Government alert?!?!

[hotmumshit]

Omg? First use of the government phone alerts, i think??

We were in a restaurant with friends and people thought it was the restaurant’s smoke alarm. Then there were a few comments from other diners and the four of us reached for our phones. By this point 40+ phones are going off. It was creepy and a bit end of the world type of feeling! Then it went off again on my phone when we left the restaurant.

Not nationwide.

I’ve had the notification 4 times in the last half an hour, ridiculous!

Ahh! Well, I'm not just a hot mum and gif addict you know 😏

Yes, just saw that on that Ch 5 prog and thought 'Maybe they should do one now about lighting fires?' But maybe modern kids would react differently... (in any case, it was only us feeble or nervous kids who were scared - a lot of kids carried on regardless or were positively encouraged)...

I still think 'Jimmyyyy!' when I pass an electricity substation... ⚡️😁

Now, this is my special subject 😆
Yes, the AIDS ads.... they give me the creeps. I can not watch them when it is dark out 😂Don't die of ignorance.

And the Protect and Survive.. also how to bag up a loved one died and leave them in a bin liner outside with a tag. Great times.

Watch the New Tricks episode The Queens Speech They were basically telling ppl to dig their own graves

Not RTFT, too long, but I'm sure there's more than me who's surprised that the Govt has only just noticed that it's hot out there & we've had no rain.. what next, banning portable BBQ's?

Rolls eyes..

They could have sent an alert out about walking dogs in this weather... or leaving them in cars.
And also hosepipe usage.

Honestly, a 3 yr old could do a better job of running the country..

I think we should bring them back. A water safety one would have been useful this year and it could be put on insta, TikTok etc to target the young.

Outline that thinking please?

I think it was a great time to send out an alert. There are loads of idiots who were planning to head out with disposable bbqs or chucking ciggies around this weekend, now they can’t say no-one told them not to.

Was driving ... thought the car had an oil fault!!!

I think it’ss good idea, but would like to turn the volume down because I genuinely think if I had been driving that I would have crashed the car.
Can I turn it down on my iPhone rather than off?

@Starrylawn - it's been hot for ages. No rain, = more risk of fire. BBQ's were on sale until yesterday / today. Can't be only me who thinks this was stupid.

I’m pretty sure that if government regularly intervened in what shops sold and when it wouldn’t be viewed positively.

We are in an unprecedented time of extreme heat caused by climate change. There are no rule books. ‘Government’ are just people doing the best they can.

There’s no option to receive the messages without the loud sound, which is why I’ve just switched the alerts off.

Jeez. It was an alert about a very real and immediate danger. We're a small island, wildfires are a huge threat in bone dry conditions like these. I can't believe people are so overdramatic as to turn the alerts off.

Yes.

It worked, though. AIDS isn't the thing it once was, partly through changes in behaviour like condom use, regular testing for those considered most at risk.

@Starrylawn Not good enough, in my opinion.
I wonder if the Govt even asked firefighters for their thoughts DAYS ago?

I was driving my new car which I’d only picked up a few hours earlier, I thought it was malfunctioning.

There's another thread going at the moment, complaining that the campsite they're due to stay at has banned barbeques so the alert is obviously timely and needed.

Why did I need 3 alerts about this?