Same here. It did come up on the TV(Dish).
I saw the CNN crew get it. But, alas, not me. I knew I was outback in the rural wasteland of Arkansas, USA. But this just bites!
That just demostrates he doesn’t care about you. On the other hand, we all received the alert, here in the Democratic stronghold in which I live.
I got it while I was sitting on the crapper, glad I wasn’t driving in my car, if that noise came through my car’s audio I prob would have swerved or something. Wasn’t a big deal though.
Nothing on my phone. Heard my wife’s phone make horrible noises in the next room.
I got it on two cell phones. It wasn’t as loud/obnoxious as Amber alert was when it was first rolled out. I agree it should say Federal, not Presidential.
I heard several of the phones in this hallway, but mine isn’t receiving in the building, probably since it’s a cheapie flip phone. I guess if you’re not high-tech, you don’t get warned.
“BEEEEPPPPP! Presidential Alert! Yep, the shithead’s still President.”
I got the alert. And it was literally the first I’d ever heard of it.
Can’t quite swallow the Kool-Aid about Der Gropenfuhrer’s text-bombing us with nastiness; he’s still got Twitter. Given the number of people I know who’ve ditched landlines completely, a national cellphone alert system seems like it would do more good than harm.
The wife got it, I didn’t. Scared the snot out of the cats.
Turned off my phone at 1 pm, just now turned it back on. Haha! Missed me!
I have two phones, a flip phone that I pay by the minute on which did receive the alert, and an iPhone with no plan that I can use wifi with. It did not get the alert, but it does get some Amber alerts despite not being connected (I think they come through some emergency channel).
My phone is a less than 2 months old Galaxy something-or-the-other, I barely know how to answer it. I get texts somewhat better. But still, I am left out in the big wide world with no info on a possible emergency. Not that I really care. The lil’wrekker just called and asked what the heck it was all about. Apparently her and her freinds all got the alert. None of these bright college students knew anything about this. I feel a bit depressed about this, I must say.
They sent a national alert to our TV and then immediately afterwards every channel on our TV went silent and totally black. I had to call the Cable provider to have them send a signal to reset the cable box. Coincidence, possibly, but still …
I got it as a text message and I did not turn into a Republican. So, there’s that. My phone used the same tone used for Amber alerts.
I just don’t know why my alert also had a picture of Toad in it.
I got the alert at the office. I heard a number of phones going off around me, but it was no biggee, as I had my phone silenced and saw the alert flash across the screen.
I can’t believe the systems didn’t just crash. Our infrastructure may not be as bad as I thought it was.
I got the alert. I now see it in my text messaging app as coming from #CMAS#CMASALL along with all the Amber alerts I’ve received. I wonder what happens if I reply?
My classroom is deep inside the building so I didn’t get an alert (I’m on AT&T), but my students who were on Verizon did. Only a few knew about it ahead of time (they’re college students).
SO - if you didn’t get the alert at that moment, you don’t ever get notified? No alerts when reception improves? That seems like a failure in the design of the system.
I was substitute teaching today, supervising a classroom full of high school kids taking a math test. Despite warning them that this alert was scheduled to occur many were very startled when about 20 phones all started making an alert sound at the same time.
We turned it into a little experiment. I turned my ringer and application volumes off and my phone did not make a sound. Some phones that were turned off when the alert was sent showed the alert when turned back on, but other phones didn’t. We were curious what the limitations of the system would be.