Software glitch sends blizzard, fire warnings to thousands of Iowans

September 30, 2019 Carol Kuster State News 0

The private company that sends severe weather text alerts for many Iowa counties misfired this weekend. The company was conducting a software upgrade when blizzard and fire warnings were sent to phones in Iowa shortly after 3 p.m. Saturday. “It wasn’t supposed to be sent out to everybody, but something was wrong in the software […]