ALSO | Austin police identify man fatally shot by officers near YMCA, release body camera video<\/a><\/p>\nWhat can be done to prevent warning fatigue?<\/p>\n
Dr. Lee Ann Kahlor, a risk communication expert and professor at UT’s College of Communication, says that building trust between agencies and the community can help mitigate or prevent warning fatigue.<\/p>\n
“People might feel this idea of fatigue because they don’t even know what these sirens mean anymore, right?” she said. “So by communicating to people what the threshold is for setting off the siren, it gives them some confidence like, ‘Oh, okay, this is serious because I know that the siren will go off if this is happening.”<\/p>\n
Dr. Kahlor also says information needs to be accompanied by a plan of action. <\/p>\n
“You also need to ask people to think in advance and have a plan,” she said. “Where is the higher ground? How will you get there? Who will you take with you? I think you can bypass people ignoring you if you’ve equipped them with all the information they need to really think carefully about the message that you’re sending them.”<\/p>\n
What do all the flood alerts mean?<\/p>\n
The National Weather Service outlines flood alerts into different categories, each with a differing level of severity.<\/p>\n
Flood advisories are the lowest urgency alerts. Heavy rain in the forecast could cause minor flooding, but it could escalate and cause significant damage. When an advisory is issued, affected areas should be aware and stay informed via trusted news and weather sources.<\/p>\n
A flood watch is a second-tier alert where flooding is not actively happening, but the conditions are favorable for flooding to occur. Affected areas should be prepared for a potential hazard to coalesce. <\/p>\n
A flood warning or flash flood warning means that flooding is imminent or actively underway. Residents should take action and seek higher ground or evacuate the area if safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 With Travis County and parts of the Hill Country under a flood watch tonight through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-372680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}