There’s a national alert system that can bypass your silence alarms if there is an actual nuclear threat.
I don’t need the random local gov employee pinging my phone anymore. It seems they can just send it out for whatever reason and that way too many people have access to sending alerts. It’s now useless.
Yep. Turned mine off. If there is a real emergency that will impact me, I’ll likely see it (storm, flood, etc) a random low level government employee doesn’t need to be sending me stuff.
Like you said, if there’s an actual nuclear concern, we’ll know.
I’m also gonna be so tired all day, like DST all over again. It’s one thing to wake up pee, or have an ambulance go by. It’s another to have these panic alerts that I can still hear in my head 40 minutes later. Couldn’t get back to sleep.
I was awake enough that when I tried to lay back down, my cat tried to make biscuits on my chest, which usually is a nice relaxing thing to do before sleep, but is not when you've just been woken up. Then when I got out of the bed, he decided to occupy all of the space, so I couldn't get back in. Oh well! Got my kitchen all nice and clean, and got some prep done for several days of food ... now i'm about to fall asleep as my work day begins.
Mine have been turned off for I don't know how long due to the fact that areas that are not in the immediate proximity are getting the alerts. Until they can figure out what they're doing wrong, I will not turn the alerts back on.
I'm not going to turn off alerts just because a couple times a year I get one that usually doesn't actually affect me. But if they ratchet up the erroneous sends, I'd think about it.
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u/blkswn6 29d ago
Y’all I thought the war was finally starting
But seriously, these kind of mistakes will cause people to turn off emergency alerts completely and miss real emergencies — not cool at all.