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Nationwide test of Wireless Emergency Alert system could test people’s patience – or help rebuild public trust in the system (or cause a run on tin foil)
The Conversation ^ | October 3, 2023 | Hamilton Bean, Elizabeth Ellcessor

Posted on 10/03/2023 7:16:49 PM PDT by DoodleBob

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To: Huskrrrr

I saw an earlier post that gave the time of the test, I didn’t find it in any links from this post. I’m planning on mowing the lawn tomorrow so I’ll turn my cell phone off and leave it in the garage. I love the dread the authorities will have thinking I’ll miss their big fireworks. They’re so fake.


21 posted on 10/03/2023 7:37:57 PM PDT by WhoisAlanGreenspan? (New tagline!!!! GO LIONS)
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To: DoodleBob

Shooting Morgan State University. Baltimore.


22 posted on 10/03/2023 7:38:10 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: ansel12

I spent virtually all of my waking life in the Northeast, where we rarely have tornados.

A few years ago, I was in the Midwest on business. A colleague warmed me, as it was the 1st of the month, that at noon every siren would go off as part of a monthly test of their tornado alert system.

I was still jolted.


23 posted on 10/03/2023 7:40:22 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: hanamizu

Remember the end scene in “Lawnmower Man”?


24 posted on 10/03/2023 7:45:41 PM PDT by Right Brother (Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republic)
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To: DoodleBob

I saw the same garbage about the nanoparticles, so the run on tinfoil has probably already begun. If anyone has some, you had better bar the door!


25 posted on 10/03/2023 7:47:03 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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26 posted on 10/03/2023 7:51:18 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: Vermont Lt
I cannot believe the number of people losing their shift over this. It’s just a test.

This is an inventory assessment where each device will be tracked through the entire network without a warrant.

27 posted on 10/03/2023 7:52:20 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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28 posted on 10/03/2023 7:58:20 PM PDT by conservativeimage (Divorce the Deep State Peacefully: Become a State National - tasa.americanstatenationals.org)
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To: DoodleBob

Start time 2:20P Eastern


29 posted on 10/03/2023 7:58:32 PM PDT by dagunk
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To: DoodleBob

Time to power off the phones


30 posted on 10/03/2023 7:58:46 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: DoodleBob

As a kid we had the sirens and lots of sonic booms, we had fallout shelter signs and actual nuclear shelters behind them with food and water for Americans.

When you watch some 1950s horror movies like Giant Flying Insect Attacks Strategic Air Command, or Giant Ants Attack the United States Army in Los Angeles you get the military/ready-for-war/we-can-handle-anything feel of 1950s America.


31 posted on 10/03/2023 8:04:29 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: WhoisAlanGreenspan?

I’m planning on mowing the lawn tomorrow so I’ll turn my cell phone off and leave it in the garage

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And when you turn it back on, there will be the text message, laughing at you.

My method actually works.

I don’t own a cell phone.


32 posted on 10/03/2023 8:21:43 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (There are only two sexes but there are 57 different types of queers.)
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To: hanamizu

I’m supposed to be in the audience for a matinee performance at a fancy schmancy place tomorrow with friends. Hope they do it before the show starts. It would be pretty disruptive if the performance has started.


33 posted on 10/03/2023 8:22:09 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: WhoisAlanGreenspan?

I read that it will happen at 2:20 eastern time.


34 posted on 10/03/2023 8:26:04 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Graybeard58

Wow! Somebody besides myself who does not own a cell phone! People look at me like I am crazy when I say I don’t have one or want one. I just smile. haha


35 posted on 10/03/2023 8:27:12 PM PDT by bohica1
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To: bohica1

I don’t have a land line either.

My adult daughter, who lives with me, has a phone that she will use to call for help in case her 78 year old dad has a medical emergency..


36 posted on 10/03/2023 8:36:32 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (There are only two sexes but there are 57 different types of queers.)
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To: bohica1

If you don’t own a cellphone, a carrier pigeon will swoop down on you with the alert tied to its leg.


37 posted on 10/03/2023 8:38:02 PM PDT by gitmo
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To: Vermont Lt
It’s just a test.


38 posted on 10/03/2023 8:39:17 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: conservativeimage

The “Turn off your television sets” speech is one of the greatest speeches in film history, and very relevant today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eT8QF6L1pk


39 posted on 10/03/2023 8:41:17 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dagunk

How long does it last?


40 posted on 10/03/2023 8:44:41 PM PDT by goodnesswins ( We pretend to vote and they pretend to count the votes.)
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