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Maybe they should start with the radio alert system

dougm

Oct 3, 2016, 12:20 PM
Last week, was listening to the NPR FM station and got alerted on subsequent days to Amber Alerts in cities 100+ miles away from me. Now, on a typical day I immediately change the station when I hear those annoying, freaky EAS tones interrupt my radio station, because 99% of the time it's a test or a missing child, never an actual emergency. Now, on one or two particular occasions I've heard emergency alerts go out ON SELECT RADIO STATIONS when there was severe weather or tornadoes within a county or two of mine. This particular day I decided to keep my station set and happened to hear that it was an amber alert. Later that day find out that missing kids were dead by the time the alert was even issued. The next day, another child abduction ...
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