Something similar is happening in my region after the flood that happened two years ago: The alarm was raised late; Now, even mild rain is triggering an alert.
Guess whats the consequence of that? Less and less people pay attention to the alerts.
Guess whats the consequence of that? Less and less people pay attention to the alerts.
Government officials are terrified of taking the blame for another Valencia style flooding catastrophe so any hint of rain blasts the mobile phone emergency system. Once the alert has been sent the officials can feel safe in the knowledge that they've done something.
How can you even claim infrastructure is not bad in our country?
But yeah, this is after the "EVERYBODY IS ABOUT THE DIE" sound alarm that triggers on everyone's phone at the same time, then you get see that they're warning about an orange weather warning, or something like that.
Is it ideal? Not really, but better than nothing. In Maresme-area we have serious flood-risk almost every time it rains, as it fucking pours when it rains, and the warnings seemingly actually save lives today.
Getting a maximum level message and then having to check another thing is not the best way to do it. The messages should be useful without further checking. In case of phone network overload, they can be the only thing the user can read.
Based in the description of levels for EU-Alert, Spain could be using it wrong. Evacuation orders are under level 2. Multiple levels are there to prepare people and give enough time in advance. It also means politicians should be less terrified to use it, as long as they use the full range avaliable. Not everyone will enable all 2-4. It will depend on how many times they are abused and how nasty the sound is for the minor levels... (checks wiki) same for 1-4 seems common... which is an oversight of the standard. EU should correct that, or all phone makers workaround it by adding a third setting for levels 2-4: on, off, on-without-scaring-user.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU-Alert
Spain leans too much into kakistocracy, IMO.
Agree, I don't think any country has "full alerts" for "everything", Spain certainly doesn't, although currently they're over-warning for the rain rather than the opposite, as "the opposite" last time ended up in a large catastrophe. I get it.
> Based in the description of levels for EU-Alert, Spain could be using it wrong
Shouldn't you first read descriptions about how Spain is using it actually, before arriving at such conclusions? Seems you're building this point of view based on anecdotes, mine included.
In the spirit of what we're discussing here, shouldn't you actually validate and verify before you share this at large?