Author Topic: Presidential Alert Today 1418ET (Read 6722 times)

cordex · « **Reply #25 on:** October 03, 2018, 02:20:16 PM »

I just leaped from my seat, grabbed an improvised cudgel and ran into the hallway yelling "It's WAR!"

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #26 on:** October 03, 2018, 02:20:42 PM »

I just got the call. I was commanded to display the It's OK To Be White handsign to everyone I meet for the next 24 hours.

The Revolution is happening!!

TechMan · « **Reply #27 on:** October 03, 2018, 02:23:24 PM »

Just got it and I yelled "OMG We are all going to die." People are not happy with me.

just Warren · « **Reply #28 on:** October 03, 2018, 02:23:32 PM »

I was just instructed to vote to confirm Kavanaugh!

And I did!

Scout26 · « **Reply #29 on:** October 03, 2018, 02:23:58 PM »

Quote from: Hawkmoon on October 03, 2018, 02:15:58 PM

Gawd! (Or should I say "Mein Gott!") I'm old enough to remember what every Saturday at Noon there was a test of the emergency broadcast network. My father was in charge of coordinating attack alerts for our county, by virtue of his working for the telephone company and having been a Signal Corps officer in WW2. At Noon on Saturdays, EVERY radio station cut loose with a screeching tone best suited for a low-budget science fiction film, followed by an announcement that said something like, 'This has been a test of the national emergency broadcast system. If this had been an actual emergency, you would have received instructions to tune to a different frequency."

Simultaneous with the radio tones, every firehouse in the county (actually, in the country) cut loose with their sirens or horns or whistles, or whatever each fire department used to announce that they were going to be launching fire trucks imminently. All this cacophony went on unabated for one full, excruciating minute.

And now people are upset because they might get a message on their cell hones?

Around here it was (and still is) at 10am on Tuesday both sirens and TV/radio. Although the Chicago FD sounded all their sirens back in 1959 when the Sox clinched the AL Pennant and scared the hell out of everyone.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/chi-chicagodays-whitesox1959-story-story.html

MillCreek · « **Reply #30 on:** October 03, 2018, 02:41:05 PM »

I did the same as for the disaster drills at work: run up and down the halls shrieking 'I don't want to die a virgin!'. I get more action that way.

TechMan · « **Reply #31 on:** October 03, 2018, 02:43:26 PM »

Damn living rent free in their heads and right to their personal devices.

dogmush · « **Reply #32 on:** October 03, 2018, 02:47:58 PM »

So your phones didn't say "Execute Jade Helm plan 66"?

Huh, must have been just DOD phones. Gotta run....

Ben · « **Reply #33 on:** October 03, 2018, 03:28:08 PM »

Trump ordered me to start an avalanche.

just Warren · « **Reply #34 on:** October 03, 2018, 03:34:54 PM »

Quote from: Ben on October 03, 2018, 03:28:08 PM

Trump ordered me to start an avalanche.

? ? ?

TechMan · « **Reply #35 on:** October 03, 2018, 03:46:34 PM »

Quote from: Warren on October 03, 2018, 03:34:54 PM

? ? ?

I know he seems to be a Toyota guy now.

Scout26 · « **Reply #36 on:** October 03, 2018, 04:57:04 PM »

brimic · « **Reply #37 on:** October 03, 2018, 05:50:03 PM »

RocketMan · « **Reply #38 on:** October 03, 2018, 05:53:47 PM »

Huh, my company supplied iPhone 5s didn't get the alert. Everyone else around me did. I am disappoint.

AmbulanceDriver · « **Reply #39 on:** October 03, 2018, 06:25:05 PM »

*heh*

Our comm center has about a dozen iPhones for disaster failover for our phone system. Combined with the 10 or so personal cell phones, it was a helluva racket in here..... :D

Boomhauer · « **Reply #40 on:** October 03, 2018, 06:40:03 PM »

No alert...but an amber alert two states away at 3am? Haven’t missed one yet

The “Alertus” app that our work uses for sever weather/emergencies alert didn’t trigger either

Ben · « **Reply #41 on:** October 03, 2018, 07:01:00 PM »

I'm still blown away that I got it. I was on my way to a summit and still surrounded by peaks. I don't know where the hell the signal came from. Once I topped the summit and went no more than 100 yards down the other side, the signal was gone. Woulda missed my Trump-reich orders if I had started hiking 20min earlier.

That language was almost identical to what I used to get at fed.gov when we had continuity of operations drills (minus the presidential). I just got back to my condo so haven't looked up any lefty crazy talk yet. They have to be pretty disappointed at the innocuous language. I'm still betting that I'll easily find lots of "off the deep end" comments.

zxcvbob · « **Reply #42 on:** October 03, 2018, 07:35:40 PM »

I got it. Phone didn't screech as loud or obnoxiously as it does for Amber alerts (which I immediately turned off after the first one because it was for hundreds of miles away) I was hoping this one to include some generic Trumpism, like bigly or covfefe, without being silly or partisan.

Fly320s · « **Reply #43 on:** October 03, 2018, 09:03:41 PM »

Quote from: Ben on October 03, 2018, 07:01:00 PM

I'm still blown away that I got it. I was on my way to a summit and still surrounded by peaks. I don't know where the hell the signal came from.

According to this: http://www.city-data.com/towers/cell-Mammoth-Lakes-California.html there are 7 cell phone towers in that area.

freakazoid · « **Reply #44 on:** October 03, 2018, 09:09:45 PM »

Quote from: MikeB on October 03, 2018, 12:24:59 PM

I’m enjoying all the complaints about people being forced to accept “messages” on their phone from (insert various lefty names for Trump)! Many seem to actually believe Trump himself will be sending them messages on a regular basis or something and are freaking out.

That said, it’s stupid to call it a Presidential Alert. They should just call it an Emergency Broadcast like it is on TV’s and the Radio. It will be the same as the weather alerts and those amber alerts that show up on cellphones.

I think having it called the Presidential Alert is having the desired effect.

Didn't get any Presidential Alert, but I did get an earthquake soon alert around 2am; never felt it though as the center was much farther away. That will really wake you up though.

French G. · « **Reply #45 on:** October 03, 2018, 09:31:22 PM »

Phones are interesting in a cia in your pocket sorta way. I carry a Moto G4 with no service to use as a tool and wifi device. It gets the alerts. I now also occasionally use Google maps on it and I had assumed the phones were triangulating cell towers for the map. Well, I downloaded a map and headed off on a shortcut home. The damn thing was giving me very accurate turn by turn directions in Green Bank, WV where I assure you no cell tower reaches. GPS, pretty scary for a not activated Walmart phone.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #46 on:** October 03, 2018, 10:04:55 PM »

I have my previous phone as a dedicated bathroom phone (Wi-Fi only). It was, apparently, sounding off for hours, until I acknowledged the alert (and took a loyalty oath).

Anyone know if tablets and readers are getting the alerts, too?

Angel Eyes · « **Reply #47 on:** October 03, 2018, 10:08:03 PM »

Ben · « **Reply #48 on:** October 03, 2018, 11:04:31 PM »

Quote from: Fly320s on October 03, 2018, 09:03:41 PM

According to this: http://www.city-data.com/towers/cell-Mammoth-Lakes-California.html there are 7 cell phone towers in that area.

From what I can tell, they're all around 8000' or lower. There was a 10000' mountain between me and them. I must have gotten the signal after I broke 10K on the other end.

Doggy Daddy · « **Reply #49 on:** October 03, 2018, 11:34:13 PM »

Quote from: MillCreek on October 03, 2018, 02:41:05 PM

I did the same as for the disaster drills at work: run up and down the halls shrieking 'I don't want to die a virgin!'. I get more action that way.

A video of my bestest buddy with his band back a few decades. That'd be him on the geetar. Quite a conservative, and takes a shitton of crap from the lefties in the Columbus music scene. Perhaps you can shriek to the music next time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omZpjxTzXg8

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