Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, nanog08 wrote:
> Move?  ...  :-)

Off planet?

All countries in the European Union, plus at least 35 other countries 
around the world, have or will soon implement their county-specific 
version of Emergency Mobile Alerts.

Emergency alerts are built into all android, ios and other mobile phones 
sold in almost every country during the last 5 years.  GSM standards are 
global.  The U.S. finally changed "presidential alert" to "national alert" 
recently.  People in countries with Prime Ministers or monarchs used to 
complain about Presidential Alerts, when they don't have a president.

Streaming video services currently do not have emergency alerts.  So a 
tornado destroying you house will be your warning while streaming or 
watching non-broadcast and non-cable TV.