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

Wed Oct 4 18:39:04 UTC 2023

On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, Sabri Berisha wrote:
> Makes me wonder what I have to do to opt out of this. We all remember what happened in Hawaii.

Do you mean the 98 people (at least) who died due to the Maui Lahaina 
wildfires.  Seems like the same people who complain about the testing of 
public warning systems also complain when they don't get a warning about 
something that personally affected them.

Public warning systems are designed to get your attention, wake you up, 
interrupt what you are doing.

Nevertheless, I understand some people will remove the batteries from 
smoke alarms and turn off public alerts.