Testing, testing.
At 1:55 p.m. on Nov. 28, the province was scheduled to sound off as Emergency Preparedness BC tested its public alert system for the second time.
The first public alert earlier this year did not reach all British Columbians. In the Victoria B次元官网网址 office, six of the eight cell phones owned by the news team received the alert on Nov. 28. The TVs did not.
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Did your alert work? Tv didnB次元官网网址檛 change here. But u can hear the phones going .
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In the nearly 200 comments on , there were mixed responses. Many got the alert on multiple devices B次元官网网址� it could have come through TV, radio or cell phones on an LTE network B次元官网网址� as well as the Weather Network app and their tablets.
Some said they only received the alert on TV, even though it had gone off on their cell phone during the previous demo in May.
Others who didnB次元官网网址檛 know the alert was taking place on Nov. 28 were caught off guard.
B次元官网网址淵up scared me as I was just holding my phone and then put it down and boom started going off and vibrating like crazy,B次元官网网址� MaryLou Vinet commented.
Reader Linda Clark wrote that she was driving past the construction on McKenzie when it sounded off. B次元官网网址淕lad my daughter was in the car to tell me what the hell it was.B次元官网网址�
Margaret Lever was also driving when her iPhone received the alert, even though sheB次元官网网址檇 set the device not to receive notifications.
Timothy McCullagh said he got the alert twice, an hour apart.
B次元官网网址淵es, most of the bus I was on had them go off,B次元官网网址� Terri Turbide commented.
As of 8 a.m. the morning after the alert, 82 per cent of people responding to our said in a poll that they received the test. Eighteen per cent of the 44 people who voted said they did not. Tell us if you received the alert by taking our poll below.
Six out of eight phones in our newsroom recieved the alert. Did you get the test?
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