Should Ontario invest in tornado sirens?

[Notre.Dame1003]

Stumbled across this online. They kinda shoot down the idea of sirens, but still interesting nonetheless.

http://globalnews.ca/news/1418404/shoul ... do-sirens/

[clm 10 12]

I think it's a good idea. The idea of using a system that sends out warnings to Facebook, Twitter, or cellphones is absolutely silly, because some people, like me don't have any of those. Though if any towns do get sirens, they would probably get ATIs.

[Model2]

Social media seems to be the top priority of emergency information in this country. Read this:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/bri ... le6972950/

There seems to be this idea everyone is always on social media and it's the best tool to notify the public. It's not exclusive to Ontario in this case, but also BC. I can't find the exact article, but BC officials were downplaying the 2012 tsunami warning debacle on the CBC and calling it a success as they sent a tweet.

Anything to do with sirens has always been, and will continue to be, shot down in Ontario. Even at a time when every community had an air raid siren during the cold war they still didn't use those sirens for tornadoes. This comes even after the outbreaks of the 70s and 80s. We've come too far down the road to start being reliant on sirens in this province, and focus should really be geared towards a mandatory participation emergency alert system through all television and radio, and eventually wireless emergency alerts to cell phones. Any instance of a siren will be strictly voluntary and up to local municipalities should they ever actually follow through with discussions.

I've said this before and I will say it again: for any actual development of an emergency alert system of any method in Ontario will take a damaging tornado moving through a populated area producing serious loss of life. Until then we'll continue to sit as we have always sat with emergency preparedness as something talked about from time to time, but followed through with except for rare occasions. 2009 was the last case of the provincial government moving along with storm warning dissemination and even that came through the now defunct red alert program based off social media via Emergency Management Ontario. They managed to screw it up so badly they discontinued it by 2012.