October 4th Emergency Alert Testing

[Stanistan]

 

Hi Nancy,
Wi-Fi (data) phone connections are different than a cell signal.
There were those that didn't get the alert because of some of their settings also.
And some phones were simply shut off...lol.

When Kent and I were growing up, we helped run the phone company in a small South Central Nebraska village,
which our Grandfather started in 1905.  We had a crank magneto plant until I was 10, 1958,
when we converted to rotary dial.  I used to sit on the operator's lap and plug in when
the calls came in, saying 'Number Please'. I would then plug into that number and toggle
the rings, maybe a long and 2 shorts, as some of the Platte River lines had 8 phones on
one twisted pair.
There was a switch on the stamped metal ceiling with a long string hanging down.
I got to sit on the operators lap, reach up and pull the switch, which triggered the
siren in the park across the street.  That went off at 7am, noon and 6pm everyday setting the
rhythm for 560 folks.  And it was used for fires and tornado's. 
The operator was Gossip Central of course....lol.

Great fun and quite different than our modern alerts.

Stanley Weeks