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  • S Slow Eddie

    Nothing beats a nap on a Sunday afternoon. :cool:

    Ed

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    In the days when I was young enough there certainly was.

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      The whole of Florida USA was woken up just after 4:00 AM this morning by the loud noise of an amber alert on their phones. It turns out the alert was "just a test"! A test that time of the morning!? They must either be very stupid or crazy! :mad:

      Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

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      Typical government behavior.And there probably won't even be an apology, let alone anyone getting disciplined or fired.

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      • C Cp Coder

        The whole of Florida USA was woken up just after 4:00 AM this morning by the loud noise of an amber alert on their phones. It turns out the alert was "just a test"! A test that time of the morning!? They must either be very stupid or crazy! :mad:

        Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

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        We have that here in Sydney. Australia, and missing person alerts.

        Graeme


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          The whole of Florida USA was woken up just after 4:00 AM this morning by the loud noise of an amber alert on their phones. It turns out the alert was "just a test"! A test that time of the morning!? They must either be very stupid or crazy! :mad:

          Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

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          Better than the Hawaii alert about a launched ICBM.

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            The whole of Florida USA was woken up just after 4:00 AM this morning by the loud noise of an amber alert on their phones. It turns out the alert was "just a test"! A test that time of the morning!? They must either be very stupid or crazy! :mad:

            Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

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            PIEBALDconsult
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            Oh dear. It's bad enough when a weather alert for an area of the state hundreds of miles away comes through. I have nearly all alerts turned off on my phone. I can look out the window for myself. When we were in L.A. last week someone "thought she smelled smoke" and pulled the hotel fire alarm at 04:00 one morning. :mad:

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              The whole of Florida USA was woken up just after 4:00 AM this morning by the loud noise of an amber alert on their phones. It turns out the alert was "just a test"! A test that time of the morning!? They must either be very stupid or crazy! :mad:

              Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

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              They broadcast this in the entire state?!? I think we have them only in the specific area/county of the emergency.

              Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.

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              • Richard DeemingR Richard Deeming

                Richard MacCutchan wrote:

                soon

                3PM this Sunday for the test. Hopefully slightly less chance of being woken up at that time! :laugh:


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                Just watch the accident rates - a siren goes off in your pocket at 80 on the motorway ... :~

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                  THe UK government plan to force this on us soon. It's nice to know they have nothing important to work on.

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                  I've disabled emergency notifications

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                    They broadcast this in the entire state?!? I think we have them only in the specific area/county of the emergency.

                    Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.

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                    I believe they can do it for an area, or for the entire state. This test was for the entire state.

                    Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

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                    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                      Just watch the accident rates - a siren goes off in your pocket at 80 on the motorway ... :~

                      "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                      Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter
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                      That's the reason they did it at 4 - most are in the bed still :-)

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                      • pkfoxP pkfox

                        I've disabled emergency notifications

                        In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

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                        I can only disable the sound. So this was done.

                        Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

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                        • pkfoxP pkfox

                          I've disabled emergency notifications

                          In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

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                          Thanks for the reminder, I think one phone going off per household is more than enough.

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                            The whole of Florida USA was woken up just after 4:00 AM this morning by the loud noise of an amber alert on their phones. It turns out the alert was "just a test"! A test that time of the morning!? They must either be very stupid or crazy! :mad:

                            Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

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                            Can't disable it? I can turn off all of these with the exception of 'Presidential Alerts', like I wanna see those X| .

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                              Can't disable it? I can turn off all of these with the exception of 'Presidential Alerts', like I wanna see those X| .

                              "the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle

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                              I can only disable the sound and have done so now!

                              Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

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                                The whole of Florida USA was woken up just after 4:00 AM this morning by the loud noise of an amber alert on their phones. It turns out the alert was "just a test"! A test that time of the morning!? They must either be very stupid or crazy! :mad:

                                Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

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                                rnbergren
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                                yep, we have those in the midwest as well. got a test one many years ago at 2am on a sunday. People were NOT happy. We(I) can turn off most of the notices. But still herself likes to get them. So I get to listen to hers get notices about the weather/amber/etc....

                                To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer

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                                  Just watch the accident rates - a siren goes off in your pocket at 80 on the motorway ... :~

                                  "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                                  OriginalGriff wrote:

                                  at 80 on the motorway

                                  I assume you mean 80kph - you wouldn't want to be seen encouraging illegal behaviour, after all. :laugh:


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                                    The whole of Florida USA was woken up just after 4:00 AM this morning by the loud noise of an amber alert on their phones. It turns out the alert was "just a test"! A test that time of the morning!? They must either be very stupid or crazy! :mad:

                                    Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

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                                    Sounds like they forgot to adjust from UTC to US East coast time.

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                                      yep, we have those in the midwest as well. got a test one many years ago at 2am on a sunday. People were NOT happy. We(I) can turn off most of the notices. But still herself likes to get them. So I get to listen to hers get notices about the weather/amber/etc....

                                      To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer

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                                      Cp Coder
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                                      In Florida we only really need them when a hurricane is imminent.

                                      Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

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                                        The whole of Florida USA was woken up just after 4:00 AM this morning by the loud noise of an amber alert on their phones. It turns out the alert was "just a test"! A test that time of the morning!? They must either be very stupid or crazy! :mad:

                                        Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

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                                        KarstenK
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                                        could be some bad joke from somebody who is p!ssed on by Ron DeSantis. :~

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                                          In Florida we only really need them when a hurricane is imminent.

                                          Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

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                                          rnbergren
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                                          we have tornados. Not sure which is worse. Hurricane much bigger and spawns tornados. But midwest tornados are huge and come out of nowhere.

                                          To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer

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