How Emergency SMS Could Have Helped Suriname

Read ' Suriname Flooding: An Eye Witness Says Capital Received Alert Late'.

Consider that a SMS message could have been sent while everyone was trying to get the alarm to work.

Millions being spent world wide for disaster communication, and nobody wants to go with the cheapest solution that integrates into existing emergency communication and replaces ancient things which, by their nature, are allowing more damage than necessary. Consider that an SMS system could be set up far more cheaply than all the money for research being done.

Consider that the concepts of the Alert Retrieval Cache have been successfully used in other parts of the world. A computer server, with Asterisk...or even adjusting/creating emergency phone numbers within the present infrastructure.

Realize how simple this could be. Look at how complicated they make it. Look at how the complication is costing lives, inconvenience, and property damage.

If you have the time today, go slap a regional disaster management person at CARICOM, or any number of countries, or a NGO, or someone else spouting nonsense about studies needing to be made, ad nauseam¹.

Sad.

if you slap someone, you do it of your own volition and I cannot be held accountable. I might, however, approve and may even applaud.