“ just needed to prove that the OP was a scam in itself, ”
Is it? My inclination is simply to say whoever wrote the preamble just got muddled. The link at the end does not take you to a scammer’s site, indeed it does not take you anywhere because the link is faulty.
“ Where did that original photoshot come from, anyone know? ”
I took up the challenge @lyn and have just spent a fruitless 20 minutes doing a text search and a reverse image search. The only overlap I could find was a Facebook posting on site dedicated to the Morrison family.
It certainly looks like the detail posted is false and the misinformation is disturbing for some. Perhaps @rowlandscastle444 who posted the original can enlighten us to the source.
Sorry to take so long to get back to you @BenCotto I've been working in the garden in the spring sunshine.
When I posted the original information up, it was solely to simply remind those here, of the alert system. I did not foresee the lengthy debate that has ensued.
My sincere apologies.
The original photoshot came from the notice sheet put together by my local church. I simply saw it as a reminder that my mobile phone might actually ring on Sunday. It rarely does - because I have the alerts set as silent.
I'm an easy going person, unfazed by most things - except for the one occasion I panicked because I was late for a flight. My wife regales friends and family of the dash through the airport with me calling for people to make way, since I had a plane to catch!! "Everyone has" she yelled back, fighting back the tears of laughter. Not my finest moment.
Anyhow, I digress. I had no idea that I would cause such discussion.
“ just needed to prove that the OP was a scam in itself, ”
Is it? My inclination is simply to say whoever wrote the preamble just got muddled. The link at the end does not take you to a scammer’s site, indeed it does not take you anywhere because the link is faulty.
I'd not worry too much @rowlandscastle444 . At least your post highlighted something which I ( and perhaps others ? ) hadn't been aware of before. Up to the individual to delve further ( or not )
An interesting (to me anyway) fact about the four minute warning .... which would have been a bit less, probably three and a half minutes .... is that it was a sop provided by the Americans for including the UK in their ballistic missile detection system sited on UK soil.
The Americans would have received a 10 minute warning of a preemptive strike which would have provided enough time for them to launch a retaliatory strike, 10 minutes being the estimated time from launch to detonation of a Soviet missile targeted on the US. Of course it would have taken only three minutes for ICBMs to start raining down on the UK.
Anyway, 4 minutes' or 10 minutes' or even an hour's warning would be insufficient time to save millions of civilian lives so from a humanitarian point of view the warning time is academic.
They didn't give it the acronym MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) for nothing !
When there's always biscuits in the tin, where's the fun in biscuits ?
As we don’t live in a country which experiences extreme weather it seems a bit redundant. If I lived by a river and it rained constantly I would not need an alert to tell me it may flood. That’s why I would never live by water. It doesn’t worry me but I do wonder how much all this has cost? Maybe it’s a pet project of one of Rishi’s cronies
But we do experience extreme weather and the incidents are becoming more frequent. You might not have been affected by the ‘87 hurricane, but out in the Suffolk countryside it was devastating … homes were destroyed! And floods don’t just happen because of rain … there are high spring tides which, if the wind veers the wrong way, can cause major flooding of roads and homes near tidal areas, and there are car parks which have to be vacated if a tidal stretch of a river is likely to breach its banks.
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/23110554.flood-alerts-place-ipswich-woodbridge-suffolk/ People who grew up locally understand the tides … but nowadays there are loads of people living in the area who have no understanding of how the tides affect the riverside properties where they live … and we live in an island … a huge amount of land is affected by the tides, it’s not just the coast that’s affected … eg the River Yare is tidal as far inland as Norwich … I have known underground carparks near the river in the centre of the city to be flooded when there was an unusually high spring tide.
I was affected by the hurricane of 1987. I remember hearing a huge crash overnight, and in the morning checked the garden. The main trunk of a large tree missed the house by a matter of feet. It was a miracle that the house remained (mostly) undamaged, but I couldn't get to London by train, and there was an almighty mess in the garden.
A holiday in the Cotswolds taught me a lesson - they didn't name Morton-in-Marsh for no reason!!
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The second option takes you to the legitimate site.
I've been working in the garden in the spring sunshine.
When I posted the original information up, it was solely to simply remind those here, of the alert system. I did not foresee the lengthy debate that has ensued.
My sincere apologies.
The original photoshot came from the notice sheet put together by my local church.
I simply saw it as a reminder that my mobile phone might actually ring on Sunday. It rarely does - because I have the alerts set as silent.
I'm an easy going person, unfazed by most things - except for the one occasion I panicked because I was late for a flight. My wife regales friends and family of the dash through the airport with me calling for people to make way, since I had a plane to catch!!
"Everyone has" she yelled back, fighting back the tears of laughter. Not my finest moment.
Anyhow, I digress. I had no idea that I would cause such discussion.
Thank you for pointing this out.
The Americans would have received a 10 minute warning of a preemptive strike which would have provided enough time for them to launch a retaliatory strike, 10 minutes being the estimated time from launch to detonation of a Soviet missile targeted on the US. Of course it would have taken only three minutes for ICBMs to start raining down on the UK.
Anyway, 4 minutes' or 10 minutes' or even an hour's warning would be insufficient time to save millions of civilian lives so from a humanitarian point of view the warning time is academic.
They didn't give it the acronym MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) for nothing !
People who grew up locally understand the tides … but nowadays there are loads of people living in the area who have no understanding of how the tides affect the riverside properties where they live … and we live in an island … a huge amount of land is affected by the tides, it’s not just the coast that’s affected … eg the River Yare is tidal as far inland as Norwich … I have known underground carparks near the river in the centre of the city to be flooded when there was an unusually high spring tide.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
A holiday in the Cotswolds taught me a lesson - they didn't name Morton-in-Marsh for no reason!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.