Should Netflix and Hulu give you emergency alerts?

Tue Mar 12 01:09:19 UTC 2019

On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 10:53 AM Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2019, William Herrin wrote:
> > My cell phone woke me up in the middle of the night during a recent
landline
> > outage because the county felt the need to let me know that I wouldn't
be
> > able to call 911 if, you know, I happened to need to call 911. Thanks
guys.
> > Thanks a lot. And I can't block their messages. That's a problem.
>
> Can you spot the multiple planning and operating flaws?

I would have to say the most glaring flaw was that the message was not
actionable. No instructions for what to do instead. Just, "Hey, wake up!
You can't call 911 right now. Bye!"

Regards,
Bill Herrin
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