FEMA Reviews – Page 7

Okay; Loses Location; Badge too Petdistent

ammPilot

Okay app, but loses location settings (and ToU agreement) with each update. App icon badge needlessly persists when warnings expire or are cancelled. Months after writing the above, still no fix for losing locations. Worse: it no longer takes an app update to lose saved locations.

They won’t fix it

Mr_Brown

I use the app for weather alerts and when it works it’s great. Some time ago the app stopped saving my locations and hence stopped sending me severe weather alert notifications. I wrote FEMA, they said they are aware of the problem and were working on it. Months later, it’s still not fixed. Several days of severe weather have passed and no alerts. Why should I trust FEMA to have a working app? I’m acting like severe weather is an emergency or something. :)

Wakes us in the middle of the night with minor alerts

Tbqcol

So the freeze warning was extended, or maybe some other fairly normal weather event gets reported, and the weather alert notification dings and wakes us at all times of the night. I like to keep the sound on for notification in case there is some real extreme weather developing, but I really don’t care to be advised that a freeze advisory has been extended at 2:15 am. I should be allowed to define what types of weather I consider critical or minor, and the notification with sound should only be used for what I define as critical events. A farmer may have different needs than a taxi driver or a builder or a writer of suspense novels, just to name a few. 95% of all the alerts are for things I either know about (I looked at the forecast, I can hear the thunder or the heavy rain, etc), or have a reasonable expectation will not affect me much (flash flooding typically doesn’t affect the places I go, beyond the fact that visibly heavy rain creates conditions for hydroplaning).

Only OK

FluffyRAM

The information is there, so that’s good, but generally the App is a little clumsy and doesn’t have the most intuitive UI. A couple of things I’d like to see the developer address please: 1. Notifications: if my App has a red number “badge” meaning there’s a (quantity of) new notification(s) in the app, this should be intuitive to find, and reflect the number. My expectation: red badge “2” = open app and see 2 new alerts. If an alert has expired and is no longer there, it shouldn’t be in the badge alert count. Thank you. 2. Request: it would be really useful to have a “share” button on the alerts. E.g. We run a small family rural Ag business and I try to share occasional frost Alerts with our customers (like a sudden frost after a warm spell or first frost of the season). “Share” would be great. I especially want to always share “do not burn” alerts on business Facebook page. Currently I take a screen shot, but the alert is usually longer than one screenshot. Thank you for reading and I hope these changes are possible.

What to do

Slither.io Commander

Warning systems are completely useless if people are unsure of what to do?. This changes that?. Under prepare, Emergency Safety Tips, their is everything you could think off and more. I am not just referring to tornado and lightning, but RDD and Landslides and more. The warnings are useful, the advice is useful and powerful.

What is the point?

Classicn2ition

I’ve recently downloaded this app and am missing many alerts because I feel I am constantly having to put in my location information every couple days. I have seen where there was a “bug fix” on this, but I am not seeing the fix. Developers? Anybody listening? I put in my location yesterday AGAIN, and then had to do it again this morning.

Horrible notifications.

vikodlak

The only thing I use this app for is weather notifications. A pretty basic feature of any app. For some reason l, and I don’t know if it’s the app or FEMA itself, they can’t seem to just send one notification. It’s annoying getting 10 winter weather warnings in 15 seconds. Just send one!!

One Alert is better than TWELVE

ReadySetFix

If a weather event is life threatening, it’s worth more than one alert... but we’re talking four alerts about light snowfall during winter. For the same storm, I probably get an average of a DOZEN alerts. Half of them contain the EXACT SAME INFORMATION with a shift in likely end time by... an hour? Please update this to make it worth having this app.

Decent app, but keeps losing locations!

ascetic

This app used to be (mostly) fine, I would have to re-enter locations occasionally, maybe once a month. Now it’s doing it nearly every time I get a notification and open the app. Then when you enter the location, it doesn’t show the alert because it was previously issued. Really, really annoying. From reading reviews here, I’m definitely not the only one with this problem.

Generally a good app, except for the "locations" problem, and leftover alerts.

Ponsonby Britt

Why do I have to put in my location, when that information is available from iOS? Every other app in the universe picks up my location automatically. If I want to add extra locations, great, but my default should be automatically picked. In many cases, alerts are time-limited. However, the little red number notification does not adjust. Most of the time when I look at the notifications, they have already expired. The alert count should be reduced when an alert expires. But it's generally a good app, and I imagine these problems will probably be fixed eventually.