It is very likely that I was not the only person who did not get the national Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) test on Oct. 3. I have no idea how they can possibly follow up to understand where and why failures happened.
Personally I'm a "one bar" guy in the building that I work in. I've set my phone to use the Wi-Fi feature for making phone calls — thus, maybe that was my personal issue.
It will be interesting to see what they share back with the broader emergency management community in the form of an after-action report.
Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.
