After the intense last few days, we can look at what just happened with the recent storm and assess what we can improve to keep subscribers better informed. 

It will be weeks before roads open, but the biggest impact will be for those families that lost loved ones, their homes, pets, damage on farms and summer fruit orchards and so much more. Our thoughts are with you. 

The map shows 27 live alerts as of 10:30 am Saturday, Jan 23rd. 

At the height of the storm, we had 58 live alerts at one point. Overall, we issued 70 alerts, if you include the run-up to the storm. There will be a upto 10 follow-on alerts with updates.

Speed and efficiency of messaging is vital at these times.  AI has proved extremely helpful. 

We also tried a new system for this event, which further improved our efficiency.

Sometimes we miss occasional events that need an alert because there is so much going on. A key thing is power, and you can set up your own quick go-to button on your phone for your power company.  -  Open the power company's outage page and save that link to your phone screen. In furture with one tap, you will go straight to that page.