Even though many idiots will run down to the shore, having a siren would at least get the local law or safty enforcers to get people out, not to mention the non-idiots. Minutes before the tsunami hit the shore retracted and to many people they had no idea something bad was coming. Tourists may not have any idea that this was out of the ordinary.
People will still ignore the warning and those people would have to deal with their choices. But a family of five on vacation thinking this is a natural occurance would at least get the chance of heading for higher ground and to safty. On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 08:12:10 -0700, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Incoming from Jarrod Major: > > > > One of the points of this concept is making it decentralized and > > non-governmental. This would eliminate the possibility of a Governement > > stepping in and preventing this information getting out to the people it may > > I thought it was well known that warning people about a tsunami was a > dangerous thing in itself. Too many idiots will run down to the sea > shore to see it for themselves. > > -- > Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. > (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Please don't Cc: me. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
