Amber alert madness

[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.

Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

[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.

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

― Christopher Hitchens

[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.

[Martin ISDN]

reminds me of the emergency drills they had in the USSR. probably they had some in the USA, too. just the US was not obsessed with the drills like the USSR. in the past 3 years the west has got a lot traits of the Warsaw Pact countries. sadly... Those that put *class* in JavaScript are the same that put *var* in C#

[jschell]

Three story building was evacuated one time until fire department showed up to clear it because someone failed to follow the instructions on the microwave popcorn that says to watch it.

[jschell]

Well hurricanes spawn tornadoes though...