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[–] normonator@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Also use the correct level for alerts. There's more than presidential but Canada seems too stupid to use it properly.

I had disabled the alerts entirely since every fucking test was useless and overly intrusive.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think in the case of the Manitoba storms the other night, the correct level was being used - there were legitimate funnel clouds being produced - but the coverage area was way too large.

I got 5 or 6 top level "tornado in your area" alerts - not from Environment Canada, mind you, but from the government emergency alert system - but the actual at-risk areas were up to 30 km away.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

I got 5 or 6 top level "tornado in your area" alerts - not from Environment Canada, mind you, but from the government emergency alert system

I just looked at my emergency alert history, and I got 19 tornado alerts on June 9, and I was also a signifigant distance from the areas where the storm damage occurred.

I understand that the path of a tornado can be unpredictable, but after the first 10 alerts, I got the message. No need to keep sending them every few minutes (I got a couple of bursts of 3 of them within 5 minutes)

[–] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

About a year into COVID some asshat in our province decided they needed to do a few province wide alerts just to make sure we knew COVID existed. At like 2AM.

That's when I disabled alerts. Government employee never heard about the boy that cried wolf.