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Can the app get alerts outside the USA?
I’m curious about if the app can get alerts outside of the USA? Would be a great bonus for tourism. I know the Red Cross is international. Would be a great app for our military bases overseas to be able to shelter in place on military bases. Does the Red Cross provide apps similar to this for military bases in other countries?
Just be careful with the app. For example tonight it failed to send me any notification that strong winds were coming to my area. I got into the app to check my settings. Turned out wind warnings were turned off. Finally figured out the app didn’t think I had any Internet connection when I did. I wouldn’t be able to write this comment about any Internet connection. If you’re not getting any notifications from the app double check your Internet connection. And double check the app itself is seeing the Internet.Show lessJohn Goodin
Truly annoying!
I have this app set up for several different areas in the country where I have family and friends that I I’m concerned about the weather and other events in their areas. I swear this app pops up a notice about the same thing about every 10 or so minutes before writing this I just cleared over a dozen notices I’d received in the last hour for three of the locations. Before I could even tap the star rating three new alerts popped up from the areas that I just cleared. you need to adjust the only time that these alerts come out is upon initial issue upon notification of change of this condition or cancellation of the alert. This every 10 minutes repeat thing makes me want to delete your app which is counterproductive to notifying people of events could cause potential harm to life and property. If a fix doesn’t come out soon, I am likely going to just delete this app.Show lessSnip€hunter
Emergency Storm Radio
Some people have reviewed the app saying it’s too loud even when they turn the volume down on my phone. If I’m about to get blown away by a tornado or some other emergency, I expect it to be loud and wake me up or disturb me when I have my phone on quiet. A great app to have there’s several different settings for things like hurricanes, tornadoes, natural disasters you can pick the events you want to be notified about. I live out in the county where we don’t have any tornado sirens so this is a personal tornado siren.Show lessstudmuff-n
Alerts
I set this app up because we just moved to East Tennessee & my daughter said I should have it.
I set it up not knowing that the alert goes off every 11 minutes( which is ridiculous). We're over 65 & I get it, we should be aware of what's happening. That alert went off and was LOUD!!! After about 4 hours . I tried to change the range (mileage of how many miles away it reports) but the app has no where to change it. So trying to sleep(every 11 minutes) I said I can't take it I gotta get some rest. I changed the alerts and put like the other lady before me only critical!!! I ENDED UP DELETING THE APPLICATION AS IT WAS DRIVING ME CRAZY 3:00am STILL TRYING TO GET SOME REST. After deleting the app the alert was still sounding. WHY? How do I get it totally off of my phone?
I'm exhausted today thanks to your app that's supposed to help us...Show lessDacheer
Don’t bother downloading
I had such high hopes for this app. I liked that I could monitor our home while also simultaneously monitoring our son, who is away at college. But it turns out that almost nothing it shows us is consistent or valid.
The app is truly useless.
About a month ago, my husbands phone began to blare the tornado siren sound. The app showing we were under a tornado warning. Yet my app showed nothing except the previous watch.
I refreshed, then deleted and reinstalled, but it still didn’t show a warning. How dangerous that could have been if we had been in the path and I was home by myself.
This has happened a few times, with minor weather issues. We have had a wind warnings but nothing alerted on the app. Or we were under a tornado watch but the app showed no alerts.
Then tonight, my husbands app began to blare again saying our town is under a warning.
While we are under a watch, it’s expiring soon and there’s zero rain, no wind, nothing inclement. And the tv news has no warning for us. Once again, it malfunctioned.
App is being removed as soon as I post this.Show lessCadcmmngs
How awesome this app is!😎
This app is so cool bc it helps you stay safe, no one to take cover, and you can put in your location so it can track all severe weather warnings and such in your location, specifically and others. If you’re worried about a family member, you can download this app type in their address and you can get all of their weather alerts for their area. It also has lots of info on air quality.. that is very important and needed and most other apps don’t have that. I know this app is special but one of the most things that make it so special is that it has a prepare section on the app. All the to do for you and how to prepare for what’s about to come in your way of whether. I’m not same page. It has a tool kit!!! and finally it has locations section on the app and you can add your location or family members locations or other peoples locations and know all the weather alerts there and all the different type of alerts you might need in that area. I love this app so much because it helped me so much in the past and has helped my family and I prepare for anything coming our way! Thanks for reading my opinion on this app!!! You HAVE TO GET IT! ✌️✋👋 peace out!Show lessJassy spott
Could be great with a needed improvement
Love the way this app consolidates emergency info for our location and those we care about.
Living in tornado country (is anywhere not tornado country now?), I appreciate the loud realistic tornado sound. At least the first time it goes off. I don’t appreciate it the second, third, fourth time for minor updates. I especially don’t appreciate it going off to tell me the alert has been cancelled.
On option to mute the loud siren alerts for a few hours after the first time one responds to an alert would be great. Go ahead a notify me but with a pop up or chime. I don’t need to be awakened with an ear splitting alarm to be told the alert has been cancelled. Without this feature many will tur the alerts off completely and then forget to turn them on for when they are really needed.Show lessW122ard0f
Killing this Annoying App
Just got completely sick of the incessant obnoxious alert tones for weather that has passed the area. Yes, I’d reduced the alert area radius, but it still includes whole counties even if only a tiny portion is included in an area no longer threatened that may be part of a given radius. Furthermore, I don’t need a dozen alerts telling me a storm is no longer a threat. If the threat is no longer, then why the urgent tones blasting to tell the threat has passed on a frequent basis. Once is enough! No ability to determine the exact area (not radius determined) as with the use of SAME codes on a normal weather radio. This app has potential, but its execution is ill thought out.Show lessThe tater!
Alerts needs some work
I like the app, but the alert sounds are driving me crazy. I think there may be some bugs in the system. The alert sound is VERY loud, even when I have my phone on low volume or on silent. I’ve been getting multiple alerts over and over for the last 24 hours for the same snowstorm. Last night, I went on and turned sound alerts turned off except for critical alerts and today I am again (with my phone on silent) getting extremely loud alerts. They are now labeled ‘critical’ but there is no difference between the alerts I was getting yesterday. Even changing snowfall from 4-7 inches to 6-9 inches (or vice versa) shouldn’t warrant a new critical alert.
I want to turn the alerts completely off, but am then afraid that I will miss a new, critical, alert such as a tornado warning when the season comes.
Critical should be immediate and life threatening. Period.Show lessFAD Mom
Spams your phone constantly over nothing
I installed this because the far-superior Tornado app is being discontinued. This worthless piece of junk immediately started blowing up my phone every day, sometimes twice a day, with screeching emergency notifications complete with siren because of a “heat event” (temperatures over 99) that is being forecast for more than a week from now.
Noisy, intrusive notifications EVERY DAY, not because of an approaching tornado, not because of an imminent severe thunderstorm, but just because the weather is going to be a little hotter than usual more than a week from now. The app treats every little thing like a screaming emergency — after all this crying wolf, it is useless for a real emergency. And turning off notifications defeats the entire point of having the app.
Typical that the excellent Tornado app is thrown in the garbage so it can be replaced with a useless showpiece like this one that was put together with absolutely no idea of actual utility or of genuinely making people safer. But hey, someone’s crony got a fat contract out of it and who cares about those rubes in flyover country anyway, right?Show lessMonsta_0
