Wireless Emergency Alert on my phone blasted me out of bed at 4:00 am

[fleur-de-lisa]

to tell me that coastal Louisiana can expect high winds and rain starting in about 36 hours due to Sally.

36 hours? Couldn’t the alarm have waited until 6:00 am? Now I have a migraine and I’m sleep deprived.

I am so freaking sick of 2020.

Dump needs to pull out his magic sharpie and divert Sally to the northwest to drown the fires.

[marybourg]

1. A coupla' years ago, we were all awakened by an Amber Alert

@ 2 A.M. . I then turned off all alerts. Now I’m awakened at 3 A.M. by having to pee!

[True Blue American]

3. Same here!

[Poiuyt]

18. Three old men were having a discussion the other day

The first one said, "I get up at 8:00 and pee like a racehorse."

The second one said, "I get up at 8:00 and shit like a goose."

The third one said, "At 8:00 I pee like a racehorse and shit like a goose. But I don't get up until 9:00."

[True Blue American]

21. :)

[LisaL]

4. I had a similar thing happen recently.

A loud alert in the middle of the night about a child missing. I am not going to find a child in the middle of the night while I am sleeping in my bed.
But it doesn't happen very often so I left the alerts on (well, actually I have no clue how to turn them off).

[Buckeye_Democrat]

8. Same thing happened to me!

And those alerts seem loud enough to wake the dead!

[Baclava]

19. Yep, I turned off alerts too, just about all app notifications too, except my Amazon deliveries!

[RazzleCat]

20. You can just adjust

I have an iPhone, so I have Amber Alerts set as text only, but weather as full alarm. I live in tornado country (Missouri), so yeah, wake me up.

[LeftInTX]

22. I'll check my phone

I would rather get an Amber Alert via text anyway.

You get the damn thing, then you can't even find the information! You got two seconds to memorize the license plate of a car that is up to 500 miles away!

[SlogginThroughIt]

23. Oh man thats rough

Imagine being the parent who’s kid has been abducted.

[malaise]

2. Cat 2

Stay safe

[smirkymonkey]

5. Well that's a hell of a head's up!

Sorry you had such a rude awakening. As someone who likes to sleep in on weekends, that would have really disturbed me. It doesn't really sound like a life-threatening emergency, but still wise to be alert.

Stay safe and take care!

[malaise]

7. You need time to evacuate

49 hours notice is good

[smirkymonkey]

9. Is Sally going to be that bad?

I haven't been following it that closely. I thought it would just be high winds and rain, but nothing very serious. Perhaps it has taken a turn for the worse.

[Zorro]

10. Now projected to be a Cat 2 hurricane

[fleur-de-lisa]

11. No, it won't be that bad.

36 hours is kinda ridiculous. We don’t live on an island. We’ve been told to watch this storm starting several days ago. People who live in low-lying areas have had a plan in place since June.

Local news and twitter are giving the local NWS all kinds of hell for blasting an alarm at 4:00 am. You can’t do much outside until the sun comes up. You can’t go to the pharmacy or grocery store at that hour. All they did was piss off a bunch of people.

[BumRushDaShow]

16. I think the issue is that a chunk of your state was devastated by Hurricane Laura

that made landfall to your west (granted, a couple hundred miles away), that it behooves that people be aware given tracks can change. If anything, the state itself may need to deal with fresh disaster declarations.



This is what Laura did to the Lake Charles Doppler radar (KLCH) -



The hope is that something similar doesn't happen to yours (KLIX), although Sally is not expected to be as strong as Laura was, but you guys are missing some radar coverage down there and these things tend to spin up tornadoes too.

[fleur-de-lisa]

24. We have multiple storms every season.

Most of us have lived here a long time. We know what to do.

[BumRushDaShow]

25. I understand

It's a 50-year hobby for me!

The NWS usually has criteria they use to generate those EAS (formerly EBS) alerts ("EAS" being relatively "new" - since ~2007) in the scheme of weather alerts. I have been EAS'd in the past year in the middle of the night for tornado warnings (for the city, which would be rare) and just this past January for the new "Snow Squall Warning", which seemed to have garnered about as much pushback as you describe for the Hurricane Warning, although it was because so many major 100+ car/truck accidents have happened during sudden snow squalls.

I think they don't want to be blamed for not following whatever criteria they had planned for with respect to the timing of the alerts.

[Hugin]

6. I appreciate the need for these alert systems as a public service.

But, it would be nice if there were a way to adjust the volume.

It has a bad effect on the cold war olds. I'm getting a little tired here in 2020 of pulling my spouse out from under the closest heavy object by the ankles after one of them goes off.

[fleur-de-lisa]

12. LOL! I know!

I guess the volume has to be high for those with hearing issues, but I agree, why can’t we adjust the volume if we don’t have hearing problems?

My phone is set to silent from ten pm to six am, but when that emergency alert is sent, it bypasses my settings and blasts it out at the highest volume. One day someone’s gonna have a heart attack after one of these alarms.

[localroger]

13. (checks phone) Hmmm, mine did the same thing

Fortunately it spends the night on its charger cable in my office, which is diagonally opposite from the bedroom. If I need to put it any further from me while I sleep I'll have to leave it in the car.

[fleur-de-lisa]

14. Good idea. I'm putting my phone in the attic tonight.

[USALiberal]

15. "Blasted"......really?? nt

[Solly Mack]

17. :) Stay safe. Nap when you can.