Hawaii is one of the few states I have never been to, and I once missed a trivia question about who was the last King in the united states.
Regardless if they had sounded the siren for 20 seconds, then a few minutes later did it again etc, people would wonder what was up, and look at their cel phone or turn on radio/tv
if I get in my car to flee something my first thought would be to turn on the radio to get more info, but maybe I am overestimating people
I’m wondering
1) Don’t we still have the Emergency Broadcast System for things like this?
and
2) How hard would it have been to drum it into people’s heads that the siren doesn’t mean “Tsunami Coming. Head For the Hills,” but rather “Something Bad Coming: Radio Or TV Will Tell You More”?
Regarding listening to the radio. Quite a few said they were saved by AM radio. Ford and several other companies want to remove AM radio from their car serve.