What do fellow sysadmins do with regards to alert emails. Our system is let all the systems email the one address. It's hoped between the 3 senior admins we'll catch important stuff. But these days it's become very noisy and with staff shortages this week some issues have been over looked, causing a short outage.
Do you have elaborate email filters? Fancy triaging systems? Does every alert open a ticket?
Not one big enough to cause another great extinction, but small enough to just turn a whole small country and parts of neighboring ones into a huge crater. Will the people who was evacuated out after NASA stated a warning try to rebuild the country after everything has settled down or do they’d become citizens of another...
Forwarded from our local amateur radio emergency group (for Ventura County):
"Are you registered with the Ventura County (VC) Alert - Emergency Notification System?
Ventura County's VC ALERT sends emergency alerts directly to registered residents. You can choose multiple contact methods and addresses for these alerts.
To sign up: Visit VC ALERT Registration.
Need help? Call (805) 648-9283 or email vc.alert@ventura.org."
In much of California, if you want to know about a wildfire or other imminent emergency, you need to sign up for emergency notification in advance. Where I live, in Santa Clara County, it appears that less than 10% of the population has signed up for http://alertscc.com and signup rates are similarly low in other parts of the state.
So I'm not going to second guess the emergency managers here, but here is the first EAS alert (not local alerts, but those sent via WEA) that I was able to find in my bot, which posts and archives ALL of these nationally. (time here is PT). The "alert polygon" does not include all of #Lahaina, only people in reach of cell towers in that zone would typically receive the message. This one posted at 1918 PDT, which is 1618 HAST (4:18pm). #Maui#Alerts#Analysis
#ProtonVPN is acting very strange, It works fine for a few hours (sometimes less) then start to put up #alerts; "Connection_Server" mostly?? Then it logs out and asks for my #password, That's always #rejected, Even after a #logout and #restart!?!? I've #reinstalled it multiple times and it keeps happening??!! Any ideas?? #protonvpn
Disaster alert accounts are preparing for a world after Twitter, due to the API limitations imposed
For years, Twitter has been a go-to for agencies that need to warn people during a rapidly changing crisis. The National Weather Service uses it to share hurricane and tornado alerts. Firefighting agencies tweet updates about where a blaze is headed. It’s sup ...continues
If you are in the UK:
This Sunday, 23 April 2023 at 3pm, there will be a national test of the UK #Emergency#Alerts service.
The message sent to #mobile phone users will be accompanied by a loud #alarm sound and inform you that 'you do not need to take any action'.
More info: https://www.gov.uk/alerts #UKEmergencyAlert IMPORTANT: Citizens Advice Bureau for people facing #domestic#abuse : “this will expose the location of your device, even if it’s on silent or if notifications are turned off'
What if a meteor hit us now? What happens after that?
Not one big enough to cause another great extinction, but small enough to just turn a whole small country and parts of neighboring ones into a huge crater. Will the people who was evacuated out after NASA stated a warning try to rebuild the country after everything has settled down or do they’d become citizens of another...
Ryan Hall Y'All - Live Stream - Current Emergency Weather Watch!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q032R3dzCtw...