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From https://twitter.com/dmelvin3737/status/1047557154729840646 https://twitter.com/dmelvin3737/status/1047557154729840646 The "Presidential" alert is the leve
by gbrayut 8y ago
From https://twitter.com/dmelvin3737/status/1047557154729840646 https://twitter.com/dmelvin3737/status/1047557154729840646
The "Presidential" alert is the level of alert. It's been named this for over a decade, but none have ever been sent.
The levels are :
AMBER alert
Severe alerts
Extreme alerts
Presidential alerts
- kibwen 8y agoI'll bikeshed this; I'd rather see the latter ones titled as "Local emergency", "State emergency", "National emergency". What sort of intuition are we supposed to have for the difference between a severe and an extreme emergency?
- umvi 8y agoSame intuition needed for differentiating telescope aperture sizes (context: https://xkcd.com/1294/ https://xkcd.com/1294/)
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]