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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-10-09 03:44 PM Original message |
In my whole life I've never heard the Emergency Alert System used for an actual emergency |
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Lars39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-10-09 03:47 PM Response to Original message |
1. I've heard it for tornadoes in the past year or so. |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-10-09 03:52 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Are you in a tornado area? |
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Lars39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-10-09 03:55 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. I'm in TN. |
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fishwax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-10-09 03:50 PM Response to Original message |
2. I have. It was an odd experience. |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-10-09 03:53 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. What was the emergency? |
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fishwax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-10-09 03:58 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. tornadoes |
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Kutjara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-10-09 04:00 PM Response to Original message |
7. Here in SoCal, they seem to have been testing it at least once per day... |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-10-09 04:02 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. I'm betting on zombie plague or Moon explosion |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-10-09 04:13 PM Response to Original message |
9. I have heard it used once |
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Ineeda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-10-09 04:22 PM Response to Original message |
10. other than the annoying tests |
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Bunny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-10-09 06:26 PM Response to Original message |
11. I've heard it a couple of times for Amber Alerts. |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-10-09 08:38 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. Now that you mention it, I think I've heard it once or twice for that reason |
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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-10-09 06:47 PM Response to Original message |
12. They use them here all the time for flooding. |
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sakabatou (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-10-09 07:04 PM Response to Original message |
13. Rarely have I heard it |
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cbayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-10-09 07:23 PM Response to Original message |
14. They didn't use if before, during or after Katrina. |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-10-09 08:37 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Exactly! Exactly! |
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cbayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-10-09 08:44 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. We had days of no communication, and we kept asking each other, where's the |
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