Mastodon bots which mirror the NWS warnings back them up
What failed was local officials not succeeding in alerting people — in large part because they had plan or mechanism available to do so with the roughly one-hour warning that current meteorology can provide for specific flash floods like this.
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I kept shutting it off because of all those fucking amber alerts. Don’t get kidnapped, shit. Grandma at least has dementia to blame.
Missing kid in a silver Nissan Altima!
Yeah I see dozens of them every time I go out, if I’m actually looking and not focusing on navigatiting. But I also don’t go out often enough for it to matter, even if it happened anywhere near me.
Besides, most of those events are just one of the divorced parents taking the kid without permission, or overrunning weekend visitation, and are resolved within a few hours.
And that is exactly why they’ve become useless. Amber alerts should not have been the knee jerk reaction in custody disputes. They should have been reserved for kidnappings and child abductions, not because a pare t is huffy about overstaying the weekend visit at mom or dad’s.