Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test

Sun Oct 7 23:26:12 UTC 2018

On Oct 7, 2018, at 12:23 PM, bzs at theworld.com wrote:
> That was one advantage of the old air raid siren system, it was
> difficult to ignore and required nothing special to receive (hearing
> impaired excepted.)

_Wired_ has an interesting history of the various networked and
standalone national alert systems that FEMA and its predecessors
have tried over the years, many of them of limited success:

https://www.wired.com/story/presidential-text-alert-fema-emergency-history/

	- Brian

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