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Good but needs work
Fewer settings unable to connect family and friends
More confusing to use
I was getting alerts for a high wind storm on the old app. This new app did not alert until after the storm hit. I live in a rural area and 1 mile radius is not enough. I was at the nearest grocery store which is 10 miles away from my house. I do like some of the preparedness but do not need to scroll thru things that do not affect me such as hurricane volcano earthquake. I should be able to rate them or hide the ones that I don’t want to see.Show lessRural Ann
Good, to a degree
A year ago there was a tornado within 50 miles of us, and we live in the middle of pine forests where there have been wildfires, so we wanted a way to be notified. This seemed to fit the bill. But I find myself thinking about deleting it because I can’t tell you how many times it has blared a warning at 3:30 or 4:00 in the morning to tell me about a status change to take place 6 to 8 hours later. Scares the heck out of me when there is no need.Show lessSheGeezer
Inferior to what it’s replacing.
Update: have now disabled notifications because they occur in triplicate and at times are every couple of hours for the same alert. They have become a nusence. This app was prematurely released and should be pulled back.
Currently this product is inferior to the apps (Earthquake, Hurricane) it’s replacing. With the old apps I could set them up differently. You can’t do that under Emergency. Currently, I have the mile range set at 1 mile (default) for my location but am getting alerts for issues that are more than 25 miles away that have no bearing on my location. You can’t set mile range differently for the different types of alerts (earthquakes, weather). I don’t see alerts for shelter in place for chemical spills or smoke from wildfires. I hope these issues can be addressed.Show lessbcrsteve
Great but needs work on the locations/radius!
Great app, and I love the fact that I can monitor multiple things in just one app, but it needs some work! I wish the locations and radius were better, like in the Tornado app!! This app includes the entire county for a location, not just specific zip codes which I think is better!! Especially when dealing with tropical systems like hurricanes, as my inland area often has different advisories/watches/warnings than my county’s coastal areas (speaking from nearly 40yrs of living in South FL!)!!! Plus it doesn’t even include smaller towns, and you can’t even edit your radius!!!! I monitor all of my family’s locations (and I have a lot!), and some friends too. Well for instance one family member lives in the Upper FL Keys, and you don’t even have their island when I tried to add it! In the tornado app you do have their island, but this app doesn’t AND includes the Entire FL Keys when adding an Upper Key you do have!🤦🏻♀️ Which when dealing with tropical systems like I mentioned earlier is NOT good, especially as The Lower, Middle & Upper Key’s are often spilt into different watches/warnings!! So I would appreciate fixing that please, especially before hurricane season!!! Other than that great job!!!!👍Show lessAmber611
Won’t wake you if there is a tornado
With just a bit more tweaking this app could be perfect. I’d love a loud and continuous siren (maybe mimicking outdoor tornado alarms) to wake me if there is a tornado in the middle of the night. But there is only one notification tone and it is very polite.
Really love being able to filter out nuisance alerts like severe thunderstorms; We see them all the time and they’re not worth me being alerted to them. And settings retain across phone reinstalls which is fantastic.
But hey app developers, if the notification tones for the absolute worst emergencies are not configurable, many alerts will be missed.Show lessChris de Vidal
Returning to good
This app was fantastic a while ago. Then it eliminated all but four locations and made a number of other poor choices. I had to write a bad review (which I cannot find to edit) and give it one star. This made the app useless so I turned off all the notifications.
With this latest update, the app now allows enough locations that I can now monitor the locations of my loved ones. Notifications are back on.
Unfortunately, the connection to my contacts so I know who is at each location and the map of the locations with configurable radii of alert distances are still missing. Both of these are worth a star so I can only award three stars at this time.Show lessPJMc3
Newest update takes away a key feature
I just read in the latest update notes that you no longer will send push notifications when NOAA cancels an alert. This was actually a feature that set this app apart from many others I used in the past.
This feature is useful for many reasons when it is impractical to check the app (driving, working, sheltering-in-place, conserving phone battery during an emergency, etc.).
Please bring this feature back!Show lessChetdw
No longer useful
This app used to have the ability to set locations with certain people to notify or check in on them in case of harsh weather. Now this app only gives you locations and does no longer allow you to notify those people in those locations. I have received the same message multiple times in a day. This becomes very annoying.Show lessItzhy
WHAT HAPPENED??
I’m not sure why Red Cross did away with the previous UI. This version isn’t as user controllable as it used to be. If you looking for a great app for tornado and thunderstorm watches/warnings, Red Cross has another “Tornado” app strictly for those two occurrences… it’s exactly like this app used to be but condensed down to tornado and thunderstorms only which works well for me out here on the yellow brick road🌪🏡👠🧹Show lessBofromKansas!
This app has been ruined
The updated app no longer shows maps of my chosen locations. The maps displayed the radius I chose to monitor, and the alert area, when I clicked on an alert, or selected a chosen location. Now it shows only a map of my location no matter what location or alert I select. Plus useless scenic photos. To me this is a poorly thought out update. I think it shows a lack of common sense.
Please go back to displaying location maps showing radius monitored and alert area for each location I entered into the app.
The only good thing I’ve seen is the option to monitor my location outside the locations I entered into the app. Please keep this option, but return to displaying maps for the locations I choose to monitor. Show the monitored radius, as well as the alert boundaries for the locations I inputted to the app.
I can no longer recommend this app in it’s present version.Show lessBobLew9876
