How to Sign Up for Local Emergency Alerts Before Natural Disasters Strike – The Markup
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We know early warning systems save lives. Give yourself extra time when disasters come your way
  • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
    18·
    2 months ago

    Be sure to wear ear-pods on your iPhone, so you get the alert message at 100% full volume into your ears… This will help you to gain an additional super-power called: Tinnitus.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Yes but at least you’re now aware of the incredibly mild issue.

      I’ve had, “warning a tree has fallen over and is blocking a minor road”, and “there is some fog”.

  • GreenPlasticSushiGrass@moist.catsweat.com
    9·
    2 months ago

    I remember one year I heard that weather radios save lives, so I bought them for the whole family one Christmas. They might save more lives if they weren’t loud pains in the ass that eventually get turned off.

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    Hell, I disabled that shit. A year into Covid, I got an emergency blaring away on my phone at 2AM to let me know that there was a pandemic going on. Thanks, Sherlock. Now I laugh as people get warnings about things that happen 500km away and can’t possibly affect them.

    Government using it like their own private Twitter ensured I’ll disable it on every new phone I get going forward.

  • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    Actually handy. My city doesn’t have disaster sirens, but they do have emergency text alerts I didn’t know about.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      The software is on all phones but your local government has to make use of it. For the longest time the UK government didn’t use it and now they’ve adopted it and are obsessed with it.

      They’ve now fortunately realized that irritating everyone with it means that they just turn it off eventually, so they’ve calmed down with it somewhat.

      But I believe they are on by default so if you’ve never had an alert it’s probably because your local government don’t use it.