Amber alert madness

[englebart]

Better than the Hawaii alert about a launched ICBM.

[PIEBALDconsult]

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:

[Single Step Debugger]

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

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[OriginalGriff]

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

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[pkfox]

I've disabled emergency notifications

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[Cp Coder]

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

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[Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter]

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

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[Cp Coder]

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

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[Lost User]

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

[jeron1]

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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[Cp Coder]

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

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[rnbergren]

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....

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[Richard Deeming]

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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[obermd]

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

[Cp Coder]

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

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[KarstenK]

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

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[rnbergren]

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

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[David Crow]

I power my phone off during sleeping hours. Making oneself accessible to notifications 24/7 is nonsensical.

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[Cp Coder]

Yes, but we have a daughter living with us and she works the late shift at a grocery store. She typically gets home after midnight. We need to sleep with phones on in case she has some emergency and needs us.

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[GuyThiebaut]

Just switch off emergency alerts on your phone. Although I am considering being present in Tesco on Sunday when everyone else's phone goes off and then proceed to run around babbling "We're all going to die!" Goodness knows what is going to happen on the roads when a bunch of drivers reach for their phones to switch off the loud alarm.

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