On Wednesday, October 4 at 2:20 p.m. ET, every TV, radio and cellphone in the United States will blare the warning tone of an emergency alert, and a voice saying something like this: “This is a test of the Emergency Alert System. This is only a test.”
Very strange that this should be renewed after such a long time. Normally this system is used for local area emergencies and it’s been years since I heard it blasting out of my television because of some local disaster. We used to have the Civil Defense system that started up in the 1960’s, and every radio had two little triangular marks on the dial indicating the stations to hear emergency broadcasts in case of local or national emergency. Now they can shout at us on every single communication device nationwide, simultaneously, it seems.
I suppose they need to test this to make sure it works as they want it to, and no doubt it’s a good thing, but I learned a long time ago that our government is far more concerned about their own welfare and agenda than they are of ours, so forgive me if I’m just a little bit suspicious of their motives.