DHS ending color-coded security alerts

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Color-coded threat system to be replaced in April

Washington (CNN) -- The much-maligned, color-coded Homeland Security Advisory System is about to be consigned to the proverbial dustbin of history.

Not that anyone is really paying attention.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is expected to announce Thursday that the almost 9-year-old threat alert system will go away in April. It will be replaced by the new National Terror Advisory System that will focus on
specific threats in geographical areas, a department source said Wednesday.

The source did not provide details of the new system, which Napolitano will unveil at what the department is calling "the first annual 'State of America's Homeland Security' address" at George Washington University.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/01/26/threat.level.system.change/index.html?hpt=T2

[krispos42]

1. Stan Smith will have to get a new 'fridge

[slackmaster]

2. The Handicapper General is doing her job. The color system discriminated against color-blind people.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

3. My husband has a personal alert system I gave to him

Cantankerous
Surly
Onery
Poopy
meh

[Swede]

4. Orange alert!

[Drale]

5. They used to have a sign with the alert levels by our town hall

but it blew down in a storm about a year after they put it up and they never fixed it.
"Be very careful out there today, we're at terror alert orange! Which means something might go down somewhere in some way at some point in time. So look sharp!"

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6. here's a pic