San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency light rail vehicle (Credit: AP/Alison Yin)
By infrastructure-hacking standards, the overnight triggering of the Dallas storm-warning system on April 7 was relatively benign.
Starting at about 20 minutes before midnight more than 150 sirens across the city of 1.3 million people blared periodically, alarming residents in this tornado-prone part of the country.
Worried that something was amiss, locals overloaded the city’s 911 emergency-calling system, causing what could have been harmful delays, while officials scrambled to figure out what was going on. They shut down the system at 1:17 a.m. and worked overnight with West Shore …read more
Source: Salon
