Please check in here if your day was negatively impacted

[rzemanfl]

by someone's or your own failure to return a phone to normal operation after the test yesterday afternoon.
Mine was. Not my phone. I will keep the details to myself for the sake of my blood pressure. You may wish to share yours.

On edit-To rephrase this, did someone fuck up your day by not turning their phone back on after turning it off before the test yesterday?

[Ocelot II]

1. The test didn't do anything to my phone. It squeaked, delivered the message,

and that was it. It immediately returned to normal ops.

[rogue emissary]

2. Same here.

[rzemanfl]

5. A lot of folks turned off their phone or turned the volume down to zero, etc. before the test.

At least one person forgot to reverse what they did after the test.

[Ocelot II]

13. So it was kind of like when you're on an airplane and you turn the phone

to airplane mode, and then forget to turn it back to normal operation when you get off the plane? Whose fault is that?

[rzemanfl]

16. Just like that. I only put quotes around "alert" because it was a test.

[chillfactor]

6. My phone did the same

squealed the warning and returned to normal ops.

[wnylib]

38. Mine required me to pick on a

button that said "confirm." Once I did that, it went back to normal.

[Xavier Breath]

9. Yep, same here.

The phone is a secondary consideration anyway when zombification is on the line.

[Maru Kitteh]

15. +1

[ForgedCrank]

3. I was negatively impacted

because it scared the HELL out of me when it went off.
I was ears-deep in a spreadsheet and giving myself a headache when it started squealing at me.

[Sympthsical]

11. Similar in my household

I had things laid out on the kitchen counter because I was doing dinner prep for later. Of course, the two cats were on the other side of the counter sniffing around, waiting for me to turn my back so they could "investigate". I had my phone on the counter next to me.

And then it happened. The sound.

So after I picked up various things from the floor and wiped everything down . . .

They're still not talking to me.

[Celerity]

29. I can but imagine what would happen if you had Hesa Fredrik (Hoarse Fredrik) there.

HOOONNNK! What's that noise?

No need to freak out, Sweden

Don't be alarmed if you hear a long, deafening siren on Monday afternoon in Sweden.

It is just 'Hoarse Fredrik' – and it is only a test.

https://www.thelocal.se/20160905/whats-that-noise-no-need-to-freak-out-sweden

The siren system is tested in populated areas all over Sweden, on the first Monday of March, June, September and December at three o'clock on the dot. On all other occasions, its purpose is to inform the public of danger such as a big fire or explosion. It was first created in 1931 and has more or less stuck around in various shapes and forms since then.

The integrated warning system consists of the outdoor siren backed up by messages sent by radio and television stations across Sweden. The alert is made up of seven-second blasts interspersed with 14-second silence, followed by a longer signal which indicates "hazard over".

It sounds rather like the horn of a ship as it leaves port, which makes for a rather curious aural experience hundreds of miles inland. It was nicknamed Hoarse Fredrik (Hesa Fredrik) after a Swedish columnist at Dagens Nyheter in the 1930s, Oscar Fredrik Rydqvist, noted that it sounded like himself when he had a cold. A range of different warning system have been tested in Sweden since the war. Until 1961, air-raid sirens were tested to warn the public about potential air invasion. In 1968, the Civil Defence Committee decided that an alarm system would be tested four times a year and in 1984, the warning system was modified to what it is today.

There are about 4,500 signal horns all over Sweden. They are owned by the state but maintained by local authorities. The Civil Contingencies Agency estimates that around 50 percent of all Swedes live within earshot of the horns. So if it is not Monday and you hear a sound like an ocean liner docking in the street outside – be alarmed. And if a foreign army decides to invade on the first Monday of March, June, September or December, they may find Swedes curiously unresponsive.

[Sympthsical]

30. That's a hard no thank you

I grew up with tornado siren tests to the point you almost didn't notice them. Then I moved to the Gold Coast in Chicago and this shit started. At that point, you just assume nuclear apocalypse or alien invasion incoming.

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[Celerity]

31. those sound cray!!

[Ocelot II]

34. We get tornado warning siren tests the first Wednesday of every month

at 1:00 p.m. I just hope we don't get an actual tornado during one of those tests.

[LudwigPastorius]

36. Apparently, they not only want to warn the populace of danger, they want to...

give them all a psychotic break.

[MerryBlooms]

4. My phone alerted, I pressed ok, it dismissed and stopped alert.

Changed nothing on my phone settings. No idea what you're talking about.

[rzemanfl]

7. Please see #5 above.

[MerryBlooms]

22. Oh, my. Well, not phone issues, but I have one cat who

Is still freaked out and hiding in his little cubby in my bedroom. He was trapped here during the Almeda fire. He has severe PTSD from all the emergency alerts, sirens and explosions. He's better thus afternoon, but still not quite settled.

Good luck, folks. 💕

[Recycle_Guru]

8. are you referring to people who might have turned them off or

put into airplane mode to avoid the bulletin?

If people were negatively impacted for doing this but mot to seriously I would love to hear those kinds of tales and laugh.

[rzemanfl]

14. Exactly, things like that. I drove someone to a medical appointment

they didn't know had been cancelled because their phone was silent.

[Effete Snob]

24. Lol....

The interminable hell of an ambiguous post.

I feel your pain.

[rzemanfl]

25. I think my rephrasing of the question was unambiguous.

This is funny.

[Irish_Dem]

10. In a national emergency, lives will be saved by an alert system.

I believe this far outweighs the inconvenience of practice.

Like masks and vaccines.

Sorry if I am getting your BP up.

I grew up in the military and they took good care of us
and prepared us for emergencies. If the top brass hated us
they wouldn't have bothered.

[rzemanfl]

18. I am not criticizing the test. Here in Florida we had a mistake some months ago

which hit the phones in the middle of the night.

[Irish_Dem]

20. That would be scary.

But this is why they have to test the system.
And work out the bugs.

[Think. Again.]

12. Nope...

...no problems.

It worked like an alert on a phone.

[Tarc]

17. I was severely and negatively impacted by yesterday's event

I had a plan to rile up my dumb MAGA co-worker. I had a set of speakers hooked up to the laptop, and Michael Jackson's "Thriller" queued. When the emergency alert came, I was going to twitch, jerk a little, hit "Play", then twirl into a probably pretty bad rendition of MJ's dance moves. But a hearty rendition nonetheless.

All for naught, as he was summoned away on a call about a half-hour before alert time.

Sigh. All that planning...

[doc03]

19. I don't usually carry my phone I saw a message about the test, that's all. nt

[Ocelot II]

21. I was turned into a zombie, which for me is a positive development.

[bluesbassman]

26. It's rather liberating isn't it?

[LudwigPastorius]

37. Same here. I've started losing weight like crazy.

I live in a very red area of Texas and brains are in short supply here.

[PufPuf23]

23. Was in the examination room of a medical appointment at time of test yesterday.

Knew about the test alert and wondered how the alert would be handled.

Arrived only 5 minutes before an 11 AM appointment and didn't sit down before an aide took me to an exam room. Several folks did stuff with me and the doctor came in and out.

Asked the doctor about the test alert. "You must have missed it".

[hlthe2b]

27. I did nothing. The tv local news also had the same emergency test. Done and done...

Irritating if it happened every day, but even my doggy girl gave it the big yawn, despite the tv being pretty loud through the speakers.

[Snooper9]

28. The test on cable messed up the newest episode of Days of our Lives

LOL

[Hermit-The-Prog]

32. Don't be silly! Zombies can't use phones. Or type. Oops.

[49erCat]

33. I was napping and shut off my phone

But the alert on my Apple Watch woke me up. No problems thereafter.

[DemocraticPatriot]

35. it came before I expected it, because I had lost track of time...

then it squawked a second time shortly after....

then I smacked it!

lol

(maybe because I had not clicked on the "acknowledgement", I have no idea..)