Posted on 08/18/2023 2:17:58 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Siren fast facts.
Hawaiʻi has the largest single integrated Outdoor Siren Warning System for Public Safety in the world.
The all-hazard siren system can be used for a variety of both natural and human-caused events; including tsunamis, hurricanes, dam breaches, flooding, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, terrorist threats, hazardous material incidents, and more.
The sirens output is 121 decibels and propagate with a manufacture radius of 3400ft. This range may vary due to environmental and surrounding physical conditions. The sirens are battery-powered and use a photovoltaic charging system.
The sirens are one part of the larger Hawaiʻi Statewide Alert and Warning System (SAWS) which includes FEMA’s Integrated Public Alert & Warning System (IPAWS) which used both the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) to alert the public.
The sirens, along with the EAS, are tested on the first business day of each month in collaboration with County Emergency Management/Civil Defense Agencies and local Radio/TV/Cable broadcast partners.
When a siren tone is heard other than a scheduled test, tune into local Radio/TV/Cable stations for emergency information and instructions by official authorities. If you are in a low laying area near the coastline; evacuate to high grounds, inland, or vertically to the 4th floor and higher of a concrete building. Alerts may also come in form of a Wireless Emergency Alert.
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Too bad they didn’t work. That’s just like the govt.
Or would have if they had been used.
Appears that the state was more concerned with getting their systems to have cool acronyms than to actually using them. I think I read where they didn’t want to sound the alert as it would just add to the chaos!
Yep.
Just like the govt.
Guess the rulers didn’t want to wear it out. I wonder if there are trees suitable for a hanging in Hawaii? The survivors should look into it.
For the wildfire Alert blast, there should be continuous short blasts. Very easy to distinguish from the wailing-long blast of the tsunami. alert . For nuclear alert; something else. Train the IQ impaired to understand and recognize these differences in tone and what they mean.
“If you are in a low laying area near the coastline; evacuate to high grounds, inland, or vertically to the 4th floor and higher of a concrete building.”
No, that’ll never do - makes waaay too much sense.
Sorry
;-)
Paragraph three (...wildfires...) has an implicit conflict with paragraph 7, which reads
When a siren tone is heard other than a scheduled test, tune into local Radio/TV/Cable stations for emergency information and instructions by official authorities. If you are in a low laying area near the coastline; evacuate to high grounds, inland, or vertically to the 4th floor and higher of a concrete building.
The presumption in paragraph 7, sentence 2 is that the emergency is a tsunami.
So the hapless Maui emergency administrators are in a sense half-correct that use of the sirens could have caused at least some initial confusion. However, the problem seems to date back at least as far as this description, which in turn possibly reflects conflicting design goals, if not at least conflicting public education efforts.
The goals of the sirens should have been more clearly set forth from the beginning. For example, a separate siren sound could have been used for wildfires. (Or, perhaps this is impractical?)
Reminds me of a guy I worked with during the aftermath of Rita. There was a major shortage of food quality resin to make milk and water bottles with. We had an emergency stash because we were in the north and the snow does not care about "just in time". The GM was pulling half of the reserve to keep running. This manager objected as it was "for emergencies". The GM blinked and said very carefully, "Larry, this IS an emergency."
The government is full of Larrys.
Reads like a press release. Apparently there is a typo in the blurb though; “The all-hazard siren system can be used for a variety of both natural and human-caused events; including tsunamis, hurricanes, dam breaches, flooding, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, terrorist threats, hazardous material incidents, and more.” Somehow the word Wildfires got inserted. I am sure this was just a “Typicalgraphical” error by some typest, who is now looking for a new job.
Not to mention the “low laying areas”.
The list doesn't include actions by the Deep State Cabal.
Or they could put a rope on the politicians and troll for sharks.
Nice, after all they are on an island. Might as well use some of that ocean water that didn’t get used. After all, bull sharks, white tips, tiger sharks, they all gotta eat same as the worms. As Josie Wales would say.
I was wondering if they had different siren sounds or patterns for different hazards?
Quoting my wife...
Hawaii is beautiful but it has a low quality government.
Also—lots of fines and restrictions on tourists these days. Can’t bike down Haleakela, can’t hike the Waihee Valley, can’t snorkle in some areas now. . .parking for sunset views on Haleakela restricted now. Can’t go down Molokai on a mule anymore.
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