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US National Weather Service Suffered 'Catastrophic' Outage; Website Stopped Sending Forecasts, Warnings (miamiherald.com)
jo7hs2 quotes a report from Miami Herald: On a day when a blizzard is pasting Maine and Northern California faces a dire flooding threat, several of the National Weather Service's primary systems for sending out alerts to the public have failed. As of approximately 1:15 p.m. Eastern Time, products from the National Weather Service ceased disseminating over the internet, including forecasts, warnings and current conditions. The Weather Service's public-facing website, Weather.gov, has not posted updated information since the outage began. Ryan Hickman, chief technology officer for Allison House, a weather data provider, called the situation "catastrophic." Hickman said two core routers for transmitting information from the Weather Service offices out to satellites, which beam the information back to public service providers, had stopped working. Hickman added that another backup system known as the Emergency Managers Weather Information Network (EMWIN) was also not operating.
Slashdot reader jo7hs2 notes: "The systems are back up as of Monday evening."
Slashdot reader jo7hs2 notes: "The systems are back up as of Monday evening."
Let me guess - the shooting incident at Sandy Hook Elementary School was filmed on the same soundstage where they faked the moon landings, right?
Please Google the 'Dunning-Krugar Effect' and note that there's at least 12 years of documented history and video evidence of the weak spot in the spillway.
There's real engineering here and there's people working today that weren't there 12 years ago that may well have not known about the issues documented prior.
There's no conspiracy here you nutter.
~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.
Don't most people consider weather forecasts "fake news" anyway?
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Where do you get your news, infowars.com?
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You mean Trump is a plague visited upon America to punish it for its iniquities? Of course! It all makes sense now!
Where do you get your news, infowars.com?
Funny you say that. While infowars wasn't reporting on it(until yesterdayish), sites like breitbart and very small media outlets were reporting about the dam being highly stressed and having a high chance of failure. This 3 days(you can find local CBS and Fox news stations having multiple articles on it) before the big media outlets were, and it was one of the top stories on /r/conspiracy on the 10th and 11 and how the MSM wasn't reporting on it at all. That the dam was over capacity and the chances of it failing were increasing by the hour. Lot of people were also left wondering why the media and officials dealing with the dam were saying "don't worry, everything is fine" at 12pm yesterday then suddenly issuing emergency statements at 5pm on the same day and evacuation orders and people "really needed to leave now." That was when the dam was overflowing on the emergency spillway already, and the primary spillway already had a gaping hole in it and the lake level was going up by 2ft/hr.
That of course meant the highways were suddenly packed with people trying to get out of the evacuation zones. Instead of say starting voluntary evacuations on the 10th, and then staggered evacuations on the 11th. It's not out of the danger zone by any stretch right now. There's no way they're going to lower the water level by 50ft by today/tomorrow and depending on how the incoming storm tracks they could see another 2-4' water rise. The entire thing reeks of either political individuals leaning on the team overseeing the dam because they didn't want to create a panic. Or a level of incompetence so staggering that it wasn't until a bunch of engineers marched up and said: "If you don't order evacuations, we'll go to the press right now."
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The neat thing about telling people about the 'Dunning-Krugar Effect' is its self feedback. A "low ability" individual thinks that he is "high ability". He is then sent to the Wikipedia article where he reads that "high ability" individuals underestimate their competence. Since he thinks he is "high ability" he figures "Ah! I have been underestimating my competence. I am even more competent than I thought."
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Is there any possible justification for withholding full details of the failure, in the public interest? If a bridge had collapsed instead, would it be possible to withhold details? Is it OK for this to just happen again at some random time?
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
In the situation you describe I would expect the shit-posting to intensify.
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Oh, it has, it has.
Yeah, but monkeys made it to space first. And they got the hairless apes to do all the hard work.
This article is about Weather.GOV (which is a US NOAA/NWS product) not Weather.COM.
Knowing how not to pay taxes legally is not a crime. We should celebrate it, because it is the proof that the IRS and Congress needs to re-write bit's of the tax code so that everyone pays the a proportion.
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It's about time they stopped disseminating over the Internet.
According to Rick Santorum (R, Accuweather), publicly-funded weather services should only be "switched on" when there's an emergency.