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New emergency alert system, UK

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    @pansyface my phone’s the same as yours except we have no signal,  we take I for drive sometimes. 

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Me and you both @pansyface :D
    I hate mobile phones. I have my reasons for that and it involves a person.

    I never know where mine is half the time, hardly ever look at it, and I only make sure I have it when I go on a hill. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • EB123EB123 Posts: 23
    You can turn off the alert if you need to, and anyone with a hidden phone (in particular those experiencing domestic abuse) is advised to turn off the alert.

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    That's exactly the reason for my hatred of them @EB123. Fortunately I'm no longer in that situation.  
    I only had one phone, but I hope anyone in that situation does have a hidden one they can turn off. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Preparing us for Putin's nuclear attack.  :)
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    edited April 2023
    "You will be exterminated in 4 mins"...  I can't be the only person who'd rather not know.  Quite glad I'm living in Ireland at the moment.
    Edited to say:  that doesn't make me immune from extermination, but I don't think the government here are planning to warn us.
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    punkdoc said:
    Preparing us for Putin's nuclear attack.  :)
    I could hide under the dining room table!!

    Actually, a Second World War bomb apparently landed at the end of our road, and while a number of houses were completely destroyed, ours was the nearest to survive. Even the surveyor, when we bought this place, mentioned the "World War Two bomb damage", which can still be seen in the lounge and hallway.

    More recently, we uncovered additional damage to the outside of the place, when we had some of the rendering removed, for repairs.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I've switched the alert off on our mobiles.

    My father's parents lived in Coventry during the war.  After Coventry was blitzed and they got back to their house they were unable to unlock the french doors to their garden.  A locksmith went to their house and replaced the lock.  When he opened the old lock up to investigate he discovered the mechanism had completely melted.  They could only assume that blast from one of the bombs had caused it although there was little obvious damage to the house.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Interesting that the government can access everybody's smart phone.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I hope it works better than the " track and trace " system they spent £84,000,000,000.00 of tax payers' money on, and it never worked.
    Do we get a refund ? ha ha. As if.
    Devon.
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