While we were in Florida we were facing the possibility of a real emergency. There were severe thunderstorms with tornados popping up around the area. We were glued to the local news channel waiting for the latest word.

Then came a scheduled test of the emergency system. It blanked out coverage of the real emergency for about three minutes.

Far be it from me 😇 to point out the fact, but wasn't there a province wide test a few years back that failed miserably?  What was supposed to be a single alert at a specific time turned into a patchwork of failed tests in various regions.  I do not recall the specific date, but I recall discussing this with relatives around the province. 😈
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Besides, all a Canadian needs to do is follow US invasion plans on that dolt Hegseth's 🥴 SIGNAL account. 🤨

My phone just lit up with the Emergency Alert. When I clicked to go to the EA website, it came up with "Bad Gateway".

Good thing it's only a "Test".

It blared on my radio first then my cellphone. 🥱

At the rock radio station I worked at we had an assistant production manager who'd always say "Be a-lert, the world needs more lerts." during emergency tests. Needless to say Ken never made it to production manager.

I was having a Fish & Chip lunch with a friend when the alert happened. It was weird hearing 40 phones all going off simultaneously.

Easily Amused wrote:

They were late. 🤨
12:56 instead of 12:55.
I know, kwitcherbitchin. 😁

Mine on my iPhone came up at 12:54 yesterday.