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* Severe weather warnings in general. Especially in the countries where the [[Emergency Broadcast]] systems were originally developed for [[Atomic Hate]] and [[The End of the World As We Know It]], that the systems were coopted into not only peaceful use but that they (despite being a [[Most Annoying Sound]] and an example of [[Hell Is That Noise]]) often provide timely warning of severe weather has saved many lives. If you want to know just *how* many lives have been saved by these, compare the [
** See also the [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/National_Weather_Service_bulletin_for_New_Orleans_region NWS bulletin for New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina]. This is [[OOC Is Serious Business|remarkably strong wording for an NWS broadcast]]--the report on the hurricane credited it with speeding the evacuation considerably. I live two thousand miles from New Orleans, and it gave me the chills when I read it.
*** If you can't read it for some reason, here's what it basically says: that skyscrapers will sway dangerously, some knocked down, that people, pets and livestock would be killed by winds, that almost ''every single home in the hurricane's path'' would suffer near-complete or complete structural failure... it's no wonder that it worked.
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