The Government Shutdown Made it Harder for Officials to Warn People About a Potentially ...
An “outage” prevented the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, which is tasked with warning Americans about dangerous weather conditions, from providing any new information on triggered tsunami warnings down the East Coast, officials said. Susan Buchanan, the acting director of public affairs at NOAA’s National Weather Service, said the website “experienced an outage due to a heavy load on the servers” early Tuesday after a magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck off Alaska’s Kodiak Island, prompting officials to issue tsunami warnings ...
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