Where were you today when the national emergency alert system pinged on your phone?

[Westfacing]

I was on the Tube heading towards King's Cross.

Fellow passengers were impressed that it worked deep underground!

At home hoovering. Couldn't hear a thing! Absolutely useless if it was meant to be an alert....

Decathlon car park, manoeuvring towards the exit.

Thank goodness as it freaked me out, I thought it was another car or something terribly wrong with mine and I slammed my brakes on.

Yes, I did know it was due to happen but it had gone out of my mind / I wasn’t really aware that it was 3 o’clock

Over the park sitting chatting to my friend

In a pub loo. I’m terrified of water pipes and public loos are a nightmare. The siren certainly sped up the process.

Yeah it will. We had it last year with a big weather warning and it told us what to do/not do.

in this very chair scrolling. Jumped out of my skin then texted the kids asking if it startled them too! Son hasn’t replied (typical) but DD said it surprised her even though we were just talking about it the other day - we both forgot when it was going to happen.

Same

In a restaurant. Alerts were going off at least 10 minutes after the original set time. It became quite funny, people joking that they were really important so they’d been alerted twice, that sort of thing.

Out for a walk and didn't have my phone with me.

I was cooking our first roast dinner of the autumn. I thought my timer was going off!

You’re terrified of pipes? How did this fear come about? That’s so unusual.

At a Country Fair watching the heavy horse Show Champion doing his lap of honour.

I thought that. Never known anyone to be afraid of water pipes before. Fear of flooding?

There mainly used for flooding and extreme weather events so will tell you what to do

Sofa, got it in English and Welsh, obviously we are picking mobile signal up from wales

I was in Sainsburys and my phone was at home!

I heard plenty of other people's alarms going off.

I'm not in the habit of taking my phone with me everywhere.

My alert is switched off
Dh’s is on but he didn’t get anything.🤷‍♀️

I was with friends, most of our phones didn't go off. Mine remained totally silent.

I was at the cinema and completely forgot 😂 a few of us hastily turned it off.

Volunteering in a stately home and talking about the Norman Conquest with a visitor.

We both jumped😁

At an athletics meet. I’d switched mine off, but it gave one of the timekeepers I was stood next to a bit of a surprise!

In the summer house with a glass of wine, having done 2 hours of gardening.

Knitting. It made me jump and drop a stitch.

I must have been out, I think I remember looking at the phone to see my shopping list and noting I had about 7% charge left and then was walking round the supermarket

Didnt hear anything, perhaps it doesnt work if you dont have a fully charged phone?