I wonder if anyone in western Mass who lives near where the tornadoes whipped through town last week can corroborate this:
I worked in broadcasting for a while in the later 80s and 90s and was constantly - CONSTANTLY - dealing with the Emergency Broadcast System (which evolved into the Emergency Alert System or EAS), logging tests, writing codes, kissing up to the FCC.. Now, is it just me or did EAS never once break in with an alert telling people to take cover? Is EAS a non-entity now that the cold war is two decades over? I mean, the one time those annoying tones could have come in handy and it was left up to our local disc jockeys to tell us the tornadoes were coming and what to do? Pffft...
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I worked in broadcasting for a while in the later 80s and 90s and was constantly - CONSTANTLY - dealing with the Emergency Broadcast System (which evolved into the Emergency Alert System or EAS), logging tests, writing codes, kissing up to the FCC.. Now, is it just me or did EAS never once break in with an alert telling people to take cover? Is EAS a non-entity now that the cold war is two decades over? I mean, the one time those annoying tones could have come in handy and it was left up to our local disc jockeys to tell us the tornadoes were coming and what to do? Pffft...
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