Generally, nerve agents are not gasses they are liquids. The V series agents (i.e. VX) are persistent, non-volatile liquids meaning that they don't evaporate or produce vapors at a significant rate. The G series agents (i.e. GB aka sarin, which was used in the Tokyo subway attack) are also liquids. They are much more volatile and produce harmful vapors, but they are liquids at room temperature not gasses.
As an emergency management professional I assure you that we FANTASIZE about having a way to rapidly notify our citizens of emergencies that could affect them. Yes, the Emergency Alert System is a great tool, in fact, every time I give a presentation on disaster preparedness I urge people to get an EAS receiver, but I would estimate that less than 3% of the households in our community own one and, of those, less than 25% are in use and have a backup battery installed. While the capability to send a message to text-capable devices probably isn't THE solution it would be another tool in the toolbox and potentially a very useful one. If you aren't going to take some personal responsibility and put together a disaster kit and buy an EAS reciever then at least let us TRY to help you. When a train derails in your community sending a cloud of toxic vapor into nearby neighborhoods (as hapened here a few years ago) I hope you have the capability to notify your citizens before its too late.
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Generally, nerve agents are not gasses they are liquids. The V series agents (i.e. VX) are persistent, non-volatile liquids meaning that they don't evaporate or produce vapors at a significant rate. The G series agents (i.e. GB aka sarin, which was used in the Tokyo subway attack) are also liquids. They are much more volatile and produce harmful vapors, but they are liquids at room temperature not gasses.
As an emergency management professional I assure you that we FANTASIZE about having a way to rapidly notify our citizens of emergencies that could affect them. Yes, the Emergency Alert System is a great tool, in fact, every time I give a presentation on disaster preparedness I urge people to get an EAS receiver, but I would estimate that less than 3% of the households in our community own one and, of those, less than 25% are in use and have a backup battery installed. While the capability to send a message to text-capable devices probably isn't THE solution it would be another tool in the toolbox and potentially a very useful one. If you aren't going to take some personal responsibility and put together a disaster kit and buy an EAS reciever then at least let us TRY to help you. When a train derails in your community sending a cloud of toxic vapor into nearby neighborhoods (as hapened here a few years ago) I hope you have the capability to notify your citizens before its too late.