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An EAS participant has requested a weekly test?

 
Anonymous Coward
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01/30/2012 11:24 AM
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An EAS participant has requested a weekly test?
This just came up on screen first time ive ever saw this message. Related to FEMA quick search revealed any body else get this??? And im kinda worried now because im on the fckn madrid fault line
Anonymous Coward (OP)
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01/30/2012 11:25 AM
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Re: An EAS participant has requested a weekly test?
quick glp search revealed others have saw this as well recently yeah something about to go down in feb or march
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01/30/2012 11:27 AM
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Re: An EAS participant has requested a weekly test?
I am in favor of hourly tests.

Judethz

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01/30/2012 11:36 AM
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I am in favor of hourly tests.


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blackcat I bet you'd be real popular in your neighbourhood.
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01/30/2012 11:50 AM
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Re: An EAS participant has requested a weekly test?
in my area its been a daily occurrence..last week i got home and the box was froze on ch 4 and i had left it on 6 and EAS was on the box, cable said it happens sometimes, lol yeah right
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01/30/2012 12:01 PM
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Heard the EAS tone on the radio the am with no message at all not even one saying it was a test.
Blue Skies

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01/30/2012 12:16 PM
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Re: An EAS participant has requested a weekly test?
Are you talking about the weekly emergency test on TV......They have been doing it for years.
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01/30/2012 12:21 PM
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I didnt get one today, but I've gotten 2 in the past few months on my cell phone. (and posted 2 threads about it) Last one scared the crap out of me and a bunch of others, because it did not say test...
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02/06/2012 08:26 PM
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Re: An EAS participant has requested a weekly test?
The Emergency Alert System (EAS) in the Seattle region is normally around 1am to like 4am. I'm up often and see it a couple maybe three times a month.
This morning it was on at 7:30am on a Monday. Seemed odd to me, that is right in the middle of morning prime time TV.
I have also noticed the "weekly" I would swear it used to always say "monthly".
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Dee
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11/30/2012 03:50 AM
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Re: An EAS participant has requested a weekly test?
I remember seeing these periodically--now I've had two of them in two nights--"an eas particpant" is causing the test at 1am every day? So, basically, the message is that the Federal Government can take over our TVs any time they want?
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Tornado Warning 2;00pm
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Re: An EAS participant has requested a weekly test?
This is crap. Every 15 minutes? Seriously?
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Re: An EAS participant has requested a weekly test?
occam's razor: the simplest explanation is usually right.

I work in an industry where we have the potential to send EAS. We need to be able to do it quickly and right for that one moment that may never come. So we are required to practice the process every shift we work. We have a test console that only sends the EAS internally. Once in a while somebody screws up and the message goes out to all 150K in our jurisdictional area. Ooops, my bad.

Just guessing it's a routine test that is supposed to be internal but somebody screwed up. They're pretty easy to screw up.





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