First National UK Emergency Alerts Test

[vaud]

I'd missed that this was rolling out in the UK - interesting and positive development in my view given the shift for people away from live TV, etc


https://www.macrumors.com/2021/06/22/uk-emergency-...

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anonymoususer said:

Ah thank you

Actually I'm mistaken - and deleted post - it was iOS that will be tested on June 29 in Reading as a regional test. My bad.

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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.

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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.

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