EAS Alert - Flood Warning Intrusion (KUSA-Denver, CO - Sat. 9/14/2013)
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- Breaking News Footage from the Mid-September Colorado Floods. I wanted to share this to:
a. Provide proof of the City of Aurora's (home of Archive HQ) irritating tendency to unilaterally shoot off the civil defense sirens without warrant, and...
b. Give an example of our kinda whacked, inefficient EAS system.
This was recorded on VHS (don't laugh) because I sensed that the EAS was going to go off at any moment and it was much quicker for me to grab a tape and hit record than to drag out my laptop and transferring gear, so I apologize that the quality isn't stellar.
Recorded from KUSA-TV in Denver, Colorado on Saturday, September 14, 2013 between 4:25 and 4:30 P.M.
And yes, the civil defense sirens near Archive HQ were wailing away just before this recording.
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Considering the sirens are designed to be a universal "go inside and tune to media" alert, blowing the sirens was appropriate considering the amount of rainfall occuring and what was happening in the mountains. Always remember that. To you, with access to media, the sirens are "irritating", but to the people outside without immediate access to information, that's their queue to seek shelter. Sirens like that alert people to dangerous situations. Sure, they're loud. They're obnoxious. But OEM doesn't just blow them because they like to push the shiny button, they blow them because there is an immediate threat to public safety.
As far as EAS suddenly cutting off abruptly, it's not unusual. Once the EAS message is broadcast, it will typically return to the broadcast live feed, especially when it is a news channel (EAS gets the alert and basic info out, news media fills in the rest). The EAS worked as designed: break in, provide the alert, return to broadcast. I hear the same thing whenever I'm listening to the radio during Tornado Season. Their standard programming gets interrupted, EAS tones go off, the NWS duplex feed plays, then it cuts and drops to the live broadcast of the radio station. It's not designed to provide a clean handshake or a "Now back to your regularly scheduled programming" prompt.
Brad McGarr get out right now
This flooding will never be forgotten.
Between each of the tones, I hear the header and attention tones in the background, faintly, almost as if a microphone was left on in a room with speaker output while said output was also playing EAS broadcasts... XD
travelsonic flashbacks to November 2011
Of the dozens of EAS alerts over the week, each one cut off abruptly like this at right about the same point.
ArchiveAnnex whats with the text of the eas? And why is the text in Spanish
Here in Colorado, the second most common language used after English is Spanish. Therefore the Emergency Alert screen is displayed in both English and Spanish.
If you follow the NWS/BOU (National Weather Service, Boulder) on Twitter, you’ll see that whenever they issue a warning, it’s Tweeted in both English and Spanish.
This is the EAS I see always
Same I always see dasdec
I remember seeing these on tv.
While my birthday happened.
5 times.
IN. A. ROW.
Tragedy...
I remember this very well because I was activated while at work
Chris Tenorio you were activated
I Remember This When I Was In Denver Colorado
Precautionary preparedness action
south western denver,north east littleton,englewood,aurora and commerce city turn around dont drown without 10 second during floods
The vhs never existed that time
Well it's not zombies, but flooding is dangerous as well...lol. Not sure if we have services like this in Canada where I live.
Yes, the Alert Ready system.
These always used to scare me, even now, as i am 13 years old. The part i always hated about them is that they had like a 15 second pause and then they did the alert tones. I still hate these.
It's not fun being flooded, but I have to say anyone who tries to drive through floodwater is too stupid to live. There's a show from British TV where some guy tried to drive the wrong way down a closed motorway to get home, and my husband has footage from the time our estate (but thankfully not our house) was flooded, complete with a now-amphibious BMW. Considering that a week before that another beamer had written off his Clio, he considered the sight God's wrath against idiots in big swish German cars and placed it in a prominent spot in his music video set to Take That's The Flood.
Anyway, we in the UK don't have any kind of similar system. The way to tell whether you're in danger or not is when a smug BBC presenter turns up in a yellow mac and starts twittering about climate change.
These ain’t British this is Colorado and I don’t get floods too often or tornadoes
The alert begins @ 0:50.
The cable box cut the message off early.
what about fort collins,colorado springs,idaho springs?
At 0:55 you could hear voices in the eas
Possibly because quality then was really bad
Why was the alert wording on the TV screen in Espanol?
Riley Smith not EVERYONE speaks ingles
Very smart MAN!! Recording it on a VHS tape!! Good job seriously ! To get the original version of the news coverage and the EAS ! Very smart! At least ya could've record another one on Weatherscan with an EAS ! Lol if the weatherscan was still here :-)
Do ya have an NOAA weather radio to catch on the same alert on radio & tv or did ya just that'll happen on tv ? (EAS) .
and what about alamosa
0:43 wat was dat???
It was a weather alert "music bed" for the station. They use the NBC Chimes to alert for new weather warnings.
Hey can I possibly use the audio of this video for a EAS recreation video. I will give you full credit.
no
i havent seen that before
0:43 Anyone know what that chime was?
a variation of the famous NBC chimes. KUSA is Denver's NBC affiliate.
2:55 beep
0:53
Captial
0:43 keep on tapping this dont let the vid play
He will say bruh
1:06 lol it's in spanish
Im so scared of these warning sounds i have these mi warnings id rather live in ontraio morre
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