Good points. Where I live, we get Amber Alerts regarding child abductions or missing, in real time.
Why can’t all phone/computer systems have a similar emergency alert system designed for not only missing children but for other safety hazards as they have in tornado zones/alerts?
An F3 tornado on the ground 15 miles north of me sent a loud beeping and read Take Cover Immediately! to my cell phone.
Good idea - it would be fairly easy to set up. With a natural disaster having both alarm and notification would work best - the alarm wakes you up and let's you know to look at your phone or TV for details. We have Amber alerts where I live too.
From what I read they did send alerts to cell phones, etc. But the power and cell service were already disrupted when they did that.
They had one. Remember Hawaii was told to prepare for a nuke attack BY ACCIDENT.