E-ALERT. Yesterday IGSU sent a code orange warning to Bucharest for severe weather, more precisely electric discharges and rain, plus hail, but the alert came much too late compared to the unfolding of the events. In my case, the warning message received from RO-ALERT arrived only after the strong thunder and lightning stopped, and the way in which these warning messages are sent remains a very big problem.
E-ALERT. I don't know if the message arrived late because it was sent late by the authorities, or if the IGSU employees sent it late because they received it late, or if they waited for the weather phenomena to unfold. Even so, for Bucharest the warning came after the weather phenomena had passed, so RO-ALERT was completely useless for some of those who were affected by these meteorological phenomena.
RO-ALERT. The city of Bucharest WARNED of DELAY by IGSU
E-ALERT. I also didn't understand why iOS displayed the alert in a notification that spanned the entire screen, but that's probably a bug from the operating system, and not something to do with how the notification was made. . Going over that, RO-ALERT was completely useless yesterday for many of those who live in Bucharest, even though the system should have warned a lot of people before the weather phenomena happened.
E-ALERT. On the Facebook page of those from ISU Bucharest - Ilfov, there are many people who are complaining about the fact that the message arrived an hour after the meteorological event itself ended. This makes me understand that the infrastructure used to send the messages is the problem, and that the alerts are sent very slowly to the large number of people, which makes the system completely useless, unfortunately for all of us.
E-ALERT. If the problem is really with scaling the system to a very large database, and from a technical point of view the system is unable to alert everyone in a timely manner, then someone should answer for it.
