

You couldn’t even be bothered to read the article could you?
Here’s a fun fact for you. Outdoor sirens can be heard by people, regardless of the status of their electronic devices.
As the article states. Texas seems very willing to spend enormous sums of money on disaster recovery, but very little on prevention, as the mentioned siren system was shut down in the Texas Senate for the reason of “too expensive”
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/06/texas-disaster-warning-emergency-communication-bill-kerrville-floods/
The technology isn’t unreliable. It’s a question of implementation. It’s a question about money and how much you want to spend refining and improving the software controlling it and surrounding sensors.