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Tom Weber

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Journalist. Contrib Editor TIME. Priors: WSJ, Newsweek. Out now: my book “Cloud Warriors,” on people/science/ issues driving the future of weather forecasting amid climate chaos, St. Martin’s Press www.cloudwarriorsbook.com www.thomaseweber.com

  1. The problem isn’t that there is no way to alert residents. It’s that officials too often don’t use it.

    New from @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social @propublica.org

    www.propublica.org/article/ipaw...

    ProPublica has identified at least 15 major disasters since 2016 in which officials in the most-harmed communities failed to use a federal system to send emergency alerts to residents — or waited unti...

    Local Officials Have a Powerful Tool to Warn Residents of Emergencies. They Don’t Always Use It.

    ProPublica has identified at least 15 major disasters since 2016 in which officials in the most-harmed communities failed to use a federal system to send emergency alerts to residents — or waited unti...

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