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.
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.
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 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.