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    mattkozGabrielle Bluestone
    7/01/15 10:18am

    It’s too bad you can’t choose which alerts under the emergency category. I was awakened by my phone for a tornado warning last year. I was thankful because we were able to take shelter, and it was targeted right for us. Thankfully, it ended up fizzling out and everyone was safe. Without that phone alert, had it remained powerful and bore right down on us, we would not have been in a safe position.

    However, the flooding warnings are not useful to us at all. Our property is in no danger of flooding.

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      formergrmattkoz
      7/01/15 10:21am

      Exactly. Earthquakes, tornadoes, fires, terrorist attacks (I’m in DC) etc I definitely want to be alerted to. But flash floods? Please. I live in a city—we are not going to be in mortal danger from a flash flood anytime soon.

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      Tracemattkoz
      7/01/15 10:22am

      Fucking this. I ALSO have no idea how anyone can not know there’s probably flooding, why is this an alert to begin with? LOOK OUTSIDE. IS IT RAINING HARD? YES? FLOODING IS PROBABLY PRESENT. DON’T BE STUPID.

      Don’t bother me unless a tornado is going to hit my damn apartment complex. I do have amber alerts still on my phone because it’s so rare when that happens, but yeah, this has been off for me for a while.

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    Sean BrodyGabrielle Bluestone
    7/01/15 10:16am

    My Android already knows to not make a fucking peep between 10p and 6a

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      TwerkTuesdaySean Brody
      7/01/15 10:19am

      Ooo....how do you do that??

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      commanderSPAMSean Brody
      7/01/15 10:19am

      How do you get the Android to to do that?

      Also, it bothers me that the phone will warn me about floods but not actual tornadoes.

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    ohhnoyoudiintGabrielle Bluestone
    7/01/15 10:17am

    The Amber Alert in Manhattan yesterday was particularly absurd. Oh, a black SUV? Hardly any of those around here!

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      JVBaseballSuperstarohhnoyoudiint
      7/01/15 10:24am

      One in Michigan once read, “A Black male with two black children in a truck.” Really? I’m sure some people where more than happy to call the police on every black guy in a truck with his kids.

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      WhoWhatWhereWhenDieJVBaseballSuperstar
      7/01/15 10:33am

      Black male is like 5% of the population, no? Then parlay the 5%, with exactly 2 kids AND a truck, you’re damn sure I’m calling the cops if I notice that scenario

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    C.T. Rex PopeGabrielle Bluestone
    7/01/15 10:17am

    That’s just what the people of Pompeii said when they turned off their emergency scroll services!!

    GIF
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      MisterC.T. Rex Pope
      7/01/15 10:59am

      It led to one helluva concert though.

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    MiniatureamericanflagsforothersGabrielle Bluestone
    7/01/15 10:20am

    “Realize your ancestors made it through life just fine without obnoxious, unwanted iPhone alerts, which is how you’re here today. Scrunch around in your bed, maybe go back to sleep.”

    — Am I the only millenial that turns his phone off at night?

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      gravit8Miniatureamericanflagsforothers
      7/01/15 10:32am

      The replacement battery industry hates you.

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    Frankenbike666Gabrielle Bluestone
    7/01/15 1:29pm

    Realize your ancestors made it through life just fine without obnoxious, unwanted iPhone alerts, which is how you’re here today. Scrunch around in your bed, maybe go back to sleep.

    Well, sure, because our ancestors survived to reproduce, QED. But maybe a few of the people who have no living descendants, might have survived that flash flood or escaped the murderous horde if they had phones, and phone alerts back then.

    However, this would not be a problem for me. I leave the phone in a whole other room, because there’s always going to be something I forgot to turn off or some app spamming my notifications. I don’t see much of a difference between DNDing my phone and leaving it in another room.

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      No Tats For BratsFrankenbike666
      7/01/15 3:06pm

      I take it you’ve never actually gotten one of these alerts. It doesn’t use the usual alert sound of your phone, it’s plays a horrible EBS sound that screeches and whines. And it plays at a volume you never thought your phone was capable of, regardless of what your volume settings are.

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      Frankenbike666No Tats For Brats
      7/02/15 5:17pm

      That must be an iPhone only thing. The emergency alerts on my phone use the regular alarm settings.

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    secretagentmanGabrielle Bluestone
    7/01/15 10:25am

    Haha, I have a Blackberry, they don’t do that. They don’t do very much at all, which is what I like. I am old.

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      northbxsecretagentman
      7/01/15 11:50am

      I have one too and it will alert if I keep it in anything but Phone Only mode. I’m happy to leave it in Phone Only mode.

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    gravit8Gabrielle Bluestone
    7/01/15 10:30am

    This is the worst. The first time time one of those alarms go off in the middle of the night, it’s a sheer panic mode experience. “WTF IS THAT SOUND OMG OMG IS THE HOUSE ON FIRE WTF WTF WTGMF!?!?” as you scramble around the room, trying to dig your otherwise inert phone out from the pile of clothes that is your dirty laundry. “Did I wear my blue jeans yesterday? NO! I wore my cargo shorts!” By this time everybody in the house is awake because they’re going through the same ordeal, and when you finally get the thing turned off you’re so amped from adrenalin you won’t be getting back to sleep anytime soon.

    And this is how most people come to realize their phone settings can be overridden by emergency alerts, because they never go off in the afternoon when you’re wide awake and not likely to be pissed some 4 year old has an amber alert out for them (sorry kid, unless the kidnapper is trying to break into my house at 3AM, you’re SOL).

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      fundamentalsGabrielle Bluestone
      7/01/15 11:21am

      ‘do not disturb’ option will keep notifications coming without the sound.

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        NYCBritfundamentals
        7/01/15 12:09pm

        Nope. Not with the latest IoS upgrade. Not even with the switch set to silent

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        fundamentalsNYCBrit
        7/01/15 12:12pm

        sure you can. it’s right below the notifications. it’s how i slept through the night.

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      LadyDieGabrielle Bluestone
      7/01/15 10:36am

      I used to work the public desk at a library in New York. One day I’m in the reserves when I hear a fucking klaxon going off the reading room. I run out to determine what the issue is and what to do and realize it’s my goddamn phone. There was a thunderstorm predicted. I kept the phone on silent because, you know, I work in a library. But NWS don’t give a shit about your settings.

      I taught myself there and then how to turn off those alerts because I can’t have my phone turning into a klaxon every time there’s a thunderstorm. In New York in summer, that’s twice a day.

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