Did you actually do that? I've never heard you have to do that before. I've seen a lot of people post today that they got the EBS test but have never gotten one before.
Yes. If you don't get a number assigned to you in the location you live because you moved and kept your originally assigned number, your county has literally no way of knowing to send you information unless you let them know.
This resulted in some humor for me a few years back when my coworker in the continental US got a "BALLISTIC MISSILE INBOUND, THIS IS NOT A DRILL" message on his phone because he used to live in Hawaii and that is where he got his cell number assigned.
Yes, our emergency management system is that fucking fragile.
Wow. Good to know. I honestly had no idea that was necessary. I suppose it makes sense, but with the sophistication of technology these days, I wouldn't have thought it necessary. Thanks for explaining and that was funny about your co-worker.
This was one of the reasons Trump pushed for modernizing our alerting systems.
Technically when we fire off a reverse 911 we can drop a geoboundary and that works, but the alerting systems with IPAWS isn't where it should be yet. Though I think with recent updates that might finally be fixed.
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Do you normally get it monthly? I have never gotten a test to my phone before.
I think one of Trumps last EO was an update to the EBS system.
Do you actually get it every month? Just wondering why some do and some don't.
Register your number with your county.
Did you actually do that? I've never heard you have to do that before. I've seen a lot of people post today that they got the EBS test but have never gotten one before.
Yes. If you don't get a number assigned to you in the location you live because you moved and kept your originally assigned number, your county has literally no way of knowing to send you information unless you let them know.
This resulted in some humor for me a few years back when my coworker in the continental US got a "BALLISTIC MISSILE INBOUND, THIS IS NOT A DRILL" message on his phone because he used to live in Hawaii and that is where he got his cell number assigned.
Yes, our emergency management system is that fucking fragile.
Wow. Good to know. I honestly had no idea that was necessary. I suppose it makes sense, but with the sophistication of technology these days, I wouldn't have thought it necessary. Thanks for explaining and that was funny about your co-worker.
This was one of the reasons Trump pushed for modernizing our alerting systems.
Technically when we fire off a reverse 911 we can drop a geoboundary and that works, but the alerting systems with IPAWS isn't where it should be yet. Though I think with recent updates that might finally be fixed.
In the last 20 days I've received 4 Amber, 2 corporate, and one test alert, the test being today.