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Why emergency alerts carry impossible pressure

I manage our county's emergency alert system and I have to decide whether to wake up forty thousand people at 2am for a tornado warning that might miss us completely, knowing that if I do not send it and someone dies it is on me.

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You have to decide whether to sound an alarm that might save lives or turn out to be a false alarm, and either way you'll be blamed.

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