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.

😂 ah heat alert. Yes we definitely did not get that. Always rain.

No I thought I’d set off my smoke detector as I was cooking!

Before i read the alert, after hearing the alarm i genuinely thought terrorist attacks

I can’t believe there are so many utterly stupid people that they actually need to send an emergency alert warning people that the ground is dry and therefore a high fire risk. NO SHIT SHERLOCK!!

No.

If it was 1987, then yes.

As a Russian, no I did not.

I was actually reading the Sky News notification saying they were sending one out when it came through 😂😂

No but I had just sat on my phone and I thought I had broken it 🤣

No

No, I thought "what's that?" Then I remembered, then I read the message, rolled my eyes and went back to doing the laundry. I briefly considered that the public must be pretty stupid to need a reminder not to set fire to things during a dry spell, remembered that they are, in fact stupid, and rolled my eyes again.

<disclaimer: not all the public are stupid, just most of them>

I was in the Cornwall countryside. I thought it was perhaps a nearby wildfire.

Home is London. Had I been there I would probably have assumed a terrorist attack.

Same

DH's phone got it; my immediate thought was that there was a wildfire heading our way. There's been a few arson attacks locally (rural). Assumed it was something like that.

Bugger. Just sitting here typing this and the patio door is open... the smell of smoke just wafted in.

I do not fear Vlad pressing the big button at all. He is safer, more sane than Trump or Netanyahu . Although my first fear of a terrorist attack would be from Islamic extremists.
Zelensky has Trump and Netanyahu on their team.

There are more nuclear weapons in the world now than there were in 1987, we just don’t talk about it any more. So it’s still a very credible threat.

I was on an aeroplane flying back to the UK from my holiday abroad and several phones went off as soon as we hit UK airspace. It was pretty scary to be honest

I never got an alert.