Emergency alert to be tested on US cellphones, TV and radio on Wednesday

That is handled completely by the phone. Until it is acknowleged, it will continue to display the dialog.

Yes.

It tells the phone to stop displaying the message.

Someday, when cell phones don't interfere with airplanes and no one can remember when they did, people will ask, Why do they call it airplane mode.

We too had those two things. You are the first other person to bring this up. Where did you live?

Even thought I went to public school from 1952 to 68, we never had Duck and Cover. I never heard of it until I was 40 years old.

When I was about 40 I started to wonder about the air raid drills. I had lived between Pittsburgh but closer to Youngstown. Why would there be air raids there? Could there be an air raid that far inland?

Recently I read about some civilian org that watched for enemy planes and they did do that at least 3/4 of the way inland to where I was.

We never were asked to put our hands over our heads.

I was the opposite. I knew what a Russian was but didn't know about burial.

He's a very tactful guy.

Definitely wasn't afraid. There hadn't been a fire or airraid for the previous 100 days. Why should this day be different.

But we did unknowingly sell the scrap metal to Japan that they used to build war products, probably ships and planes.

You got me to check mine and my Xiaomi about 3 years old doesn't seem to have any setting for that, but I did notice under Notificatsion that I got an App vault notification 2 hours ago (but notifications for that are turned off and I don't remember it) and I got an Android System notification 5 hours ago, which, sinced it's

I got a Maps notification too, Google maps, 3 minutes ago, but when I go to google maps there is no indication of a noti. and the windowshade shows nothing. ????

No need. It sends a message back from the implanted chip you got with the covid vaccine. I pressed OK on the phone and I felt my arm quiver as the chip was activated.

I remember doing it once, about 3rd or 4th grade so about 1953 or so. I think it was proven that a school desk was good protection if an atomic bomb hit the school.

I hate to, umm, explode the fatalism here, but "duck and cover" and associated protective measnures ARE IMPORTANT.

True, if a Hiroshima bomb explodes directrly above your school you're going to be lava and ashes, but ... if it's five miles away, your school will lose its windows and some walls, but if you take cover you'll be ok [a].

We saw this exact scenario in Chelyabinsk, Russia, a decade ago.

A meteor[ite] exploded above the city at a height of about 20 miles, with a force 500 kilotons (about

People had **TWO MINUTES** from "flash to blast".

There were about 1,500 recognized injuries from the secondary effects (shattered glass, etc.).

Almost every single one of those 1,500 would have been fine if they'd have "ducked and covered".

I can't find it now, but I saw a (translated) interview with a school teacher recognized as a hero for rushing her kids to an interior hallway.

Wiki has a good writeup:

Wow. I didn't realize what that was until you explained it.

Is this true?

When you get your cellular data back, does it catch up to where it would have been?

Just like what's happening with the save icon..

Los Angeles: never saw the stupid turtle either. Teachers just yelled DROP and we climbed under our desks. The ones with inkwells. And we had ink pens before we got those really crappy ballpoint pens that left blobs on the paper.

Anybody who has to bang his shoe on a table to make a point is a blowhard.

That infrastructure is robust and distributed across the various wireless carriers, and it's asynchronous so the responses can be cached until the number bleeds down to manageable levels. IOW, it's not really an issue.

When I worked at a wireless carrier, we actually used to worry about that volume, but by the time I left we were long past the point where it was a concern. There were various events that caused large spikes in traffic, including the Superbowl every year and things like American Idol voting, so carriers have it figured out.

USA doesn't seem to have such anachronistic signs as UK does for traffic enforcement cameras

Now I know why my pictures haven't turned out well. I have to get one of those bellows attachments.

In the other direction, that some people got their alerts 2 minutes early, could that be because it takes time to send out 100's of millions of alerts?

Accidentally, I'm on one mailing list twice, and sometimes the times for the same email are a minute apart (maybe 2 minutes?? I forget).

I was a wirelss carrier myself. I was a mailman for part of a summer, and they let me work without a wire.

I live 2 miles from the NIH and Walter Reed Hospital, and 11 miles from the White House. If the balloon goes up, no where to safely shelter in this neck of the woods. Thinking about it, beginning as a newborn, I've never lived in place where I wasn't either at a ground zero location or within just a few miles from one.

Looks like a Hasselblad to me. Don't they make those any more?

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Not only did the school desks have inkwells in the far corner, but they had right handed inkwells and left handed inkwells for ambi-affirmation.

Do you remember that those school tables were made out of solid maple? Not the hard resin plastic stuff.

You know this because of two things (other than the beautiful grain):

1. Kids carved their names in the desks, and...
2. The ABC gum stuck better to the underside in an emergency.