Emergency warning on Sunday

As Ilovecheese says - I do hope that all those people with secret phones who are trying to escape an abusive relationship have switched their alarms off!

That gumph from Full Fact doesn't concern me at all. I doubt it a main reason why people aren't interested either. I don't think this is any ridiculous conspiracy theory. I am not interested in it because it's pointless. In my opinion.

But for those who look forward to being warned of a bush fire, extreme temperatures, (drink water, stay in shade), earthquake, (hide in a bath) all well and good. It doesn't affect my life at all.

However if there is a missile heading towards us I would rather not know. I would be unable to do much about it, after all.

Louella why so sneering, we have had bad floods in my area we used to have a town flood siren (same thing) but with all the noise of traffic, life, car sirens and shop alarms going off any time of day and night, how much easier and direct to have a sound followed by a message come through on your phone

What is your argument against it, of course it’s nothing to do with your sarcastic ‘bush fires or earthquake’ sentence but we do have disasters in this country too or perhaps you didn’t realise that
I wonder if it would help if there was a raging madman (or woman or gender neutral person) in the area shooting indiscriminately We ve had that havent we?
I wonder if lives could be saved with big fires…. we have them too
Floods ….small villages are being eroded away
What about a warning of car pile ups I can think of so many every day disasters that are nothing to do with bush fires earthquakes avalanches or nuclear war
Why so anti ?

If you are not interested, or think it is a load of nonsense, that's your business.

However, what I fail to understand, is why some posters are rude cannot respect the views of those, who see it as a sensible idea.
I am neither angry, nor following like a sheep..

That has happened the other way round marydoll as well people have been a bit rude about those who arent participating.

I rarely have my phone on.
I could live without it.

the mobile phone that is

Galaxy

That has happened the other way round marydoll as well people have been a bit rude about those who arent participating.

Galaxy, as Bluebelle has said, no need for sneering comments. That is unnecessary.
However, I may be wrong, but I haven't noticed that type of unpleasant comments from those in favour of the emergency alerts. I'm sure you will be able to direct me to them.

Regardless of what the thread is, there will always be those, who resort to unpleasantness to state their case, rather than reasoned argument.
It's just a mirror of real life.

Last summer's grass and crop fires that spead quickly to, and destroyed, peoples homes worried me, as we live in a small village entirely surrounded by such farmland. Any warning that something like that had broken out nearby would be very welcome as far as I am concerned.

On a lighter note, I doubt very much if my OH has registered the fact that we will get the alert this afternoon. We will be in a big family group when it happens. Am I being mean not to warn him, and in actually looking forward to seeing his reaction when all our phones start blaring?

Wildfire within sight of our house. I would want to know about in the future

Milest0ne

Wildfire within sight of our house. I would want to know about in the future

Can't you just look out of the window?

but I haven't noticed that type of unpleasant comments from those in favour of the emergency alerts.

Those of us who don't want to be part of the test have been told that we think we're so clever that we should be running the civil defence forces, that we're part of the group who just doesn't like being told what to do, and that we'd appreciate it if it was about our grandchildren.

Live and let live, eh?

I think a raging fire heading for my house would be seen out of the window when it would be too late to escape !

Absolutely Aggie, they travel so fast you can’t drive away from them when they have a hold. Plus they attack trees which fall down and block your escape routes. I have never seen such devastation as when my daughter lost her house, the whole area was razed to the ground, even the snakes and kangaroos were burnt to a crisp.

It might happen at night though Aggie.

Yes , the alarm at night could save a few /many lives

Friends of ours in Turkey have been receiving actual alerts on their phones just this morning following a small earthquake. They are very useful in the event of things like earthquakes, floods, tornadoes and so on.

I have a part of me that doesnt like being told what to do. I actually think of it as one of my better characteristics.

nanna8

Absolutely Aggie, they travel so fast you can’t drive away from them when they have a hold. Plus they attack trees which fall down and block your escape routes. I have never seen such devastation as when my daughter lost her house, the whole area was razed to the ground, even the snakes and kangaroos were burnt to a crisp.

They were dreadful; I was over there when fires were near us. We had a bag packed ready to flee, could see the fires but the farmers had been out carrying out controlled burning and with their bowsers so they didn't reach us thank goodness.

Your daughter's experience was terrible.

Nanny State again! My phone will be off!

//When it is fully operational, the alert system will be used by the Government and emergency services to make people aware to issues like severe flooding, fires and extreme weather events.

The Government has said that it could eventually be used to sound the alarm for terror attacks, nuclear threats and dangerous criminals on the loose.

Officials also noted “car bombs” and “civil nuclear incidents” as examples of crises which could trigger the alerts in future.//
- The Independent, 21 April 2023
apple.news/A8V5zFiGJTE-uCcNooWnFKw

I think it's a good idea.

I think it’s a good idea too, though as we have no reception here we won’t benefit until that improves. In last summer’s heat field fires destroyed several homes in a nearby village. Fortunately we’re not in a flood risk area but so many are, and climate change means we are going to see more of these incidents caused by extremes of weather. Forewarned is forearmed.

I left it on in case I nodded off 🙂

I've decided to leave mine on cos I want to hear what it sounds like. Minutes away now...

All pretty painless.