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OMG! My Phone Just Started Making A Loud Sound!

Annabellethecat66 — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 22:33:28 GMT

It's an emergency signal telling me Emergency Flooding in my area!

It's sitting in my lap and the noise is terrible! It has been raining here for more than a week!

Not just light rain! It's pouring down raining! The thunder is so loud.

Back in 2001 lightning hit my house (for the 3rd time) and we couldn't live it in for 5 full months.

I can hear it hitting a tree in the woods behind me. You hear a loud boom and a crack and then the tree falls!

Here we go again. The house next to me had a tree fall down in their front yard over the weekend. The entire tree just came up out of the ground....roots and everything! The tree is huge!

They just started cutting it up yesterday. It's going to take more than a week to even cut it up to a manageable state. The tree was beautiful. So full of beautiful green leaves. What a mess!

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chrystaltree — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 22:38:20 GMT

That happened to me last week! My phone made a weird shrill sound and I had no idea what was going on so I shut if off. Turned it on 30 minutes later and the same thing happened. Then my nephew came by and said it was flash flood warning and I should look at my texts. Sure enough, flash flood warning. I never had a phone do that before.

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jannabelle1 — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 22:39:40 GMT

I'm so sorry to hear what all of you are going through with so much continuous rain. I hope you get some relief soon....just know that others are thinking of you.

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NickNack — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 22:49:48 GMT

I hope it stops raining where you are soon @Annabellethecat66. My phone did that several times a few months ago. It was always an Amber Alert. I don't want Amber Alerts and figured out how to turn them off. It had never done it before. I wonder why they suddenly started sending them.

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blackhole99 — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 22:54:06 GMT

That happened with my phone too, such a bold notification, it scared me. It was late in the evening and I told my husband we had to evacuate and he started laughing. We live pretty high up on the hill and he said it would have to be a Noah type flood before we would need to leave our house. Not funny. IMO

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151949 — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 23:02:51 GMT

@Annabellethecat66 That loud screeching is to tell you about an emergency. Shouldn't you be paying attention & maybe be making plans to get out if necessary. Flash floods happen very quickly.

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Carmie — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 23:17:13 GMT

My phone has been doing that for the last two days. It scares the life out of me when everything is quiet and it is not expected.

@151949 Just because you get the alarm doesn't mean that you will have to evacuate or that your house is in the flood zone. The alarm will go off if there is an emergency somewhere in your county.

i live in a very high area that will never flood, but there are areas near me that do flood.

My DH noticed a sink hole starting in the street at the end of our driveway. There is a storm drain near there, but some water is going into the small sinkhole instead which is getting bigger and bigger. He reported it to the township today.

i also have some very large pine trees that are top heavy. I worry that the ground will become too saturated and they will topple over.

i just hope all this rain stops soon.

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Annabellethecat66 — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 23:31:25 GMT

I know what it is. I also live on top of a very high hill surrounded by many, many trees.

There are a lot of small creeks all around my area. Sometimes they overflow.

I also live near a huge ******. Today when my friend and I went over it the water was going so fast it was crazy!

Depending on how much water flows over it, they raise and lower it.

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January121 — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 01:43:37 GMT

Please stay safe .... flash floods are no joke🙂

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Blingqueen023 — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 12:08:57 GMT

@151949 wrote:
@Annabellethecat66 That loud screeching is to tell you about an emergency. Shouldn't you be paying attention & maybe be making plans to get out if necessary. Flash floods happen very quickly.

@151949 Just going to say the same thing. It can't be that much of an emergency if she has to post about a rain storm (yes I live in the area also), I just don't find it necessary to post an over abundance of drama about summer rains. If you have time to post about them, there is no emergency

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Krimpette — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 12:12:59 GMT

We got those phone alerts last evening when I was out for dinner. We've had so many weather warnings in recent days that I wasn't unduly alarmed. This one, however, was a flash flood warning. And I can see why. We ended up with 3 inches of rain in just an couple of hours. We're forecast to have a dry day today, but storms tomorrow evening. Next week looks very similar to what we've been going through this past week. Wish we could share some of our rains with those suffering droughts and fires.

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Mj12 — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 13:20:17 GMT

Imagine being on a crowded train when hundreds of those alerts go off.

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CelticCrafter — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 14:04:12 GMT

It happened here to us one night when all three cell phones went off at the same time.

It scared the living daylights out of us and sent the cat running for parts unknown.

We all disabled the weather alerts - if there is an extreme weather occurrence we get a reverse 911 call on the landline from our police department.

We also disabled the amber alerts, seemes as they only come through in the middle of the night.

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ID2 — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 15:16:06 GMT

When I get that loud warning shrill on my phone its always followed by an announcement telling me of the current warning in my area.

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proudlyfromNJ — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 19:29:41 GMT

@CelticCrafter wrote:
It happened here to us one night when all three cell phones went off at the same time.

It scared the living daylights out of us and sent the cat running for parts unknown.

We all disabled the weather alerts - if there is an extreme weather occurrence we get a reverse 911 call on the landline from our police department.

We also disabled the amber alerts, seemes as they only come through in the middle of the night.

@CelticCrafter. That's the first thing I did. Disabled all that stuff.

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hennypenny — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 04:46:08 GMT

Please don't disable these alerts.

You never know what the situation is.

We have had serious fires in our town and these alerts have saved lives.

they are terrifying to hear and I feel as though I am having a heart attack everytime they sound. We have been evacuated several times. When things are dangerous minutes even seconds count.

Last week we had an alert, a swat team was dealing with a mentally ill armed man not far from our house. People were told to shelter in place.

Don't always assume you know wht the danger is.

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Lilysmom — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 09:26:56 GMT

@Annabellethecat66, we lost two 50’ spruce trees in a Christmas Day storm. It took us days to clean it up. Losing a tree while it still has leaves will make the cleanup even worse.

Stay safe in the weather extremes! LM

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Annabellethecat66 — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 20:45:29 GMT

It's a case of crying wolfe too often. You'd have to live in hole to not know there is flooding around and to be extra careful!

It seldom happens (the loud noise) that's what shocked me.

The one that bothers me is when I get a noise on my phone and there's been a child abduction. Oh! Really! Well, that's all it says! No other information AT ALL.

So what good does it do me? It's not like I could look for a car (any car) a child (no description) .

Well, you get the idea. This has happened a few times. It makes no sense at all.

My favorite are the one's that come on the TV (usually late at night during a popular show) telling you they are checking the signals in case there is an alarm (something like that).

What are we supposed to do if there's something serious going on? No one anywhere has ever said anything about what to do and what the alarm might be.

I live in an area where we don't have tornados.

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Mj12 — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 20:52:49 GMT

@Annabellethecat66 wrote:
It's a case of crying wolfe too often. You'd have to live in hole to not know there is flooding around and to be extra careful!

It seldom happens (the loud noise) that's what shocked me.

The one that bothers me is when I get a noise on my phone and there's been a child abduction. Oh! Really! Well, that's all it says! No other information AT ALL.

So what good does it do me? It's not like I could look for a car (any car) a child (no description) .

Well, you get the idea. This has happened a few times. It makes no sense at all.

My favorite are the one's that come on the TV (usually late at night during a popular show) telling you they are checking the signals in case there is an alarm (something like that).

What are we supposed to do if there's something serious going on? No one anywhere has ever said anything about what to do and what the alarm might be.

I live in an area where we don't have tornados.

@Annabellethecat66 I believe you live in VA outside DC; a tornado touched down in Fairfax 2 days ago at Thomas Jefferson High School. Obviously not a major tornado, but still pretty rare for the area.

You would think everyone knows to be careful about flooding, but people still try to drive through what looks like a puddle in a bad storm - and it ends terribly. I don't see any harm in reminding people to pay attention.

I don't think I've ever had a missing child alert that did not contain car information and descriptions.

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Annabellethecat66 — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 20:58:36 GMT

Well, you know what! I'm just not worried because if I'm in front of my TV I will think about going downstairs to the bathroom that has no windows, that (since I live alone) I keep a radio in there that's wind up, with cat food, etc.

So you see, it's all good. If I'm out somewhere I'll figure out something.

I just don't worry about things. I live alone and even when I was married my husband traveled a lot. You would not believe the things I've totally taken care of on my own.

So, it's all good.