FEMA EAS Test [Live Thread]

FEMA ^ | 11/9/11

[hoagy62]

Okay everyone...approaching 2:00pm Eastern...ready for the "Big EAS Test"?

[Lazamataz]

Timewaste AND a total epic fustercluck.

And this was a prepared-for situation.

In a real emergency, eat your neighbor, because no help is coming.

[Lazamataz]

In fact, it’s my tagline.

[Red_Devil 232]

Are you sure that is not the year 1202

[dfwgator]

I hope it didn’t interrupt the latest installment of “The Death of Mary, Queen of Scots.”

[txrefugee]

“But there was no test here but then we Texans are independent souls.”

Guess the D.C. bureaucrats have figured out that we can take care of ourselves much better than they can take care of us. After a few hurricanes and wildfires in which FEMA has proven itself as useless as teats on a bore, hopefully they will leave us alone to take care of each other.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

By Excalibur, I love your tagline.

[Arrowhead1952]

Check your FR mail in a few.

[N. Theknow]

Had this been a real alert you would have been instructed to bend over and kiss your EAS goodbye.

[Evil Slayer]

Had this come up on all 4 of my TV monitors.....

You are not of the body; you must be absorbed.

[TornadoAlley3]

http://transition.fcc.gov/email_camp/media/30SEC_EAS_PSA_open-C.mov

[sheikdetailfeather]

Rush Limbaugh just pointed out how incompetant the govt. is and how badly this test failed. He said these are the people who are supposed to warn us of a terrorist attack.

[freedomlover]

[Evil Slayer]

EPIC FAIL

[Danae]

The dragon thanks you.... he is AWAKE.

LOL

[Sarah Barracuda]

Yeah I think they do something remotely to make it work again. I was going to unplug the box(Since some suggested here that I do it) but decided to give TMC a call, glad I did not unplug the box since that would have prolonged the problem

[Texas resident]

Yep, these are the people who are supposed to warn us of a terrorist attack, but I would bet they wouldn’t.

The white house ran this drill.

Never let a crisis go to waste.

[Gator113]

All is off right this minute on the west coast in Washington state. Now it is back on.

[Nebr FAL owner]

Heard the test.It was a clusterf**k . If this had been an actual emergency you would be sitting there scratching your head wondering what the village idiots that run this nations govt. wanted to say. Washington D.C. could screw up a one car funeral procession.

[DBrow]

“nothing wrong with a government being able to notify the populace of an emergency”

The existing LOCAL systems work fine. What does FedGov bring to this?

Which emergency of ours in the last 80 years would have benefited from a national warning system?