National Emergency Alert System Test October 04

Jo C.

May be upsetting to Loved Ones with dementia:

ALERT: For those who are unaware, tomorrow, Wednesday, October 04, there will be a massive testing of the National Emergency Alert System on cell phones, radio stations and TV stations across the entire U.S. The cell phone sound should be rather loud or vibrating or both. See link below for full explanation as to how and why.

The time frame across the U.S.:

The alert will air at the same moment across every time zone in the country starting at 2:20 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Oct. 4. The time will vary across time zones, so look to see when you might be alerted.

• 2:20 p.m. EDT
• 1:20 p.m. CDT
• 12:20 p.m. MDT
• 11:20 a.m. PDT
• 10:20 a.m. ADT
• 8:20 a.m. HST

The test is scheduled to last approximately one minute. It will only go out once, there will be no repeats.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/massive-emergency-alert-test-scheduled-091140052.html

Sorry I did not think to Post this earlier.

J.

Jgirl57

Thank you! I turned the phones off and the sound off the TV.

Iris L.

I got two very loud tests, with texts both in Spanish, which I do not read.

Iris

Quilting brings calm

I got the alert multiple times, while my spouse only got it once.

I went to my parents, and the alarm was still going off every few minutes an hour and a half later. My parents told me it was their fire alarm. Turned out that my step dad needed to press the ok button on his flip phone.