• M0oP0o@mander.xyz
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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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      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.