we have weather forecasts on the tv and in newspapers but those are just that, forecasts. for urgent information, sometimes you can see it on the news on tv (like hurricane or tornado warnings) but my state got a tsunami warning two weeks ago that wasn't really mentioned on tv until the tsunami would have already hit the coast. the emergency alert system in the us sort of assumes you have a phone or access to a computer and plenty of times i've gotten an alert for an urgent thing (a child abduction in the area, for instance) that directs me to a twitter page that i then can't read because i don't have a twitter account. as more and more local news and organizations like police departments move online i bet that problem will only get worse
I see. That would never work in my country. A lot of people don’t have phones or use the internet and even less people use twitter/x. But to be fair we also don’t really have natural disasters except for floods. A system that relies on you having a certain social media app to get important information seems like a bad system.
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