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

Wed Oct 4 19:32:33 UTC 2023

I think this is what he was referring to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Hawaii_false_missile_alert

Apparently we don't "all remember".

On 10/4/2023 1:39 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
> 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.