I think in the case of the Manitoba storms the other night, the correct level was being used - there were legitimate funnel clouds being produced - but the coverage area was way too large.
I got 5 or 6 top level "tornado in your area" alerts - not from Environment Canada, mind you, but from the government emergency alert system - but the actual at-risk areas were up to 30 km away.
I got 5 or 6 top level "tornado in your area" alerts - not from Environment Canada, mind you, but from the government emergency alert system
I just looked at my emergency alert history, and I got 19 tornado alerts on June 9, and I was also a signifigant distance from the areas where the storm damage occurred.
I understand that the path of a tornado can be unpredictable, but after the first 10 alerts, I got the message. No need to keep sending them every few minutes (I got a couple of bursts of 3 of them within 5 minutes)
About a year into COVID some asshat in our province decided they needed to do a few province wide alerts just to make sure we knew COVID existed. At like 2AM.
That's when I disabled alerts. Government employee never heard about the boy that cried wolf.
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normonator@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 69d
Also use the correct level for alerts. There's more than presidential but Canada seems too stupid to use it properly.
I had disabled the alerts entirely since every fucking test was useless and overly intrusive.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website · 4 pts · 69d
I think in the case of the Manitoba storms the other night, the correct level was being used - there were legitimate funnel clouds being produced - but the coverage area was way too large.
I got 5 or 6 top level "tornado in your area" alerts - not from Environment Canada, mind you, but from the government emergency alert system - but the actual at-risk areas were up to 30 km away.
kent_eh@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 68d
I just looked at my emergency alert history, and I got 19 tornado alerts on June 9, and I was also a signifigant distance from the areas where the storm damage occurred.
I understand that the path of a tornado can be unpredictable, but after the first 10 alerts, I got the message. No need to keep sending them every few minutes (I got a couple of bursts of 3 of them within 5 minutes)
ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 68d
About a year into COVID some asshat in our province decided they needed to do a few province wide alerts just to make sure we knew COVID existed. At like 2AM.
That's when I disabled alerts. Government employee never heard about the boy that cried wolf.