Emergency Alerts

[zcaveman]

The Villages is located in three counties. All of TV is in a very small section for the county that they reside in. For those of you that registered for the emergency alerts in your county do you get meaningful telephone calls for your area of the county or do you get alerts from all over the county?

I live in TV in Marion county and I have my emergency radio set for all three counties and most of the alerts I get do not even come close to my area.

I do not want to register for the emergency alerts if they do not apply to my direct area.

What are your experiences with the emergency alerts?

Thanks,
Z

[rubicon]

Don't get me started:blahblahblah:

I subscribe to Comcast and they do a periodical emergency Alert drill...and it seems when I am watching the Master's. a little rainstorm forms and every channel shuts down and the weathermen hijack the channel ad nauseam

[Madelaine Amee]

What are your experiences with the emergency alerts?

Thanks,
Z

We are signed up for emergency alerts and I think they are excellent. We are in Sumter and if the weather is deteriorating we get a recorded phone message and that's it. But, it is enough to alert you to the fact that something out of the ordinary is going on.

[HMLRHT1]

The alerts over the emergency alert radios are for each county. So if something is going on in far northeast Lake County it will still come out for Lake County in general. Same for Sumter and Marion. They include the names of the towns that are part of the alert. It can be a pain in the butt, but if the storm is headed toward you that is extra time to get prepared.

[HMLRHT1]

The phone alerts from at least Sumter County is more a specific area like just TV or TV and Wildwood. Try it, you can always cancel it if you don't like it. Better to have too much awareness than not enough though.