Amber alert madness

[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!

Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

[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.

Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

[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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[Sander Rossel]

Greg Utas wrote:

let alone anyone getting disciplined or fired

Like all of us here got disciplined or fired for every mistake in our code (that undoubtedly made it to production)? :rolleyes: Luckily, the world doesn't work like that.

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[haughtonomous]

Got your attention though, didn't it? In that sense it proved something useful.😉

[haughtonomous]

I guess that when Putin cracks and presses the button, you'll never get the warning, and never know why it all ended.😉

[PSU Steve]

Actually... Official: Florida has severed its contract with company responsible for errant alert[^]

[WPerkins]

I like the prime time ones. If we are sitting in the den at 9pm watching TV and a gray Toyota drives through - it does not matter what the license plate is on it - I'm calling the cops. I don't need an alert for that.

[MikeCO10]

Yeah, I've never made a mistake in system management, ;) . The company is losing their contract as a result since Ron (Mr. Perfect :laugh: :laugh: ) DeSantis has so ordained it. I'm not saying it wasn't a really dumb error, but let he who hath not sinned cast the first stone?

[englebart]

Weed smoke?

[trønderen]

PIEBALDconsult wrote:

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.

Around here, people complain if the weather forecast isn't on target three days ahead. The forecast reaches eight days ahead, but we all know that the further ahead, the less reliable. Usually, we get the wind, rain and cold in the (approximate) order forecast, but it often is delayed or comes earlier than suggested in the long-time forecasts. The view from my window isn't great, but I don't know of anyone with a view where they can see the weather three days ahead, and certainly not eight days.