Americans: be prepared for your cell phone to scream Wednesday at about 2:20pm EDT

[thewayne]

FEMA is going to be broadcasting an emergency alert test to every cell phone in the USA. I have no idea if this will bleed over to Canada or Mexico, hopefully it won't. I expect it to be kind of annoying, I should put an alert on my phone to go silent for 10-15 minutes around that time tomorrow.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/emergency-alert-test-october-4-2023-fema-fcc-cellphones-tvs-radios/

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[thewayne]

Hard to say.  I have a "Absolutely DND" that overrides all alerts when my phone is silent, we'll see how it does tomorrow.