When the alert went off, be honest, did you think the Russia had launched one?

[Tping]

When the alert went off did you, for a fraction of a second, think Vlad had finally snapped and pressed the button?

Disappointing if he had because I if I’d known, I’d have added more loo roll to the Tesco delivery.

I expected it to be a storm alert or for flash floods not that it has actually rained. Would 'they' alert us about a missile? I suspect not because of the panic which would ensue and the fact that we can't do anything about it.

No because I can smell the fires in my house!

What alert??

No, I thought it was my car complaining about some new aspect of neglect !

No.

No, but I assumed there was a terrorist attack or an actual wildfire nearby.

Me neither, as I turned it off years ago

I heard OH's going off in the distance

I was on a jammed and boiling rush hour bus, so not only was it incredibly loud, we had a bit of a Moment I think it was obvious people were thinking terrorist attack, then some lady yelled ‘it’s about the fires’ and everyone just went oh ok 😂

Yes I did. All my 4 kids were sat in the front room and called me in cos my phone was going off. My heart stopped for a second because I did think it was the 3 minute warning

No, I was waiting in my car for someone, read it, and carried on waiting.

Houses have burned due to fires. This is serious and people need to think about what they’re doing.

I was at the airport and exact same reaction there

No, we got ours in Welsh first but I pressed something and message disappeared, I said straight away but half joking, that will be telling us not to buy disposable barbecues
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I just thought 'WTF is the awful noise'? I have two mobiles so got it in stereo.

Like a PP said I was more in a fluster to make the bloody thing stop than thinking about what the message might be.

I thought I’d set off the emergency alert on my phone (where you press the side button so many times and it calls the police) as I’d just shoved it in washing basket to take upstairs and as you can guess it had fallen to the bottom of all the clothes so I had to empty it while swearing thinking the police would be on their way!! 🤣

No was worried about their being a local wildfire

On my phone it's a bit like the sound we get when we leave the house phone out of the holster for a bit and it shouts to let us know. It's loud but a kind of muted loud so even though my phone was near me it took me a while to realise it was my phone, I couldn't work out where it was coming from initially.

Was in a pub in the city centre and first thought was terrorist attack, then when I saw the word fire thought there was one in the nearby moor.

Then read the whole thing and went back to drinking.