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Yonnie3

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1. Yes - that is why my phone is set to vibrate only on all alerts.

Reply to Blueplanet (Original post)

Wed Oct 3, 2018, 04:55 PM

Oct 2018

I was driving in NoVA when a weather warning of a severe thunderstorm startled me badly. I was already in the storm. Later that day I found the settings for alerts and changed them to be silent. This includes presidential alerts.

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Alert Dangerous While Driving [View all] Blueplanet Oct 2018 OP

Yes - that is why my phone is set to vibrate only on all alerts. Yonnie3 Oct 2018 #1

Yes-you can set your phone for no texts while driving Blueplanet Oct 2018 #2

I get them, just no sounds. The phone only vibrates. Yonnie3 Oct 2018 #4

scared the crap out of me on a busy interstate rurallib Oct 2018 #3