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>I can totally understand why Americans would want to silence these.

Oh, it gets better. We also, by default, get alerts for severe/extreme weather. Nothing like getting an emergency alert because a tornado touched down on the other side of the state, or a flash-flood warning while you're at home, 300' above the nearest body of water.

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That's really not at all fair, the NWS has put a lot of effort since the Joplin tornado into localizing warnings as much as possible to the affected area. They may geolocate the warning based on the tower rather than the phone, but that's still a long way away from "across the state". And you maybe should look into it, but flash floods have nothing to do with bodies of water. You could be 1k feet above a lake on the side of a mountain, but that mudslide caused by torrential rain might be a problem for you.

I live in North Texas, the weather alerts are pretty accurate here. With climate change, tornadoes and hurricanes are being pushed out of their natural places and regular seasons, and it's becoming normal for having a storm coming seemingly out of nowhere. We do appreciate here those alert broadcasts.

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