yup. the #FEMA alert just went off... THING2's phone who is on the other end of the apartment.

FWIW it was scheduled to happen at 2:20EST it's 02:19PM as i type this.

#NationalAlert #USA

WTAF MY PHONE WENT OFF WITH THAT STUPID #NationalAlert!!!!!

it's 2:46pm as i type this. as i noted before, the system went off here in NYC at 2:19PM EST.

as the phone completely boots up, it goes off.

not only that: whomever coordinated this with #TMobile assumed i do not speak English. i do not have my phone localized to Spanish.

this is not good.

it not only puts some people's lives in danger; but it was coordinated by bigots.

@blogdiva I got two alerts almost at the same time, first one in Spanish, second in English.

@jf_718 it seems that there was a window of time these alerts were going out. i had no idea that's how they set it up.

fwiw: is your last name latinoamerican or are you on TMobile?

if TMobile set up the alert in Spanish first, now am curious if it was coordinated from Puerto Rico or MΓ©xico.

@blogdiva fwiw, I received the text in both English and Spanish
@blogdiva
I got 2 separate alerts and your times seem similar to what I experienced. I too got a Spanish version but I use Google Fi which uses the T-Mobile towers but otherwise different service.