[LINK] No cash for phone alert system

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Richard and Lea write,

> Yes - the human element. As Stil noted, we have to be prepared to turn
> in our geek cards, and admit that wetware is a requirement in emergency
> management, and we can't reasonably expect any technology to replace
> people ..
> 
> >> And - we need to accept that we will never have zero losses 
> >> from major calamities - We can only aim for loss minimisation,
> >> so we only lose a small amount of people and property ..


So, from Link informed discussion .. can we draw any conclusions?  What
can we realistically do, if anything(?) to help prevent dozens of people
being burnt to death (eg Kinglake) in bed through lack of communications?

If we can't agree on ideal even-in-part-tech-solutions? maybe a wet-ware
community-emergency plan which is very widely known and agreed upon? I'm
not aware of any such community plan even in my tiny-pop900 country town.

Seems we can & should learn from this, and do something, whatever it is?

Cheers,
Stephen