10-03-2018, 06:53 PM
TheTominator wrote:
This appears to be identical in form and function to the pre-existing Emergency Broadcast System. Have they just renamed it?
FEMA's Presidential alert was instituted four or five years ago and they're just getting around to testing it now. It's for national disasters not local weather phenomenon. TV Broadcast has had to test their systems every now and then, this is just a test for the marriage of the two systems in an emergency.
Was exactly 2:18 here according to my laptop. I heard the phone buzz twice but didn't bother picking it up as I knew what it was.