Noticing a lot of people have reported various types of alerts (EBS, Amber, on phone, TV, etc.) in the past 24-48 hours.
Testing the system?
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Friends in Atlanta are getting all sorts of AMBER Alerts right now.
Yup. The Mrs. and I got an Amber Alert a couple hours ago. Haven’t gotten one of these in over a year.
POTUS wouldn’t communicate using AMBER Alerts; instead, he’ll use the Emergency Alert system. When I went to turn off AMBER Alerts on my iPhone (Settings/Notifications then scroll to the bottom), I noticed that the Emergency Alerts were turned off and turned it on. This is probably a stretch, but what if these out of the blue AMBER Alerts are being sent to make everyone check that their Alerts (AMBER, Emergency and Public Safety) are turned on for when POTUS communicates with us. I know I wouldn’t have checked otherwise.
I am old school, just have a flip phone for emergencies only. Went into settings to check it out and there is actually a "presidential alerts" setting !