In all seriousness and with full compassion,
An AMBER Alert was just issued for a child abduction that took place in Nescopeck Pennsylvania and extended to all of NY State with a call to be on the lookout for a Silver Hyundai Elantra, LIC# HKB-4681. I’m not delusional enough to think this blog will be of any help in this particular case; Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) has that covered. But I do feel compelled to ask that you quickly check the optional settings on your wireless device in order to be sure you are set to receive such alerts. See the WEA site here and scroll to the bottom to find your carrier.
AMBER is the acronym Americas Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response and is dedicated to Amber Hagerman who was abducted and murdered in Austin Texas, in 1996. The monster who committed the crime is hopefully in hell being tortured for eternity, but nobody knows for sure. As a result of the catastrophe (actually there is no noun in existence to characterize such a crime), progress and development of a public notification system has taken root and grown stronger and more comprehensive over the past 20 years (timeline here).
As of January 1, 2013, AMBER Alerts over the WEA system have been available. Make sure yours is on. Also, AMBER Alerts are live on Twitter using the handle @AMBERAlert. With only 35.7K followers, why not help bolster that # ?
Later…
