The article doesn't seem to mention it, but last week they accidentally sent out a mandatory evacuation order to all 10 million phones: https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/emergency-evacuation-alert-sent-to-residents-across-la-county/
I wonder how much that will dampen the effect of the real order if it comes. Colorado sends emergency alerts for so much- missing children and geriatrics, violence against cops anywhere in the state- that there's a lot of notification fatigue when we get the handful of wildfire alerts each year.
It's one of the fundamental problems of outrage-driven engagement and for profit news. Eventually people burn out and tune out. Then something important happens and people are ambivalent. Some people wallow in it and go bananas (see: fox News chuds) but the majority of people don't like being harangued by spectacle every goddamn day.
The article doesn't seem to mention it, but last week they accidentally sent out a mandatory evacuation order to all 10 million phones: https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/emergency-evacuation-alert-sent-to-residents-across-la-county/
I wonder how much that will dampen the effect of the real order if it comes. Colorado sends emergency alerts for so much- missing children and geriatrics, violence against cops anywhere in the state- that there's a lot of notification fatigue when we get the handful of wildfire alerts each year.
It's one of the fundamental problems of outrage-driven engagement and for profit news. Eventually people burn out and tune out. Then something important happens and people are ambivalent. Some people wallow in it and go bananas (see: fox News chuds) but the majority of people don't like being harangued by spectacle every goddamn day.