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This bloody emergency alert

403 replies

Random789 · 21/04/2023 21:07

It's going to be like when they test the fire alarm at work, isn't it?
You get more and more tense waiting for it, then three minutes before it is due to go off you forget all about it. Then it does go off and you scream like a lunatic and jump so hard that you dislocate something in your neck.

I'd rather just get fried in a nuclear attack and avoid all the stress.

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disappointed101 · 23/04/2023 15:02

I haven’t had one yet. My husbands went off

Gingerlygreen · 23/04/2023 15:03

Haven't had mine either, I'm on 3, dh is on EE and had his at 2.59

Oakbeam · 23/04/2023 15:03

Well, that was an anticlimax!

Nothing. Not a peep.

SomebodysMum · 23/04/2023 15:03

4 phones in my house, 3 went off, 1 didn’t. I’ve checked and emergency notifications are on. Anyone else it just didn’t work for?

FangedFrisbee · 23/04/2023 15:03

It wasn't even that dramatic

MicrowaveRice · 23/04/2023 15:03

None here!

Titusgroan · 23/04/2023 15:03

disappointed101 · 23/04/2023 15:02

I haven’t had one yet. My husbands went off

The last two posters said their dh got it. My sons got it. I didnt
Just guys then 🤣🤯

Womencanlift · 23/04/2023 15:03

Nothing here too. Although I did hear ones from outside about 2.55. What an anti climax

BirdChirp · 23/04/2023 15:04

Had mine, made me jump even though I was well aware it was coming just 3 minutes before it happened.

19lottie82 · 23/04/2023 15:04

I didn’t get one 😭

NeverDropYourMooncup · 23/04/2023 15:04

Anybody crying and shaking yet?

Iwasjustasking · 23/04/2023 15:05

@NeverDropYourMooncup thats made me laugh 🤣

Shufflebumnessie · 23/04/2023 15:06

DH phone went off at 14.59, I was sitting 1 meter away and still not had anything (& I have the newer phone).

carriedout · 23/04/2023 15:07

I'm watching the snooker and they did not all ring at once, one has only just gone off.

Summersizzle · 23/04/2023 15:07

My phone with O2 hasn't got it. My work phone did but no idea what network that is with.

NeverDropYourMooncup · 23/04/2023 15:08

Random789 · 23/04/2023 07:00

However, we don't want to see you on MN after a disaster of some sort, moaning that you didn't have any advance warning!

Oooh, I love the idea of a post-apocalypse Mumsnet. There could be all sorts of threads about bunker etiquette and the best moisturiser for radioactive skin decay.

Haven't you been on Style & Beauty? It's clearly LRP Cicaplast.

Socialdistancechampion · 23/04/2023 15:08

Mine went of at 1459 I didn't even read what it said just hit ok to shut it up

Scalottia · 23/04/2023 15:08

NeverDropYourMooncup · 23/04/2023 15:04

Anybody crying and shaking yet?

😂 I needed a laugh today!

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 23/04/2023 15:09

Socialdistancechampion · 23/04/2023 15:08

Mine went of at 1459 I didn't even read what it said just hit ok to shut it up

I didn't read it either! I don't even think I hit ok, just touched the screen

Oakbeam · 23/04/2023 15:09

Hey hey!

Just had it.

DeadButDelicious · 23/04/2023 15:09

I'm on EE and got it at 2:59pm, don't know if DH got his, he's at work.

TonTonMacoute · 23/04/2023 15:12

Nothing here on either phone.

Aquarius1234 · 23/04/2023 15:12

I heard beeps while listening to the radio
Then saw the text on my phone
It's always on silent so no idea If it made noise..

EsmaCannonball · 23/04/2023 15:12

Haven't had mine yet. Out in quite a busy place and nobody's phone seems to have gone off.

LaffTaff · 23/04/2023 15:13

Four phones here, hubby's work phone is the only one that got the alert!

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