United Kingdom National Emergency Alert TEST 23 April 2023

Thanks for the alert on the alert, lol. That would certainly be startling to get on one's phone.

I am in the UK that day and appreciate the heads up.

if it happens.

It was mentioned once around where I am and nothing since.

I wonder if it will work as well as the c-19 track and trace app so enthusiastically announced by the government a couple of years ago - we had ping-gate

Just received this video from my Diocese which shows what will happen on Sunday-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvZM-oCReu8

Newcastle v Spurs on Sunday afternoon.

Interesting to see 50,000 phones go off at the same time

Well that was a monumental failure. Of the five phones in my household only my wife's work phone sounded the alarm!

Perfect on both our phones except that it happened at 2.59.

what a damp squib.

3 phones. One got it. No way to acknowledge. No flashing screen or torch for deaf folks. No readout of the wimpy message for blind folks.

typical.

and agreed -- it was early

These have been in operation in Ontario for several years. I'm sure we aren't the only place. Anywhere else?

Anywhere else?

We experienced a test in Spain a couple of weeks ago. Our phone binged when we were on a train and we had a message on the screen that it was test simulation for a bomb threat.

In Australia, these types of alerts are routinely used during natural disasters like floods and fires but they are geographically limited to affected areas.

More local incidents like floods and fires are what the alarm is meant to be for when its used in anger.

I know they have the alerts in at least parts of Washington State, USA. Don't know if it's the whole state but some counties anyway.

I don't have a smart phone so was never going to get it, but I was in a meeting at 3.00, and none of the other three people there received anything, not that we were thinking about it, as the meeting was about a gardening group.

We mostly get them for Amber Alerts - missing children. But there was an error one that went out saying there was an accident at a nuclear plant.

Lots of Spurs fans got them - real emergency going on there

Agreed, early, the sneaks! Looking after my brother’s two dogs and had to scrape them off the ceiling. But only after I’d scraped myself off it first! Definitely came through loud and clear here!

From BBC News about the warning in Welsh-

For the phrase "others safe" the message read "eraill yn Vogel" when
it should have been "eraill yn ddiogel". "Vogel" is a complete
nonsense word in Welsh - although it is a ski resort in Slovenia.

Oh dear!