If I heard Gaga on my TV, I'd head for a shelter too.

Fingernails are to blackboard as Lady Gaga is to live stage performances.

My god, I didn't realize things had gotten that bad.

/'Cause this is a disaster

It didn't happen on the radio station playing at work.

All I heard was some lady yammering on and on about the Sierra Madre.

lostcat: "It's 2012 and our emergency alert system still sounds like a Speak and Spell and looks like an Atari 2600,"

Is it?

Yearlight Savings.

You people still watch TV? How quaint.

make me some tea: You people still watch TV? How quaint.

I torrented it so I can watch it later on my PS3.

Ed Finnerty: make me some tea: You people still watch TV? How quaint.

I torrented it so I can watch it later on my PS3.

srslah

Didn't work as intended where I work.

Videos of the botched test for Primary Entry Point radio stations are starting to pop up on Youtube.

My entire cable went out for a few moments. Then it came back on and one station in the Des Moines market carried the audio and video test card stating the EAN would run for a few minutes. On other stations I saw some scroll bars saying the test would last two hours. On some tv stations I saw/heard nothing. On some it was just an extended EAS test. Some serious work needs to be done on the EAN. I'm glad they've started testing it nationwide. I hope they continue to do this.

FTFA: Americans used to be able to easily tune in to the Emergency Broadcast System. Every radio dial had a small triangle marking where the public could tune in for a message from the government. Everyone knew about it. How quaint.





No. That was CONELRAD, the pre-ICBM precursor to the EBS. And the radios had two triangles--one for 640 Khz and one for 1240 Khz. And it was even more controversial than today when it started nationwide testing---especially for those who were anti-nuke activists. Get the history straight.

Yay, civil defense thread!

This a DAMN good reason to impeach Obama.

Charlie Freak: Yay, civil defense thread!

So, did ANYONE hear Lady Gaga when they ran the test?

That unfortunate black TV sounds like it got its speaker caught in a golf ball dimpler.

For God sakes, does no one here remember "Duck and Cover"?

We did it every third Wednesday of the month just before lunch, during the 1962 through 1966 school years. The emergency broadcast warning sounded, and you knew, way deep down in your heart, that the bastards were robbing you of recess time.

Then we went home and watched Johnny Quest and Speed Racer.

/CSB

I'm only 34.. But I mean, I remember a time where something like this would have been a non-event. Maybe, if it was a slow news day it might have a blurb in the "Around the town" section of the local newspaper in like, section D right behind a stuffing recipe.

So here we are in 2011 and this is being made into some big farking deal and getting MSM coverage who are injecting "controversy" and "conspiracy" into it.

I weep for our world.

Grables'Daughter: So, did ANYONE hear Lady Gaga when they ran the test?

I hear Lady Gaga in my dreams...

*whistful sigh*

Marcus Aurelius: For God sakes, does no one here remember "Duck and Cover"?

We did it every third Wednesday of the month just before lunch, during the 1962 through 1966 school years. The emergency broadcast warning sounded, and you knew, way deep down in your heart, that the bastards were robbing you of recess time.

Then we went home and watched Johnny Quest and Speed Racer.

/CSB

Um, excuse me, sir, but my ball went into your yard. Can I go onto your lawn to get it, please?

tetsoushima: Lorelle: Charlie Freak: Yay, civil defense thread!

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There is a CD fallout shelter in my old high school. They use it for storage now, but there were boxes of outdated rations down there back in 2000. The fact that they built shelters in case of a nuclear apocalypse inside of my school freaked me out a bit.

Do they store CDs there?

No Lady Gaga for me, but I could hear background noise, like an echo or another broadcast, in the background of the test.

Grables'Daughter: So, did ANYONE hear Lady Gaga when they ran the test?

nope...i hit mute and played angry birds