Comments on: Are Hurricane Categories Citizen Friendly? And Does Media Give Too Much Attention To ‘Hurricane Holdouts’ Rather Than Those Who Follow Warnings? http://incaseofemergencyblog.com/2009/07/01/are-hurricane-categories-citizen-friendly-and-does-media-give-too-much-attention-to-hurricane-holdouts-rather-than-those-who-follow-warnings/ A Citizen’s Eye View of Public Preparedness Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:57:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Memo To ‘Color Alert’ Task Force: Put Your Citizen Hats On, Design With/For Public, Integrate Into Overall Citizen Preparedness Program, Consider All-Hazards Approach (Maybe Starting With H1N1), Replace Changing Colors With Consistent Communic http://incaseofemergencyblog.com/2009/07/01/are-hurricane-categories-citizen-friendly-and-does-media-give-too-much-attention-to-hurricane-holdouts-rather-than-those-who-follow-warnings/comment-page-1/#comment-40058 Memo To ‘Color Alert’ Task Force: Put Your Citizen Hats On, Design With/For Public, Integrate Into Overall Citizen Preparedness Program, Consider All-Hazards Approach (Maybe Starting With H1N1), Replace Changing Colors With Consistent Communic Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:33:59 +0000 http://incaseofemergencyblog.com/?p=2760#comment-40058 [...] (particularly when a “pandemic” was declared and nothing changed). Similarly, as Amanda Ripley among others have pointed out, the U.S. hurricane categories are not as helpful alerting impacted communities about the severity [...] [...] (particularly when a “pandemic” was declared and nothing changed). Similarly, as Amanda Ripley among others have pointed out, the U.S. hurricane categories are not as helpful alerting impacted communities about the severity [...]

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