that's because of a phenomenon sometimes referred to as overalerting. and this happens and has happened to me when you get an alert that has no real connection to your location. instead the alert is about a storm or some other event at a nearby neighborhood or even a distant community. receiving an irrelevant message isn't just an annoyance. it undermines the effectiveness of the entire wea system by causing people to tune out all alerts. this has serious public safety consequences as we've seen over the past weeks and months. for example, as louisiana was drenched by catastrophic floods this august, officials used wea to send out at least six flash flood alerts. but as our communications security, reliability and inoperablity ground, the alerts went unheeded by tens of thousands of people. residents ignored the messages because they previously received flood alerts that only applied to homes within a traditional flood zone. this time around, people assumed that the alert was not for them since their home had never flooded before. in the end, over 30,00

but the problem with overalerting is limited to cases which many people are receiving messages. the opposite is also true. citizens and public safety officials alike are opting out of the system altogether. for instance, the city of cialis is a quote doesn't use than five because of over our burden. the city houston since it has shied away from using wea because of the high likelihood of overalerting. harris county, texas, reported chose not to wea during recent disasters solely due to significant concerns over the granularity of alerts. millions of people who live in these communities could miss out on potentially life-saving information because wea's current brushstroke is too broad. that's why the public safety community has said enabling more alerting is the single most important action the fcc can take to make wea relevant for first responders. after studying the record and speaking with officials including those in new york city, i agreed that we need to do more than simply codify the status quo. so i proposed to my colleagues that we be more forward leaning, and we commit