Alert fatigue and the Guadalupe river flash flood

I have spent a couple of weeks in Kerrville in a little co-op RV park down by the Guadalupe river and two months in Boerne exploring all the Texas Hill country. (Never went to church camp there.) Lost Maples and Guadalupe State park and the towns along the way are places I visited many times. If you've been there, you have probably encountered many streets with "don't drown--turn around" very deep concrete ditches many of which too deep and steep to drive an RV or long truck with a camper. And I've seen rainstorms fill those completely full to overflowing.

I will not even mention the political and unscientific nonsense surrounding the tragedy. A couple of other issues have been touched on and one, the lack of early warning system in towns along the river, appeals to my local government wonk. The past disasters and flash floods did not prompt investment in warning systems. That is, whether we know it or not, a calculation of lives vs money. Government does that all the time or we would not allow driving at night.

The other issue is personal. My iPhone screams weather warnings, in Montana, in the winter, its cacophony wakes me up every time a snow squall crosses Interstate 90. So I turned it off. It seems to me that this alert fatigue is part of what happened this time. "We get flash flood alerts all the time". And "we had no idea this "kind of event" was possible" (meaning this dangerous) were two phrases I heard many times.

I want to know if the reservoir dam bursts. I don't want to be awakened when it snows in Montana.

Many of you live in tornado alley. I would expect you get alerts very frequently, probably more often than flash flood alerts in Kerrville.

Have you turned alerts off on your phone?