Presidential Alert; Live thread

Free Republic ^ | Oct 3, 2018, 2:01 | palmer

[palmer]

While we are waiting we can donate to the Freepathon

[hoagy62]

It could be your carrier doesn’t participate, but most major carriers do. If you just have a flip phone, you may not have gotten it.

[damper99]

Wife’s smart phone got it. My flip phone didn’t, even thought I get and send texts on it.

[DivineMomentsOfTruth]

Got the alert on my phone at 2:18 and on my radio at 2:21.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

😂

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I’m a Monthly, so I’m all in. Just got my alert. It was completely painless.

[Oregon Valkyrie]

I am in Southern Oregon and I didn’t get it. My friend nearby with the same phone did get it.

[generally]

In the event of a national emergency, a Presidential WEA alert would be issued at the direction of the President and/or his/her designee, and activated by FEMA.

link: https://www.fema.gov/news-release/2018/10/02/nationwide-emergency-alert-test-planned-oct-3-test-messages-will-be-sent

[bigbob]

I was hoping for a nice MAGA graphic of Trump giving a thumbs up...

[BlessedBeGod]

If you just have a flip phone, you may not have gotten it.

Thanks, maybe that explains it. But I get text messages from my carrier telling that my bill's been paid, so I assumed I'd get the alert, too. Guess not.

[generally]

See my post #87.

It’s via FEMA, but at the direction of POTUS.

[a fool in paradise]

It said

“Who needs twitter?!!”

[Buckeye McFrog]

Thank God this system wasn’t fully up and running under Obama. Can you imagine?

“This is President Obama. Eat your peas”
“This is President Obama. Open enrollment under the Affordable Care Act starts today”
“This is President Obama. The Cambridge police acted stupidly”

etc. etc. ETC. ETC. ETC. ETC....

[CaptainMorgantown]

Mine said there was TOO MUCH WINNING and it was now a national emergency. :)

[plain talk]

Yep. Every 3 yrs there will a test. What’s next? Yawn

[hoagy62]

In the message on radio and TV, it did mention the phone alert test. Part of the message read/said “Many phones will get it. Others will not”. I guess yours was one of those.

[BlessedBeGod]

:-)

[DCBryan1]

Drink your Ovaltine

[BlessedBeGod]

Dang. Thanks!

[RightField]

We’re currently driving on I-10 in CA, about 25 miles west of Blytheville .... we got the test loud and clear on both cell phones.

[Qiviut]

I’ve got a Tracphone and it went off. I recently switched to a much better android phone where the carrier is Verizon so I expected to get an alert and I did. :-) I found out that it works well for local tornado alerts too when we had an outbreak here back in Sept. as remnants of Florence were going through the area.