Grandson got it right! baseball game: “it on BSEN….
Grandson got it right! baseball game: “it on BSEN.”
Actual Tornado video with #WEA alert sounding in t…
Actual Tornado video with #WEA alert sounding in the background! washfm.com/player/?mid=23…
Warning Myself – Tornado Warnings from IPAWS
I recently wrote an application to pull the actual full alert connected to Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) sent through IPAWS for counties in Virginia’s First Congressional District (where I live). The program then blog/tweets the details (http://va1stipaws.alertblogger.com). It is just a test app, but the NWS is posting actual alerts to the test environment I am monitoring. I was in my upstairs office when I got a tweet from @VA_1st_IPAWS of a tornado warning. Clicking on the blog revealed a tornado warning with my office in the direct path. So I went downstairs for safety (where I am now).
But,of course I never got the actual WEA, because I have an AT&T iPhone, and they have yet to work out issues with Apple. So, it looks like I will either have to go with a different carrier who has, or will have to go Android. PITA, to say the least.
Update: No damage to my home. Lots of trees down close by. Nice to be warned so I did not go out some where.
Lots of weather alerts tonight. WEA qualified aler…
Lots of weather alerts tonight. WEA qualified alerts are also on alerts.grandpaham.com and @Ipawsalerts (my test accts)
Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) as a Disaster Recovery Tip
WEA is alive and operational in a big way. The big carriers are fully up and running, as are many of the smaller ones. Currently working with some folks in Puerto Rico. Just finished with some folks serving Mississippi. Both will be ready for hurricanes this summer.
I also saw a nice description of WEA as a Disaster Recovery Tip on the Agility Recovery Web site. Check out:
http://blog.agilityrecovery.com/bid/96992/Disaster-Recovery-Tip-23-What-you-never-knew-you-had
A word on IPAWS http://t.co/HkRO2Ek2vl via @wordpr…
A word on IPAWS wp.me/p36yb4-1w via @wordpressdotcom
“Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words c…
“Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can make me believe I deserved it.” Brilliance from xkcd.com
IPAWS Alert Twitter Feed Exceeded Allowed Number of Tweets
I had to stop the test blogging and tweeting through alerts.grandpaham.com and @ipawsalerts yesterday. The blog was holding up, but the combined effect of a serious weather day (pray for the folks in Oklahoma) and some heavy use testing in TDL by some developers caused my processes to exceed the 1000 tweet per day limit on Twitter. So, I will need to do some breakup into multiple Twitter feeds (geography and/or message type based) before I restart it all. More later.
Check http://t.co/5AVc8U3Q5Z. Actual NWS weather a…
Check alerts.grandpaham.com. Actual NWS weather alerts are being auto-blogged from the IPAWS test environment. Tweeted to @Ipawsalerts
