Welcome to the15:00 Alert Party

[Sea of vapours]

Three operational uses, in three different areas (NI & Scotland central belt, Plymouth, bits of Wales and SW England). More than one then, but not lots, and localised.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Emergency_Alert_System

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

What has Sir Nigel Gresley got to do with the nationwide alert?

The noise, dur!

A4s have only been chiming the warning for decades!! 🤣

Besides, amazing video anyway!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

They've only used it nationwide once before.

There was also the test, so yes, I have heard them (plural) before!

 

[Dogtrousers]

N.B. Don't be in the pub when it is going off. 🤦‍♂️🤣

Oddly enough, that's exactly where I was.

There was maybe 5 seconds of binging and bonging as everyone dismissed it, and then everyone carried on exactly as before.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Oddly enough, that's exactly where I was.

There was maybe 5 seconds of binging and bonging as everyone dismissed it, and then everyone carried on exactly as before.

The storm one kept on going off on people's phones, regardless. 🙄🤦‍♂️

 

[Accy cyclist]

I have two phones, but didn't hear either of them make a noise. Mind you, I didn't wake up till 5.30pm, so maybe one or both did go off.🤔 😉

 

[presta]

It's good the way the message disappears, never to be seen again, as soon as you touch 'OK', innit. Just too bad if you want to refer back to it again later.

 

[sevenfourate]

I’m out of the Country and my phone stayed silent. Bliss…….

 

[Punkawallah]

I was out on a ride at the time. My jersey pocket started to buzz. I reached in and pressed the screen. It stopped buzzing. Not sure what the fuss was all about really.

‘Fur ihre sicherheit’

 

[Oldhippy]

Nothing on mine.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Been kicked out the club. No alert today

 

[PeteXXX]

We've got a flood siren in Hamtun, especially necessary at Billing Aquadrome!

 

[wiggydiggy]

We've got a flood siren in Hamtun, especially necessary at Billing Aquadrome!

Camped there once years ago, I don't think they take tents anymore though.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Both of ours went off

We had warned the 2 grand kids before hand as one is autistic and we didn;t want him to worry

when it went off he sort of looked worried but was OK when we said that was the thing we had told him about

if all the phones in the park had gone off at the same time he might have needed some sort of comforting or something

the little one was totally unbothered


as said above - I can;t see why you would want to switch off an emergency alert
but then some people do things that puzzle me in many cases
so it is up to them

 

[PeteXXX]

Camped there once years ago, I don't think they take tents anymore though.

Mainly residential mobiles & holiday caravans. Not sure I've seen a tent there in years!