UK government alert (wild fire risk)!!!

[FishFright]

I have the option to disable "Severe Alerts" and a separate option to disable "Extreme Alerts" is there something above "Extreme"?

Thermo-Nuclear war ?

 

[Alex321]

They’re not wild fires. They are caused by humans.

Nobody is saying they are wild fires.

They ARE wildfires. Which is different.

 

[Drago]

are fires that are burning uncontrolled and are literally out of our control

Wild, you might say.

 

[Happy_Days]

I have the option to disable "Severe Alerts" and a separate option to disable "Extreme Alerts" is there something above "Extreme"?

Wild swimming 😜

 

[Dogtrousers]

Mine went off. I saw it,ok'd it and got on with browsing the SJS website for brake blocks.

Nothing to see here.

I decided on Swisstop BXP.

 

[Milzy]

Thermo-Nuclear war ?

The alerts are pretty much grooming us for the worst, yes that’s the whole point.

 

[Milzy]

yes they are caused by humans absolutely, but theyre still wildfires, because wildfires are fires that are burning uncontrolled and are literally out of our control, thats why they are called wildfires.

I literally cant even believe we are even having conversations like this thesedays

Orrr yeah I get it now. They’re talking like cool surfer beach bums now. They’re “Wiiiiild” fires duuuuude!!! 🙄 FFS.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Orrr yeah I get it now. They’re talking like cool surfer beach bums now. They’re “Wiiiiild” fires duuuuude!!! 🙄 FFS.

Precisely. As Andy Burnham said "These fires are wild, bro"

 

[MontyVeda]

It was, but has everyone remembered to do it?
We had older phones & disabled them.
MrsPete recently got a new phone and we hadn't remembered about it. Now turned off.

I don't think everyone is supposed to turn them off. Or am i missing something?

 

[Dogtrousers]

I don't think everyone is supposed to turn them off. Or am i missing something?

Not something I'll be bothering to do. Utterly pointless, and potentially a bad idea. Much easier to just read the alert and press ok. Or don't read it and press ok

 

[Webbo2]

I don't think everyone is supposed to turn them off. Or am i missing something?

Do you really want a warning that you are about to go up smoke because someone fired a missile at the UK.

 

[Drago]

Do you really want a warning that you are about to go up smoke because someone fired a missile at the UK.

Of course! Get in quick and you could make a killing with Ratheon sheres!

A very high altitude EMP burst is liable to be a precursor to an adtual nuclear attack, in which case the alerts wont be going out to anyone.

 

[Milzy]

Not something I'll be bothering to do. Utterly pointless, and potentially a bad idea. Much easier to just read the alert and press ok. Or don't read it and press ok

It’s far easier to bury our heads in the sand than wake up to what is actually happening.

 

[classic33]

It’s far easier to bury our heads in the sand than wake up to what is actually happening.

It'd be far easier, and reach a bigger audience if they'd announced it on the news. Or even a short piece to camera before the news. Possibly with a shot of how destructive the fires actually are on open moorland.

All it seems to have done is get more people wanting to know how to disable the alerts on their handsets. Also led to an increase in calls to the emergency services, who are stretched to the limit at present.

 

[Dorset Boy]

It'd be far easier, and reach a bigger audience if they'd announced it on the news. Or even a short piece to camera before the news. Possibly with a shot of how destructive the fires actually are on open moorland.

All it seems to have done is get more people wanting to know how to disable the alerts on their handsets. Also led to an increase in calls to the emergency services, who are stretched to the limit at present.

It wouldn't. How many people actually watch or listen to the news these days? Particularly in the under 40s age group.
They get their 'news' in other ways.
How many people don't own a mobile phone today?
This isn't the 1970s or 1980s.