Paragraph 1: A county emergency-alert system could send texts within minutes, but only residents who had registered their numbers received them. After a flash flood, officials learned that many new residents had never seen the registration page. [underlined]The county seal used on official stationery had been redesigned three years earlier.[/underlined] The county added registration prompts to utility sign-ups, school forms, and library-card applications. Paragraph 2: Officials kept the fast alert technology while improving the process that connected residents to it.