Public emergency alerts to be sent to all UK smartphones on 23rd April

RumRat

Will it go off everyday because of the impending catastrophe of climate change? 
Easy to turn off though....
Not sure why they would choose St Georges day, we'll all be down the pub!!!

MikeyPGT

oldernonethewiser said:

My iphone has Emergency Alerts at the bottom of Notifications

Extreme Alerts & Severe Alerts

Running iOS 16.4

I'm on iOS 15.7.4 and it's on there too - usual toggle button to switch on/off.  Oliver Dowden announced it a week or so back so no wonder no-one took any notice of it!

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forgotmyname said:

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Can't be that important then.

Still, I suppose "Nuclear strike imminent, get the door off its hinges and hide under it!" isn't much good if you are driving a car....

You don't hide under the door with a Nuclear attack, you remove the door to stand SAFELY in the opening it leaves behind. 

Perfectly safe if you do that, I remember reading the leaflets and watching the TV in the late 70's. Maybe houses were
stronger back then?  Although if you were within the detonation zone it maybe safer to hide under the stairs.

They spent millions on those leaflets, and we can't even remember the sound advice that would have saved us

Here it is, I was right, you built a bomb shelter by taking the doors off their hinges, well you had to really, as only Our Masters could fit in the radiation hardened underground shelters built to keep Government (of what exactly, following Armageddon?) safe and functioning.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1500124311

Latest advice is, after the flash, get in the corner of the room alongside the window and wait for the following blast wave to blow the window glass inwards past you rather than get shredded by it.

I like The Plan where I sit in a proper bunker for 6 months and then emerge to rule over the survivors.....

jackieblack

Do we know what sort of time this is going to be?

matelodave

I guess the best time would be about 2am, so everyone is at home and cant be surprised if they are doing something.

Just imagine the pandemonium in the checkout at ASDA or Waitrose when they all go off together. Even worse if you are in a garden centre or trying to trim you hedge. accidents all over the place.

Much safer if you are tucked up in bed

flaneurs_lobster

I've seen reference to "early evening", whatever that means. Can't remember where, local press maybe.

oldernonethewiser

matelodave said:

I guess the best time would be about 2am, so everyone is at home and cant be surprised if they are doing something.

Just imagine the pandemonium in the checkout at ASDA or Waitrose when they all go off together. Even worse if you are in a garden centre or trying to trim you hedge. accidents all over the place.

Much safer if you are tucked up in bed

 

People would just love getting woken up in the middle of the night.

The BBC website says they expect it to be early evening.

Neil_Jones

oldernonethewiser said:

matelodave said:

I guess the best time would be about 2am, so everyone is at home and cant be surprised if they are doing something.

Just imagine the pandemonium in the checkout at ASDA or Waitrose when they all go off together. Even worse if you are in a garden centre or trying to trim you hedge. accidents all over the place.

Much safer if you are tucked up in bed

 

People would just love getting woken up in the middle of the night.

The BBC website says they expect it to be early evening.

If you live in Japan you'll be in for a fun time, because the emergency alert system there is designed (I believe ) to turn your TV on if there's an earthquake and/or a major tsunami because of said earthquake, and this will be at full blast at whatever time in the morning it happens.

Of course if the TV is physically unplugged it cannot happen, though I suspect there may be ways and means to push things to mobile phones to get you to turn your TV on, though I'd also probably suggest the building you're in shaking and potentially falling down around your ears is clearly the obvious sign to get under a table pretty sharpish...

Grumpy_chap

Will these alerts just tell us of impending disaster, or advise us how to mitigate the impact?

Presumably they have chosen St. George's Day to warn of the impending end of the Empire and we will all have to sing the National Anthem.  Or go on holiday to Barcelona.

Edit:. I just found the settings for enabling / disabling alerts on my Moto.  This must be new, I guess, but interesting that the default setting had test messages off so I assume I won't receive anything on 23rd.  

Grey_Critic

You can read all about it here

https://www.gov.uk/alerts