Collaborate Disseminate
Everyone in Hawaii received a ballistic missile threat today under a system that currently has no good testing protocols. Continue reading Hey, Hawaii: The Telecom Industry Lobbied Against Testing for Emergency Alert System
Some sounds are capable of evoking instant terror. It might be the shriek of a mountain lion, or a sudden clap of thunder. Whatever your trigger sound, it instantly stimulates something deep in the lizard brain that says: get ready, danger is at hand.
For my part, you can’t get much scarier than the instantly recognizable two-tone alert signal (audio link warning) from the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS). For anyone who grew up watching TV in the 60s and 70s in the US, it was something you heard on at least a weekly basis, with that awful tone followed by …read more
Continue reading Radio Apocalypse: The Emergency Broadcast System
The city of Dallas, Texas believes computer hackers are responsible for setting off its emergency sirens more than a dozen times in just a few hours.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading Hackers set off Dallas emergency sirens more than a dozen times in a few hours
Everyone pays close attention to the weather, but for those who live where tornadoes are prevalent, watching the sky can be a matter of life and death. When the difference between making it to a shelter or getting caught in the open can be a matter of seconds, it might make sense to build an internet enabled Raspberry Pi weather alert system.
We know what you’re thinking – why not just buy an off-the-shelf weather alert radio with Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) reporting, or just rely on a smartphone app? As [Jim Scarborough] explains, living in the heart of …read more
Continue reading Better Tornado Warnings with Polygons and Pi