Woah just got an EMERGENCY ALERT through my phone!

[optimisticgurl]

WOW so I was walking through CVS getting some last minute stuff in preparation for the hurricane hitting NYC and a loud buzzing came out of my phone and I looked at it and it was an EMERGENCY ALERT from NYC.Gov in RED coming through my phone as a text message saying MANDATORY EVACUATION Zone A, Rockaways, Hamilton Beach, etc! I've never had an alert like this come through my phone and I was the only one in the store with this on their cell phone. I read the phone came with this feature so I'm glad to see that it works!:captain:

 

[Rxpert83]

Yeah, made me jump the first time it happened too.

There should be a setting if you prefer to have it off

 

[Nucleartwig]

I got hit with one around 2-3 am a while back. Freaked me out, had no idea what was going on or where the noise was coming from as I was sound asleep when it happened. Turns out it was the emergency broadcast telling me a flash flood warning (there's never been a flash flood in my area. ever.) Read it, got pissed at it for waking me up, then went back to sleep.

 

[koopakid08]

I got them all the time in the summer. My area has a ton of flash floods.. -_-

 

[carracerz14]

You can turn it off except for presidential emergencies.

Mine only went off for flash flood warnings, even though we had a tornado warning and multiple severe thunderstorm warning. I would think it would go off for those too.

I know in my area they just started doing it this summer so maybe it's still rolling out.

 

[dwappo7851]

Presidential emergency? What would be a example of that?

 

[koopakid08]

Presidential emergency? What would be a example of that?

Alien invasion?

 

[imabitfighty]

it was raining in los angeles last week and I got 5 flash flood warning messages every hour. racked up 300 of those warning texts in 3 days... ridiculous.

turning it off didnt help they just kept coming.

 

[Rxpert83]

it was raining in los angeles last week and I got 5 flash flood warning messages every hour. racked up 300 of those warning texts in 3 days... ridiculous.

turning it off didnt help they just kept coming.

Whoa. That's a little over kill

 

[carracerz14]

Presidential emergency? What would be a example of that?

Yeah I'm not sure, but I'll go with alien invasion

 

[RG570]

Presidential emergency? What would be a example of that?

Obama couldnt get a Tee time ?

 

[fleshlightt]

Presidential emergency? What would be a example of that?

Pearl Harbor and the Sept 11th attacks.

 

[dwappo7851]

Pearl Harbor and the Sept 11th attacks.

Yea, that's what I thought. That or alien invasion, or walking dead scenario. lol