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What failed was local officials not succeeding in alerting people — in large part because they had plan or mechanism available to do so with the roughly one-hour warning that current meteorology can provide for specific flash floods like this.

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[–] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Last year we had heavy rain. Every time the flash flood advisory was extended, a new "wake the dead" alert went out. These alerts ignored my phone's audio settings and were very loud.

After around the 7th alarm between, iirc, 3 pm and 10 pm I disabled the alerts. I was too on edge by the idea of another alarm to fall asleep.

I'm not sure I turned those alarms back on.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Fine, they're back on. But I'm only allowing Extreme alerts. The flash flood updates were Severe alerts and I'm not dealing with that bullshit again.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Foam mattresses float. Just keep a bottle of water and a hand axe under your pillow 👍

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I sleep in a hammock, but I'll keep a pool noodle nearby. If my second floor bedroom on a hill floods then I might actually be able to get out of my not-to-modern-code high bedroom windows without using my step stool.

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