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It's never clear to me what to do with a flash flood warning. Do I stay indoors? Do I move to higher ground? It can be a little vague as far as what should I

• bogomipz 5y ago
  I believe the warning alerts advise not to travel unless fleeing flooding and the flash flood emergency alerts specifically state "move immediately to higher ground" and "don't walk or drive through flood areas." One criticism I've read a few times in the past week has been suggesting that people may have had alert fatigue. While it is true that things like the Weather Channel have contributed a lot of noise(naming winter storms for instance.) Additionally there were 4 separate alerts that went out the night of the flooding. And of course things like Amber alerts and similar seem to be commonplace now so there may be some truth to that. The irony however is that as a society we seem increasingly more fixated on our screens and don't mind the endless text messages and social media and app notifications yet somehow potentially life-saving alerts would be the source of fatigue.