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       Second thoughts about signing up for emergency alerts
       By: agate Date: August 22, 2023, 1:20 am
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       The area I live in offers a way to sign up for emergency alerts
       in case of a need to evacuate (extreme weather, for instance).
       It sounded like a good idea, and a few years ago I signed up for
       this, giving my landline phone number, which is the phone I use
       most of the time.
       Now I'm trying to cancel that registration but finding it next
       to impossible. I'm still working on it.
       Last night at 2 AM and again at about 5 AM the phone ringing
       woke me up. A recording announced that there was police activity
       in my area and residents should "shelter in place." Something
       was said about shooting. The second time I was told to resume my
       normal activity as the danger was over.
       Yes, there was a news story about it that I later found on line.
       The police had been pursuing a couple of armed men and there was
       shooting.
       But this kind of thing happens. I don't want to know about it by
       being wakened twice. How likely was I to be out and about at
       those times? So I wasn't in any danger.
       The "area" mentioned was an area of several blocks. It wasn't
       right outside my windows. The exact location of the activity was
       several blocks away.
       One city can be quite different from another, it seems. Here in
       this smaller city they see a point in this kind of alert system.
       Being from a much larger city, I don't. Or maybe I just place
       too high a value on being able to sleep.
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