B.C. declares state of emergency.
B.C. declares state of emergency.
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"residents are being directed to an interactive map"
This seems problematic, do they not have emergency broadcasts anymore?
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Agreed. They should leave legacy fail proof technology in place.
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I wounder if someone sold them on a bunch of "efficiencies" by dropping radio, tv and whatnot in favour of a web based solution? And now that I think on it, was Canada not listed lately as having some of the worst rural cell/internet infrastructure in the world?
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Are you telling me we pay the highest in the world for mobile plans AND have the shittiest cell infrastructure. Jesus christ..
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Yes. Essential services with bloated prices and really low reliability.
But think of the profits shawgers is making for their shareholders! Mission accomplished!
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I have 200mb of data and it turns off when I run out. If I ever get caught in an emergency, I'm screwed.
Plus, half the time their website seems to crash.
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How do you operate on 200mb data? You might as well not have data at this rate. You can watch what, like a few minutes of video before your data is up? That's some serious BS, assuming you're in Canada.
I'm in the US, haven't seen a phone plan with less than unlimited anytime recently, although I know they exist. Ironically, even my ISP has a data cap (1.2TB/mo last I checked), but my phone plan doesn't (but does throttle after a while).
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Just don't watch video on data.
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I live in Kelowna and am just on the edge of an evacuation alert area and I don't have a radio or cable so I can't say if those exist but the map is helpful.
Been checking that thing ever 5 minutes today...
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It doesn't work on my phone. Also they're not making it easy to find. It should be a giant link right at the top of every article, instead it's regular size text buried in the middle of the article.
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Also they're not making it easy to find.
I googled "emergency alert map Kelowna" and found a really great candidate.
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Install the app
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Glad it is up and working for you. good luck.
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