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New Yorkers are warned from the skies about impending danger from storms as city deploys drones

Gone is the bullhorn. Instead, New York City emergency management officials have turned high-tech, using drones to warn residents about potential threatening weather.

With a buzzing sound in the background, a drone equipped with a loudspeaker flies over homes warning people who live in basement or ground-floor apartments about impending heavy rains.

“Be prepared to leave your location,” said the voice from the sky in footage released Tuesday by the city’s emergency management agency. “If flooding occurs, do not hesitate.”

SGGeorwell ,

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FlyingSquid ,
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Why? Were sharpies not working?

catloaf ,

Is the existing emergency alert system not sufficient? It already activates TV, radio, and cell phones.

grue ,

Not to mention, what’s wrong with plain old sirens on poles? I refuse to believe that drones are somehow cheaper to buy/operate/maintain.

Buelldozer ,
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what’s wrong with plain old sirens on poles?

No cameras on them and they don’t normalize the idea of police drones buzzing around your neighborhood.

grue ,

That is a very good point.

finley ,

because if you set off a siren like that, all of the Orthodox Jews will assume its the Sabbath and run home.

see, they already do this every Friday just before sundown to mark the beginning of the Sabbath, so…

edit: this may just be limited to Williamsburg/Bed-Stuy

ggppjj ,

We can assume an amount of people in NYC that have no access to any of those.

It’s not a bad supplement to existing systems.

Bonesince1997 ,

No. You need the government flying machines outside your window to let you know about your freedoms.

ChocoboRocket ,

My tinfoil hat theory is that Drones are far better at mass surveillance than current emergency alert systems, so while the advantage over the existing emergency alert system is probably negligible - it opens the door for people accepting having drones everywhere and constantly overhead which is the real goal.

For a second layer of tinfoil, having a strong drone presence (production, infrastructure, technology) in the economy seems like it will be very useful for future wars. Whoever has the largest and smartest swarm wins

clearedtoland , (edited )

We’re really bringing the most dystopian science fiction to life, aren’t we? Does art imitate life or…?

Skua ,

Warning people that are in danger from incoming dangerous weather seems like a good idea to me. We need to stop fucking up the climate to reduce the amount of dangerous weather, yes, but it's sensible to protect people from it until we do that (and of course, even if we never did anything to change the climate, sometimes it would still be dangerous)

FlyingSquid ,
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I think the worry here is that if they are already using drones to monitor weather, what else are they using drones to monitor?

I don’t live anywhere near NYC, but I do know Adams was a cop, so I wouldn’t trust him to just use city drones for helpful reasons.

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