Why Did My Cell Phone Ring Overnight? New Fairfax County system used for wireless emergency alerts.
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Date: July 15, 2013 08:56AM
Why Did My Cell Phone Ring Overnight?
New Fairfax County system used for wireless emergency alerts.
http://oakton.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/why-did-my-cell-phone-ring-overnight_3ee7f3ec
Why did my cell phone buzz in the middle of the night with a flash flood warning alert?
That is the question many Fairfax County residents have been asking Friday morning, as thousands of them received emergency alerts overnight.
It is a new system from Fairfax County. The overnight messages were sent from the National Weather Service alerting residents to flash flooding warnings based on their location.
More than 3.5 inches of rain fell at Dulles International Airport in a three-hour span late Thursday and into Friday.
The county is encouraging wireless users to keep getting alerts so they can be informed in a case of a big emergency such as a tornado. They say the alerts are not intended to be used frequently.
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New Fairfax County system used for wireless emergency alerts.
http://oakton.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/why-did-my-cell-phone-ring-overnight_3ee7f3ec
Why did my cell phone buzz in the middle of the night with a flash flood warning alert?
That is the question many Fairfax County residents have been asking Friday morning, as thousands of them received emergency alerts overnight.
It is a new system from Fairfax County. The overnight messages were sent from the National Weather Service alerting residents to flash flooding warnings based on their location.
More than 3.5 inches of rain fell at Dulles International Airport in a three-hour span late Thursday and into Friday.
The county is encouraging wireless users to keep getting alerts so they can be informed in a case of a big emergency such as a tornado. They say the alerts are not intended to be used frequently.
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Re: Why Did My Cell Phone Ring Overnight? New Fairfax County system used for wireless emergency alerts.
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flashy
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Date: July 15, 2013 09:11AM
Yes this woke me up I thought the bombs were on the way
Re: Why Did My Cell Phone Ring Overnight? New Fairfax County system used for wireless emergency alerts.
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not frequently?
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Date: July 15, 2013 09:29AM
"They say the alerts are not intended to be used frequently."
Then why did I get 1 at midnight, 1 at 3:00 AM, 2 between 6:30 and 7:00 on my drive to work, and a fifth one once I got to my office in Arlington? Yeah, when that happens, the emergency alerts get turned off.
Not frequently my ass.
Then why did I get 1 at midnight, 1 at 3:00 AM, 2 between 6:30 and 7:00 on my drive to work, and a fifth one once I got to my office in Arlington? Yeah, when that happens, the emergency alerts get turned off.
Not frequently my ass.
Re: Why Did My Cell Phone Ring Overnight? New Fairfax County system used for wireless emergency alerts.
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Cry Wolf
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Date: July 15, 2013 09:38AM
Whoever decided to send the alerts out again and again should be fired. Wonder how many people have now permanently disabled the alerts on their phones thanks to some idiot bureaucrat?
Re: Why Did My Cell Phone Ring Overnight? New Fairfax County system used for wireless emergency alerts.
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Cal Jammer
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Date: July 15, 2013 09:39AM
My Jitterbug phone was blowing up last night. The same crap was happening to me.
Re: Why Did My Cell Phone Ring Overnight? New Fairfax County system used for wireless emergency alerts.
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wut
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Date: July 16, 2013 03:44AM
These alerts are not due to a fairfax county program, they are a FEMA/FCC program.
Re: Why Did My Cell Phone Ring Overnight? New Fairfax County system used for wireless emergency alerts.
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Zak
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Date: July 16, 2013 11:51AM
Yeah, keep the f*cking government out of my life..... But when I get stranded in flood water or stuck under my house when a tree falls on the roof because I didn't evacuate, the f*cking fire dept better be johnny-on-the-spot and come rescue me!!
Yeah!1!1!1
Yeah!1!1!1