified by one of the Campgr...
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We have routinely seen severe-weather warnings a week out, via the NWS or TV. We have routinely seen tornado-watch warnings several days in advance, by NWS or Greg Forbes' Torcon updates. Of course all this is relayed on NWS weather radio.
I have on several occasion been woke up by the blaring NWS radio about a tornado watch tomorrow. I'm from Florida; a tornado watch is known as "tomorrow."
Then we cut to the chase; a Wunderground radar plot shows a vortex signature. Ten minutes later the sky turns green and the wind gets..well..nautical. A little while later the dweebs who got the warning from Houston TV trickle in to the bathhouse. After it's gone on by.
A half-hour later a county facility 20 miles away has been torn up and the dweebs trickle out.
I DID NOT GET NOTIFIED!! Not until it had gone by.
I notified myself by watching the Nexrad plots and since it was a heavy-weather situation I didn't go to sleep and depend on anyone else. This isn't bragging, it's NORMAL LIFE.
Someone who depends on others to notify them of dangers is known as "dead."
I have on several occasion been woke up by the blaring NWS radio about a tornado watch tomorrow. I'm from Florida; a tornado watch is known as "tomorrow."
Then we cut to the chase; a Wunderground radar plot shows a vortex signature. Ten minutes later the sky turns green and the wind gets..well..nautical. A little while later the dweebs who got the warning from Houston TV trickle in to the bathhouse. After it's gone on by.
A half-hour later a county facility 20 miles away has been torn up and the dweebs trickle out.
I DID NOT GET NOTIFIED!! Not until it had gone by.
I notified myself by watching the Nexrad plots and since it was a heavy-weather situation I didn't go to sleep and depend on anyone else. This isn't bragging, it's NORMAL LIFE.
Someone who depends on others to notify them of dangers is known as "dead."
