I just noticed that Hawaii County Civil Defense DOES have a Civil Defense Twitter page set up, and you can see it here:
http://twitter.com/Civil_Defense
It has only one message posted that is dated back to January 20th of this year:
“Vog Warning in Puna“
“http://twitter.com/Civil_Defense/status/1134558439“
Well “DUH” we always have VOG warnings… where was yesterdays Flood Warnings?
Why is the Twitter Account Locked so that only certain users get messages?
I just mailed the following letter off to county officials. I will wait and see what their response is.
1. I would like to know how many Hawaii County Residents have signed up for the $40,000 Phone Alert System that the County is paying for: http://www.hawaii-county.com/cd/message.htm
I understand this first year is free and subsequent years will be $40,000! This seems like a large chunk of change for something that has not been proven effective.
2. I would like to know where the Civil Defense warnings were that West Hawaii was flooding yesterday.
3. The only way I heard about the Flooding was through a Twitter Message put out by KWXX: http://twitter.com/KWXX/statuses/1201758225
4. Hawaii County Has A Civil Defense Twitter site… why is it not being used?
http://twitter.com/Civil_Defense
Thank you for any response you may help me find out,
Sincerely,
Damon Tucker
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