Canada's Alert Ready system being activated for the first time ever tomorrow at 1:58 PM CDT for a te - Polidicks

[url]http://globalnews.ca/news/1980552/new-alert-ready-emergency-warning-system-to-be-tested-wednesday/[/url] [quote=Global]It’s a sight and sound Manitobans should pay attention to. Alert Ready is an emergency alert system that will cut into radio and television programming to tell people about an immediate threat to safety. “This will make a real difference,” said Manitoba Emergency Measures Minister Steve Ashton. A test of the system will happen Wednesday at 1:58 p.m.[/quote]

how did canada not have one of these before

[QUOTE=/dev/sda1;47666694]how did canada not have one of these before[/QUOTE] And here is your answer "Canada"

[QUOTE=/dev/sda1;47666694]how did canada not have one of these before[/QUOTE] Your guess is as good as anyone else's. However, there is one exception, and that's Alberta. After the Edmonton F4, they smartened up and realized "holy shit, this tornado tore through a good part of our capital, we need a way to quickly warn people all at once", and they made what is now [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Emergency_Alert]the Alberta Emergency Alert system[/url] not long after. It only took until something was being made nationally (Alert Ready) for Manitoba to get their stuff together after Canada's only official F5 tornado to date was banging on the doorstep of Winnipeg not far away from it in Elie in 2007.

The other day while I was driving my car I heard sounds really similar to the usa emergency alert system, it cut out what I was listening and lasted for a good 10-15 seconds, I was really freaked out. I still don't know what it was

[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;47666725]Your guess is as good as anyone else's. However, there is one exception, and that's Alberta. After the Edmonton F4, they smartened up and realized "holy shit, this tornado tore through a good part of our capital, we need a way to quickly warn people all at once", and they made what is now [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Emergency_Alert]the Alberta Emergency Alert system[/url] not long after. It only took until something was being made nationally (Alert Ready) for Manitoba to get their stuff together after Canada's only official F5 tornado to date was banging on the doorstep of Winnipeg not far away from it in Elie in 2007.[/QUOTE] Lack of natural and man made disasters would cause a government to not care about it. Cause and effect right there.

It is weird it hasn't happened before

The USA one always freaks me out because it's so robotic. Especially when you're driving through a huge storm at night and its not a drill. Bone chilling.

[QUOTE=OvB;47666994]The USA one always freaks me out because it's so robotic. Especially when you're driving through a huge storm at night and its not a drill. Bone chilling.[/QUOTE] At least we'll see whether or not the test is spoken by a human like the NWS does for their weeklies and monthlies or is just TTS. We already have a TTS engine in use for our not-as-known weather radio system here that TTSes both the English and French versions of alerts, so it wouldn't be a surprise if Pelmorex (the company that developed it and owns our TWC analogue, The Weather Network) just reused that.

in ontario we had something like this today

[QUOTE=OvB;47666994]The USA one always freaks me out because it's so robotic. Especially when you're driving through a huge storm at night and its not a drill. Bone chilling.[/QUOTE] Yeah. I always feel like I did when I was little and I saw a scary commercial on TV. Just sort of makes my heart sink immediately.

[QUOTE=ThePinkPanzer;47667526]Yeah. I always feel like I did when I was little and I saw a scary commercial on TV. Just sort of makes my heart sink immediately.[/QUOTE]especially since it turns your volume way up AND it's usually real dark in the house at the time (for me at least) so you can just be sitting around and hearing some weird robot voice from the other room

[QUOTE=/dev/sda1;47666694]how did canada not have one of these before[/QUOTE] Moose are fucking loud we just get them to do it

[QUOTE=/dev/sda1;47666694]how did canada not have one of these before[/QUOTE] I want to say its either because nothing ever happens in Canada or nobody would bother nuking Canada (which is why these systems even exist)