• jj4211@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    One thing I wonder is how seriously people take the flood warnings.

    Most of the time if it is raining at all, I get the various flood warnings. I could imagine people underestimating those.

    I recall quite a bit being made of how overtly grim, specific, and certain the Katrina warning was and how that may have helped set it apart from the usual “warning”

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        2 months ago

        Thanks for that write up, very informative about what went down.

        I wonder about having different alert sounds. The one alert sound I barely think to take seriously. I read them and I think I would notice unique phrasing, but I also imagine people are tempted by the ability to turn off emergency alerts as they seem a bit overused.