0 Alerts Are Best When Community Sourced
- Lert Info
- by Stuart Gunn
- 22-01-2020

Lert Info is about community and keeping people within those communities safer and better informed.
Although we have hundreds of official sources, the best information comes from YOU,our community.
- It's faster than most official sources
- It's incredibly accurate
- Can be updated in real time
- We can ask for information in real time during events
- Enables us to get accurate real time alerts to other members of the Lert community
A classic example was when a major hail storm endangered people from Timaru to Christchurch in December 2019. We issued an alert to subscribers over 30 mins before Metservice issued a severe thunderstorm warning.
By getting updates from dozens of people we were then able to forewarn those in line of the storm over the whole day. We were the only service to do so.
Fortunately no one was severely injured but thousands of cars needed extensive panel beating and some gutters and roofs were damaged.
You can play a crucial part by contacting us on Facebook messenger or emailing info@lert.info. We can then send alerts to subscribers. ( subscribe for free alerts.) Together we can keep each other safer.