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Re:B.C. government hit tweet limit amid wildfire evacuations by briffle on Thursday July 13, 2023 @10:57AM (#36710205)
This can also be a disaster, as most municipalities don't have the infrastructure and redunancies to handle the huge spikes in traffic that emegencies can require.

My city 2 years ago sent an emergency alert text to everyone in the area that our water was tested as not safe to drink, and a link to their website for more info. The site was hosted on their server, in their server room in their main city hall. (Capital city, >250k residents). The web site was completely unaccessable for days.... Not even something like cloudflare, or any kind of CDN for caching..

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Re:B.C. government hit tweet limit amid wildfire evacuations by mistrial9 on Thursday July 13, 2023 @12:39PM (#36712038)
how about this - one of the most deadly fires in California history was the one that destroyed the poetically-named town of Paradise. There is basically one road out of a small town surrounded by rugged hills. There have been fires there before. SO the County Sheriff teamed up with a private company to REQUIRE payment from evey citizen for an early warning system. That early warning system DID NOT WORK on the day of the deadly fire! It is well-documented.
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