Emergency Alert!

I'm another sceptic that thinks this is Putin/China related. If they send nukes here I'll be sitting outside with my little dog, waiting to go together.

We have this in the USA and I find it really useful.
Not just for disasters but they also send out an alert when a vulnerable old person goes missing or when a child has been abducted - of course only in your relevant area - with description and car they are in. I find it so important as it no doubt has helped find people much faster

23 April is St George’s Day.
Wonder if there be dragons to slay once we’ve been warned?
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Living in a flood-risk area, I welcome it. The last time we faced the risk of flooding, there was nothing on any of the BBC channels to keep us up to date. It was the day Nelson Mandela died and he was the focus of attention on every one of their channels. I did complain!

I wholeheartedly support this action

Lake Ohau NZ - In 2020 my oldest friend was woken at 1am by such an alarm/alert on her phone as her village was on fire. Fortunately no lives were lost but 48 of 40 homes were completely destroyed. My friend had moved there after her house was destroyed in the Auckland earthquake

They tried this out in Germany a while back. If I remember correctly it was as a reaction to the devastating floods in the Ahr valley. Haven't had anything since.

What about all the scam alerts we are bound to receive?

Sounds like a good idea to me can see absolutely no point in turning it off.
Not quite sure how the government can possibly control people by just sending a warning of any impending danger.

Dempie55

Germanshepherdsmum

Where did you find about this? It seems very unlikely.

It is a true thing, reported on Sky New and The Guardian.

Absolutely true!

More propaganda and control from our fearmongering Govt. Go to setting, notifications and turn Emergency Alerts OFF! On Sky News the Minister was talking about Civil Resilience - I reckon more like Civil Resistance!

I think we're spied on anyway. Every time I turn on the TV its ALWAYS the ads first.

In 2020 we were in Greece and in lockdown on the island of Crete. The Greek govt. were sending out edicts direct to everyones mobile phones about what you could and could not do in relation to movements etc. You had to enter a code into the mobile and send it back to notify if you needed to go out, for example shopping, doctors etc... and if you got stopped by police without having notified the authorities via your mobile you could be arrested! So the UK plan is pretty tame compared to Greek authorities.

Omg the dam thing will be buzzing all the time you only need to listen to the weather forecast when they tell you to stay indoor cos we may get 2 cms of snow which could result in the lost of life such drama

pooohbear2811 I decided more than 40 years ago that when the 4-minute warning comes I'll go outside and sit in the street. Life won't be worth living after a full-scale nuclear attack. Have you seen Threads? or read/seen When The Wind Blows?

Where I live in the sticks there’s no signal so I won’t be disturbed.

One more reason for me to feel grateful I don't have a mobile phone

Jeezy peeps, this could save lives. We live just over the bridge from where the great flood of 31st January 1953 occurred, 58 people lost their lives homes were lost it was devastating.

I can remember the test flood warning sirens through most of the 70’s.

It seems sensible to me.

My DS told me about it. My first thought was a nuclear warning. But on further consideration I've decided it is far more lightly to be a get out clause. "We sent out a warning, if you get drowned in a flood/caught in a storm/in a major pile-up, it's your own fault because WE WARNED YOU!!!!

rowyn

And how would they get all the numbers? Sounds like a belated April Fool to me.

It’ll be sent via all the mobile phone companies to all of their customers HannahLoisLuke.

I’d sooner know when an emergency is likely than when flood waters are lapping at the door!

Good idea but slightly worrying as to why the govt has decided after all these years that we now need to have such a warning system. A similar system has been operating in some European countries for many years.

Oreo

Seems like a good use of tech to me.
If Putin goes nuclear we can be prepared to hide under the table.🤪

that was my first thought - nuclear weapons incoming, ...t.ake your door off and prop it against the wall.....personally if they are incoming I think my instinct would be to get near it and get vaped straight away rather than suffer the predicted consequences when a few dozen have gone off round the world.

I don't have a mobile phone. I live very well without it, I'm sorry I don't care.

Germanshepherdsmum

Where did you find about this? It seems very unlikely.

It was all over the radio and tv news yesterday, but my understanding is that only people in areas prone to flooding or forest/ heathland fires will receive this test alert. I may be wrong and it will include everybody.

Katie59
Anyone is very welcome to listen to my conversations. Can't imagine they would gain much from me. Probably hear me asking my husband not to forget the onions.

I think the reasoning is BS, floods and fires. My perspective is that it’s for if/when we are at war with Russia/China but obviously they can’t say that and spread panic among us. Does anyone else agree with me?