This topic has been touched on in other threads but something happened last night that has me concerned. While (trying to) watch a program on the History Channel yesterday at 11:11PM the EAS warning sounded. I was a little irritated at first thinking it was just another test, the same one they seem to perform every few days. And the first time it said something like "this is a test of the Emergency alert system" but....on the screen the graphics showed an amber alert/child abduction alert. So I changed to channel 7 and the graphic there said it was just a test. I then proceeded to (try) watch my program when the alert came on 10 minutes later. This time it said "There is an emergency in your area please tune to channel 7 or one of your local channels for information". Again thinking this was serious I changed to 7 then 4 then 5 then 9 and nothing except the graphic and warning on channel 7.
I remember during one of the interruptions the graphic said "There is a child abduction alert from 11:11pm til 1:11am..... HUH????? Does anyone know if something was actually happening? Was a child abducted? If so why was the alert for only 2 hours....are they pshchic?
They had several different messages ie "this is a test", then "An emergency has been declared for your area" Which is it? Cox needs to understand that its causing confusion and people will stop paying attention to their annoying alert tone. What happens when there really is an emergency? I finally gave up and tivo'd the show I was watching and will watch it tonight.
The interruptions aren't what concerns me, they annoy me but I can live with that. Sending out either false or confusing information during an emergnecy or test does. Anyone else see this last night? Or anyone work at Cox care to comment?
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