In Florida they do that twice every Wednsday. Around noon and again around 6:00 PM.

As a teen in the early to mid 80s, with movies like "The Day After", "Threads", and "Testament", as well as the sabre-rattling between the US and Russia, these warning tests seemed to go from something theoretical to something that might very well happen.

RadioActive wrote:

This used to scare the hell out of me when I was a little kid. (Now watching the news does the same thing!)

Forward Power wrote:

Surprised we're still getting the test here in Ontario, given the child abduction alert that went out province-wide Wednesday evening.

That one was different than what I've been used to hearing. It started with a brief announcement *then* the tone came on. The message was also so brief that I didn't absorb it at all.

This happened as scheduled at 12:55 PM and I heard it on two radio stations. But oddly enough, it never activated on my cell phone. I wonder why.

totally missed it, after the test I saw the emergency alert text on my cellphone when I picked it up but there was no scary alert screech so 🥱

Twitter and the radio is more dependable.

Last edited by Hansa (November 16, 2022 7:52 pm)

Here's one where the legendary WOWO Ft. Wayne went on the air with an actual emergency alert, only to find the message had been sent by government forces in error. The year was 1971. But if you ever wondered what a real EBS disaster would sound like, here it is.