Massive emergency alert test schedule to hit your phone 10/4

[Tennesseer]

Massive emergency alert test scheduled to hit your phone on Wednesday. Here's what to know.

Get ready to not freak out. On Wednesday, Oct. 4 at 2:20 p.m. EDT, every TV, radio and cellphone in the United States should blare out the distinctive, jarring electronic warning tone of an emergency alert.

It's a test – only a test.

Officially, the trial is called the Nationwide Emergency Alert Test. You know it's a test and not an actual emergency because it's accompanied by an explanation of the test.

No, it's not a national conspiracy to infect people with nanoparticles. Yes, it does go back all the way to the Cold War in the 1950s. No, we can't play you the tone – we could get hit with a big fine if we did.

But mostly the test is an important way to make sure that if something really bad – and really big – happens, Americans can be warned quickly.

Here's what to know about the test:

What is the emergency alert test? How does it work?

Rest of article here: Massive emergency alert test scheduled to hit your phone on Wednesday. Here's what to know.

[toomuchreality]

I read that this was going to happen a week, or two ago. Ugh.
And if for some unknown reason they're unable to complete the test as scheduled, it will be done at a later date/time.

Even though I know this is going to happen, I also know it's going to freak me out, when it does.

[chiver78]

Oct 1, 2023 21:10:07 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Oct 1, 2023 21:08:33 GMT -5 Pink Cashmere said:

Is there a link or video or something? I don’t see anything.

Something happened in my original post. Had all the info you needed in it. Will post again.

I'm not sure what all happened, and I saw your request to delete the duplicate. since there's replies to both threads, I'm just going to merge them into one. 

-chiver mod

[Tennesseer]

Oct 1, 2023 21:24:05 GMT -5 chiver78 said:

Oct 1, 2023 21:10:07 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Something happened in my original post. Had all the info you needed in it. Will post again.

I'm not sure what all happened, and I saw your request to delete the duplicate. since there's replies to both threads, I'm just going to merge them into one. 

-chiver mod

Thanks.

[chiver78]

ooh....I did that backwards.      Pink Cashmere - I'm going to remove your "OP" and Tenn's duplicate "OP" for some general thread cleanup. I've tagged you here in order to keep your tie to this thread. sorry for any confusion! 

-chiver mod

[Pink Cashmere]

Oct 1, 2023 21:27:06 GMT -5 chiver78 said:

ooh....I did that backwards.      Pink Cashmere - I'm going to remove your "OP" and Tenn's duplicate "OP" for some general thread cleanup. I've tagged you here in order to keep your tie to this thread. sorry for any confusion! 

-chiver mod

I don’t even know what all happened to prompt this post lol. 

But whatever happened, I’m good and I know you did whatever to keep the boards in order, and as always I appreciate the work you and the other mods do behind the scenes.

[Spellbound454]

We had one of these a few months ago

I was in the Supermarket and it was quite interesting to hear everyone's phone buzzing

They didn't go off in alignment, some were later .... and some didn't go off at all.

depending on the provider I guess.

[jerseygirl]

Don’t have any confidence in the emergency alert system after 9/11. We live in north jersey family in NY son in NYC at the time.

Nothing came over for emergency alert that day when we could have used some information.

[Tennesseer]

Oct 3, 2023 10:37:02 GMT -5 jerseygirl said:

Don’t have any confidence in the emergency alert system after 9/11. We live in north jersey family in NY son in NYC at the time.

Nothing came over for emergency alert that day when we could have used some information.

9/11 was twenty-two years ago.

Also, it was all over tv and the radio in real time on 9/11. Few in the U.S. went to bed that night unaware of what happened that day.

[thyme4change]

Oct 1, 2023 21:17:42 GMT -5 toomuchreality said:

I read that this was going to happen a week, or two ago. Ugh.
And if for some unknown reason they're unable to complete the test as scheduled, it will be done at a later date/time.

Even though I know this is going to happen, I also know it's going to freak me out, when it does.

I set an alarm with a much less jarring tone for 5 minutes before it will happen. That way I will be expecting it. I will spread my freak out over the 5 minutes so when it does happen, I will be relieved.

[jerseygirl]

Oct 3, 2023 11:32:45 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Oct 3, 2023 10:37:02 GMT -5 jerseygirl said:

Don’t have any confidence in the emergency alert system after 9/11. We live in north jersey family in NY son in NYC at the time.

Nothing came over for emergency alert that day when we could have used some information.

9/11 was twenty-two years ago.

Also, it was all over tv and the radio in real time on 9/11. Few in the U.S. went to bed that night unaware of what happened that day.

Could have used information about what highways, bridges etc were closed or open. Mass transit, what trains were running etc

[Tennesseer]

Oct 3, 2023 13:02:51 GMT -5 jerseygirl said:

Oct 3, 2023 11:32:45 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

9/11 was twenty-two years ago.

Also, it was all over tv and the radio in real time on 9/11. Few in the U.S. went to bed that night unaware of what happened that day.

Could have used information about what highways, bridges etc were closed or open. Mass transit, what trains were running etc

9/11 was 22 years ago. Are you of the opinion we learned nothing from that day?

[jerseygirl]

Oct 3, 2023 13:52:21 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Oct 3, 2023 13:02:51 GMT -5 jerseygirl said:

Could have used information about what highways, bridges etc were closed or open. Mass transit, what trains were running etc

9/11 was 22 years ago. Are you of the opinion we learned nothing from that day?

No my post was just an observation

[Tennesseer]

Oct 3, 2023 14:38:26 GMT -5 jerseygirl said:

Oct 3, 2023 13:52:21 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

9/11 was 22 years ago. Are you of the opinion we learned nothing from that day?

No my post was just an observation

...of 22 years ago.

[thyme4change]

Oct 3, 2023 13:02:51 GMT -5 jerseygirl said:

Oct 3, 2023 11:32:45 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

9/11 was twenty-two years ago.

Also, it was all over tv and the radio in real time on 9/11. Few in the U.S. went to bed that night unaware of what happened that day.

Could have used information about what highways, bridges etc were closed or open. Mass transit, what trains were running etc

That would have been helpful - although not sure a closed bridge or down train is worthy of nation emergency - but should have been easily found info. Maybe a radio station? I don’t know if they could have commandeered a local tv station (besides cable public access - they could have dumped ‘dance off pants off’). And newspapers can only give information based on what they knew at printing. It must have been very frustrating.

Luckily with the internet now things can be updated in almost real time. They won’t need to do a push notification- but certainly can deliver all that type of information.

[teen persuasion]

Oct 3, 2023 13:52:21 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Oct 3, 2023 13:02:51 GMT -5 jerseygirl said:

Could have used information about what highways, bridges etc were closed or open. Mass transit, what trains were running etc

9/11 was 22 years ago. Are you of the opinion we learned nothing from that day?

Wellllll, it feels like we are going backward sometimes.

We had a big bad winter storm just before Xmas. It was predicted a week in advance, plenty of warning on tv weather forecasts, and they were scarily accurate. But we STILL had 40-some deaths, because people were unprepared (went out in the storm to get diapers or food), and because employers insisted workers come to work (storm hit at 10am) since the county exec didn't preemptively close roads. Blizzard of 77 was much worse, and fewer people died then, w/o all the tech we have now.

There's been lots of local studies done to figure out what went wrong, and most of it revolves around no coordinated emergency alert to push notices out to people's phones, because apparently no one watches tv news anymore and walk around blithely unaware all the time. 

Personally, I think some of the people who had bad outcomes during the storm just didn't listen to the forecasts/warnings, probably thinking "Eh, it's Buffalo, we aren't afraid of snow. I'll be fine!" and went on their usual way.

[jerseygirl]

Oct 3, 2023 21:45:18 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

Oct 3, 2023 13:02:51 GMT -5 jerseygirl said:

Could have used information about what highways, bridges etc were closed or open. Mass transit, what trains were running etc

That would have been helpful - although not sure a closed bridge or down train is worthy of nation emergency - but should have been easily found info. Maybe a radio station? I don’t know if they could have commandeered a local tv station (besides cable public access - they could have dumped ‘dance off pants off’). And newspapers can only give information based on what they knew at printing. It must have been very frustrating.

Luckily with the internet now things can be updated in almost real time. They won’t need to do a push notification- but certainly can deliver all that type of information.

Alerts are normally local not national. On 9/11 the NY tv stations snd many radio stations weren’t working cause many were located in the towers. It was terrifying , most people were at work and needed info on how to get home. Many bridges were closed. Emergency vehicles were on highways so problem to use the main highways
Yes the internet solves many problems!

[Tiny]

There's been lots of local studies done to figure out what went wrong, and most of it revolves around no coordinated emergency alert to push notices out to people's phones, because apparently no one watches tv news anymore and walk around blithely unaware all the time.

My employer will send a txt (or phone call voice mail) blast to employees with office closure info (or any other sort of emergency info). There's a detailed plan identifying who decides to send the blast and then who and how it's done.

My City has something similar for information about upcoming events as well as emergencies -  but residents have to "sign up" for the service with their cell phone, land line, or email address.  It's not a popular service.  It's ok.  I signed up and I find the blasts helpful and informative.   I can avoid a parking ticket/tow after a big snowfall - cause I KNOW if I can or cannot park on the street for example (I got a call about it in plenty of time to find other parking arrangements).  my neighbors not so much (even when I tell them what I've heard from the city).   Some people are just walking "self fulfilling prophecies"  - the City sucks! I always get tickets! and I'm NOT ever doing anything to avoid those tickets! The City is out to get me!     I love my neighbors.  
 

I think people still watch TV - it's just that most TV stations are no longer "local". I no longer have a local TV station. In the past it use to cover just the local area (the big City and collar suburbs). Now the weather includes outlooks for places 40 or more miles from my house. It runs severe weather warnings for storms that will not come anywhere near my home. It covers "general news" as well to appeal to it's wider audience - no more local coverage of local community/suburban happenings.    (oh gosh - my BFF and her mom where huddled in fear in their basement with the TV on for HOURS one bright sunny day because storms and tornados were happening 30 miles away and the TV showed non stopped coverage of the warnings/watches and then the damage/results.  They thought we would get that same weather and it was too dangerous to go outside.    I attended a local outdoor festival that day because we had reasonable weather - it never clouded over, it didn't get windy, it didn't rain.  IT was a lovely day to be outside.   We where too far from the edges of the storms to be effected by them. )

[Tennesseer]

Oct 3, 2023 21:45:34 GMT -5 teen persuasion said:

Oct 3, 2023 13:52:21 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

9/11 was 22 years ago. Are you of the opinion we learned nothing from that day?

Wellllll, it feels like we are going backward sometimes.

We had a big bad winter storm just before Xmas. It was predicted a week in advance, plenty of warning on tv weather forecasts, and they were scarily accurate. But we STILL had 40-some deaths, because people were unprepared (went out in the storm to get diapers or food), and because employers insisted workers come to work (storm hit at 10am) since the county exec didn't preemptively close roads. Blizzard of 77 was much worse, and fewer people died then, w/o all the tech we have now.

There's been lots of local studies done to figure out what went wrong, and most of it revolves around no coordinated emergency alert to push notices out to people's phones, because apparently no one watches tv news anymore and walk around blithely unaware all the time. 

Some people are just plain stupid and done plan. Deaths occur.

Personally, I think some of the people who had bad outcomes during the storm just didn't listen to the forecasts/warnings, probably thinking "Eh, it's Buffalo, we aren't afraid of snow. I'll be fine!" and went on their usual way.

We had the blizzard of '78 in the mid-Atlantic and New England states. Weather warning were just local.
I worked at the BDL (Hartford/Springfield) Airport. I worked the evening shift including getting our aircraft out and on to Memphis. My shift started at 3p.m. My boss called around 1:30 p.m. and told me not to come into work because of the weather.

Snow flurries outside at the time. I told my boss flurries are no problem working in. Boss said "Trust me-just wait." Well it did get worse. So much worse the airport wad closed Tuesday through Saturday. Interstates were closed that long too. Housebound all that time. Glad to get back to work even if it was a Saturday.

[Opti]

Oct 3, 2023 11:32:45 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Oct 3, 2023 10:37:02 GMT -5 jerseygirl said:

Don’t have any confidence in the emergency alert system after 9/11. We live in north jersey family in NY son in NYC at the time.

Nothing came over for emergency alert that day when we could have used some information.

9/11 was twenty-two years ago.

Also, it was all over tv and the radio in real time on 9/11. Few in the U.S. went to bed that night unaware of what happened that day.

I was home because I had an appointment in prep for sinus surgery. I saw it on TV in the morning and they reported what they knew which wasn't much in the very beginning. The emergency alert system back then was geared toward storms, not terrorist caused disasters. I think back then it was a TV and radio based system. The first Iphone did not get released until 2007.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mobile_phones_introduced_in_2001

[toomuchreality]

Oct 3, 2023 11:56:37 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

Oct 1, 2023 21:17:42 GMT -5 toomuchreality said:

I read that this was going to happen a week, or two ago. Ugh.
And if for some unknown reason they're unable to complete the test as scheduled, it will be done at a later date/time.

Even though I know this is going to happen, I also know it's going to freak me out, when it does.

I set an alarm with a much less jarring tone for 5 minutes before it will happen. That way I will be expecting it. I will spread my freak out over the 5 minutes so when it does happen, I will be relieved.

I set an alarm on my phone too. But I'm easily distracted, if there's something else going on. So My alarm will go off and then I'll be startled a few mins later, followed by realizing that I knew it was going to happen.
I hope everything goes well, when they test it, so we can feed assured and don't have to do it again real soon (practice).
However, if it doesn't go well, I'd rather find out during a practice run, then find out something went wrong, during a real emergency.

[toomuchreality]

Does this feed like an elementary school fire drill, to anyone, besides me?

[teen persuasion]

Oct 3, 2023 22:09:28 GMT -5 Tiny said:

There's been lots of local studies done to figure out what went wrong, and most of it revolves around no coordinated emergency alert to push notices out to people's phones, because apparently no one watches tv news anymore and walk around blithely unaware all the time.

My employer will send a txt (or phone call voice mail) blast to employees with office closure info (or any other sort of emergency info). There's a detailed plan identifying who decides to send the blast and then who and how it's done.

My City has something similar for information about upcoming events as well as emergencies -  but residents have to "sign up" for the service with their cell phone, land line, or email address.  It's not a popular service.  It's ok.  I signed up and I find the blasts helpful and informative.   I can avoid a parking ticket/tow after a big snowfall - cause I KNOW if I can or cannot park on the street for example (I got a call about it in plenty of time to find other parking arrangements).  my neighbors not so much (even when I tell them what I've heard from the city).   Some people are just walking "self fulfilling prophecies"  - the City sucks! I always get tickets! and I'm NOT ever doing anything to avoid those tickets! The City is out to get me!     I love my neighbors.  
 

I think people still watch TV - it's just that most TV stations are no longer "local". I no longer have a local TV station. In the past it use to cover just the local area (the big City and collar suburbs). Now the weather includes outlooks for places 40 or more miles from my house. It runs severe weather warnings for storms that will not come anywhere near my home. It covers "general news" as well to appeal to it's wider audience - no more local coverage of local community/suburban happenings.    (oh gosh - my BFF and her mom where huddled in fear in their basement with the TV on for HOURS one bright sunny day because storms and tornados were happening 30 miles away and the TV showed non stopped coverage of the warnings/watches and then the damage/results.  They thought we would get that same weather and it was too dangerous to go outside.    I attended a local outdoor festival that day because we had reasonable weather - it never clouded over, it didn't get windy, it didn't rain.  IT was a lovely day to be outside.   We where too far from the edges of the storms to be effected by them. )

"Some people are just walking "self fulfilling prophecies" - the City sucks! I always get tickets! and I'm NOT ever doing anything to avoid those tickets! The City is out to get me!"
Yep! That's it, exactly! Unfortunately, dozens DIED because they didn't listen.

Our 3 local news stations cover my 8 county region, plus 2 PA counties on the fringes. We have a pretty complicated forecast, because of so many micro climates in the region. Well, ski country will see lots of snow, and the Southern Tier will be 10degrees cooler than everyone else, the Erie lake shore will be windy, but not the Ontario lake shore (or the ever present lake effect snow from one lake but not the other, depending on wind direction), showers in the Southtowns but sunny in the Northtowns...
So depending on where you live vs work, you can drive thru 4 seasons in the day. Or, something not forecast for your part of the region might just shift and affect you anyway.

[thyme4change]

Oct 4, 2023 4:31:33 GMT -5 toomuchreality said:

Does this feed like an elementary school fire drill, to anyone, besides me?

Valuable, but lame at the same time? And way less traumatic than an active shooter drill.

I have heard that this test sound will activate the nano-particles that were injected into us as the Covid vaccine. Everyone who has been vaccinated will suffer greatly. They will also shed those nano-particles, so if you are not vaccinated you shouldn’t be anywhere near them. And the sound carries radiation that will seep into you, so you should lock your phone in a secure place and go to an empty park and be outside. Today is day that they are all proven right!!

[teen persuasion]

Oct 4, 2023 10:52:13 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

Oct 4, 2023 4:31:33 GMT -5 toomuchreality said:

Does this feed like an elementary school fire drill, to anyone, besides me?

Valuable, but lame at the same time? And way less traumatic than an active shooter drill.

I have heard that this test sound will activate the nano-particles that were injected into us as the Covid vaccine. Everyone who has been vaccinated will suffer greatly. They will also shed those nano-particles, so if you are not vaccinated you shouldn’t be anywhere near them. And the sound carries radiation that will seep into you, so you should lock your phone in a secure place and go to an empty park and be outside. Today is day that they are all proven right!!

[Tennesseer]

Oct 4, 2023 4:29:46 GMT -5 toomuchreality said:

Oct 3, 2023 11:56:37 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

I set an alarm with a much less jarring tone for 5 minutes before it will happen. That way I will be expecting it. I will spread my freak out over the 5 minutes so when it does happen, I will be relieved.

I set an alarm on my phone too. But I'm easily distracted, if there's something else going on. So My alarm will go off and then I'll be startled a few mins later, followed by realizing that I knew it was going to happen.
I hope everything goes well, when they test it, so we can feed assured and don't have to do it again real soon (practice).
However, if it doesn't go well, I'd rather find out during a practice run, then find out something went wrong, during a real emergency.

You must be hungry. In replies 20 and 21, you wrote "feed" instead of 'feel'.

[daisylu]

Mine went off a 2:18

[ken a.k.a OMK]

2:18 here too.

[chiver78]

mine didn't make any noise at all. 

[daisylu]

Oct 4, 2023 13:29:35 GMT -5 chiver78 said:

mine didn't make any noise at all. 

Mine did not either, just vibrated and lit up with the message. Which is weird, because the local alerts (mostly Amber) always have that beep, beep, beep, emergency broadcast sound.