So I got an Emergency Alert on my phone today. Tones, flashing light, etc.

Of course, I grabbed the phone and looked at it straight away.

It was warning me that there might be some heavy snow and high winds starting this afternoon in my county…Really not an “emergency” and really not something to use the Emergency Alert system for.

It is a good way to get me and people like me to turn off the Emergency Alerts notification entirely……

If you want a system like that and don’t want people to ignore it, whoever is in charge needs to use a modicum of intelligence as to WHEN to use it.  Like when there is an actual or pending EMERGENCY. This is NW Indiana…we get snow, even lake effect snow, in the winter.  It happens every year. Not an Emergency. It is forecast on all 4 major networks and on the radio. Either way, not what I consider an emergency.

I’m really surprised it didn’t advise me to rush out to the store and get milk and bread.

Last time I got a useless alert was when some stupid bint in the health department decided that it would be a good idea to use the Emergency Alert system to remind me (several times) that I needed to get a Covid jab. I and a whole bunch of others complained about that one and I heard she got her access taken away.