SAME code 040027 for Cleveland County, 040087 for McClain County and SAME code 040109 for Oklahoma County in Central Oklahoma for example. The SAME codes are generally on a county geographic level, ie. TW or Cox or Comcast or whatever, have no way to differentiate the Specific Area Message Encoding codes down to where individual subscribers are located like a NOAA Weather Radio/All Hazards Radio can. The problem is that cable TV systems generally cover a large geographic multi-county area and apparently the providers, ie. The idiotic government machine hard at work. Not all thunderstorms warrant the "severe" title, but they all get the same treatment- interrupting paying customers viewing experience too often, too loud, and most of the time for NO REASON. What that means is that for MOST viewers these messages are all "crying wolf" and most of the time ANY THUNDERSTORM is considered "severe" to these people. The really stupid part is when there are NO THUNDERSTORMS within 50 miles. The really annoying part is that they come up one right after the other, the same message, with sometimes only a couple minutes in between. These alerts go on for minutes and the entire time they are on the screen you are unable to watch TV. When these "emergency" notifications pop up they are twice as loud as any other sounds the channels make, there's a computer voice that comes on that sometimes is so staticy or overlapping that you can't understand it. It is absolutely ridiculous how and when it is implemented. Here's what I want to know, what government bureaucracy is responsible for that alert system for supposed "severe thunderstorms".
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