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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
I'm not sure how often Ireland has tsunami warnings, but here they're not uncommon, and Twitter is an excellent way for the emergency management service to update the status of the warnings - whether they're still active, if they've been withdrawn or modified, etc. MUCH more accessible to many more people than SW/VHF radio. Of course, we have a battery operated radio in our emergency preparedness kit
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In the US we can get emergency warning notifications directly from the government on our phones. Once I was sitting in the waiting room at a doctor's office on a day when it was pouring rain. A flood warning went out and all the phones in the room had alarm tones going off at the same time.