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Subject: RE: [emergency] Re: [CAP] NOAA Undermining International Standards?




From: Elysa Jones <ejones@warningsystems.com>
To: "Lee Tincher" <ltincher@evotecinc.com>,       "'Rex Brooks'" <rexb@starbourne.com>,       "'Art Botterell'" <acb@incident.com>,       "'Herbert White'" <Herbert.White@noaa.gov>
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:01:26 -0500






In addition to the OAT report, HazCollect will be used or not by the 
local emergency management community.  If it provides a capability 
that they find useful, they will use it, otherwise they wont.  The 
concern I have heard from local EMAs is that they are concerned that 
warning messages could go out over NWR without them knowing about 
it.  Except for that - if the instruction field is missing and there 
is no way to provide a protective action to the community with the 
warning, there is a good chance they wont use it anyway.  In addition 
to the OAT report, maybe the IAEM community will insist that the 
instruction be used in order for a change to happen to 
HazCollect.  With the local EMAs I have talked with about this, they 
have a good method of communicating and authenticating warnings to 
their local NWS for distribution - NWR, EAS and otherwise.  Many are 
planning to use CAP.  Most I have talked with seem leery of 
HazCollect but completely trust their local NWS.  Elysa

At 04:47 PM 6/2/2006, Lee Tincher wrote:
>I whole-heartedly agree :-)
>
>