First National UK Emergency Alerts Test
Discussion
vaud said:
Narcisus said:
I remember them testing the air raid sirens in the early 80's that noise always made my skin crawl.
Me too, but that was because of the tacit link to a nuclear early warning. The poster above who was in Canada and was warned about a storm! Great, bloody thing will be going off all the time in Cornwall in winter.
Its only as good as the people in charge of sending the warnings.
vaud said:
Narcisus said:
I remember them testing the air raid sirens in the early 80's that noise always made my skin crawl.
Me too, but that was because of the tacit link to a nuclear early warning. The likes of Protect and Survive, When the Wind Blows, Threads ( set in my hometown ) The Day After and Frankie Goes to Hollywood didnt help !
Narcisus said:
Yeah I spent many sleepless nights in my early teens .... I remember very well one year thinking I hope I have my birthday before a nuclear war ....
The likes of Protect and Survive, When the Wind Blows, Threads ( set in my hometown ) The Day After and Frankie Goes to Hollywood didnt help !
Ha me too.The likes of Protect and Survive, When the Wind Blows, Threads ( set in my hometown ) The Day After and Frankie Goes to Hollywood didnt help !
We lived near to a primary target as well. Oh, and my dad was part of emergency planning so in our hall telephone table there was a book with all of the disaster response material - bunker details (he was on the list, we were not), where the 50k body bags were, where the mass graves were to be dug. Cheery stuff.
Threads chose Sheffield in the 80s as they didn't needs to do anything to the scenery to make it look like a post-nuclear strike.
Edited by vaud on Friday 25th June 14:55
vaud said:
Narcisus said:
Yeah I spent many sleepless nights in my early teens .... I remember very well one year thinking I hope I have my birthday before a nuclear war ....
The likes of Protect and Survive, When the Wind Blows, Threads ( set in my hometown ) The Day After and Frankie Goes to Hollywood didnt help !
Threads chose Sheffield in the 80s as they didn't needs to do anything to the scenery to make it look like a post-nuclear strike. The likes of Protect and Survive, When the Wind Blows, Threads ( set in my hometown ) The Day After and Frankie Goes to Hollywood didnt help !
The system works well, and is a good idea. From experience it’s mainly extreme local weather event/natural disaster warnings that it’s used for, but occasionally missing/abducted child alerts come out. Its only QAnon types that object to such systems (what are they doing with a smartphone in the first place? 
), and it can be disabled if so inclined, so there you go.
), and it can be disabled if so inclined, so there you go.red_slr said:
Wonder how long before someone presses the wrong button and causes mass panic LOL.
We have sirens up here, tested every Weds at 11am for the local fuel depot. I have been in this office for 15 years and I still look at my watch every time it goes off just to check!
It happened in Hawaii in 2018We have sirens up here, tested every Weds at 11am for the local fuel depot. I have been in this office for 15 years and I still look at my watch every time it goes off just to check!
There is a theory than something very similar happened in the UK in early May, but on that occasion the erroneous notification that a massive Russian ballistic missile strike was inbound to UK cities was only circulated to the phones of senior government figures, and that at least one decided that the best way of spending his final four minutes was by having a knee-trembler with his aide in the corridor outside his office.
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