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Oct 04, 2023, 04:43 PM
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Desert Kitty hates titles
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Member Since: Jul 2008
Location: TARDIS
Posts: 12,543
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rechu
Once we got one of those for a tsunami alert - in Antarctica! Yes, our country claims a piece of Antarctica and there are some bases there, but it's thousands of km from the mainland. I don't even live near the coast. Most of the country got it and it freaked a lot of people!
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If it just increased in volume gradually instead of a sudden, loud, prolonged BEEEEEEEEPPPPPP, it would be more tolerable! I know they want people to pay attention and the volume can reach the hearing-impaired. But we ought to be able to control the volume.
I can turn off the sound but I don't want to do that. On the TV or radio I can mute it the few seconds it goes on.
Nammu I'm perplexed some people can laugh it off, it's alarming to me.  It's a TEST and during a real emergency that's when it's time to stop and listen. At that point, life will not go on as usual---the kind of disruptions we could have make my skin crawl. Even extreme weather is something, more common now than before.
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