Posted on 10/03/2023 10:52:03 PM PDT by ransomnote
The battery on my phone just died, oops!
I don’t see people falling over due to 5g concerns.
I don’t see panicking, burning tires, riots and looting in the streets so I guess we’re okay.
Yep..... sure enough.
Nah.... it’s just a test to see how many passwords they can pilfer from people powering up their phones after the alert.
I got a Presidential Alert message on my phone. It was in Spanish and I don’t know Spanish.
Hawaii had a false-alarm missile alert a few years back - the system worked then. During the fires, nothing/no one worked properly in Hawaii.
I never got the alert today, and my phone is turned on. Looks like having turned off all the alerts in my settings, worked.
I never got that alert in 2018. I know because my phone is always on, but all alerts are turned off. I live in the eastern time zone. I received no alert from the government today either.
Some reasons why you may not have gotten it:
Older phones may also not be compatible with Wireless Emergency Alerts, or WEA. Verizon has a list of phone models that are new enough to receive and display the alerts. For iPhones, for example, you’ll need an iPhone 4 or later to get any sort of alert. iPhones XR and later work with the latest version of WEA, which has improved geographic targeting in case of a real emergency.
If your cell coverage is from a smaller provider, they may also have opted out. “Some providers do not participate in WEA and will not transmit the national test,” FEMA says.
I have an iPhone 5S, and didn't get it.
I never got a message
ATT
Samsung S22 Ultra
Forgot to say I have Verizon cell service too, but still didn’t get it.
Weren’t they in the middle of a hurricane level wind and storm at the time. Probably some of the warning sirens had been disabled by that time. Also, the fires in the outskirts had probably disrupted communications wires.
I had been watching the Bold and the Beautiful in the MD, VA, DC viewing area and it was announced promptly at 2:20 pm.
There really was no excuse for the failure to notify.
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