Several Kentucky Cell Phone Users Sent Erroneous Emergency Alert

I hope that never happens to me. Can you imagine receiving an emergency alert from the federal government on your phone? Can you imagine a certain amount of time (probably too long for comfort) passing before you got to the bottom of its nature?

Well that's the predicament several Kentuckians found themselves in recently when text alerts were sent to their phones that read "prepare for action."

That would scare me to death.

I've long believed that since 99.999999% of us likely now use cell phones that if a real national emergency occurred--I mean the kind that would necessitate all of us being notified at once--that all phones would sound off simultaneously. Can you imagine how that would sound?

Yes, we're imagining again.

Anyway, this little snafu occurred over in eastern Kentucky.

It IS a message that the feds will use in the event of immediate safety threats, but it is issued by mistake by the Emergency Operations Center in Frankfort via the Federal Communication Commission’s Wireless Emergency Alert system.

So, thankfully, everything is okay.

But, HOPEfully, they'll get this fixed. Panic rarely improves a given situation, especially when there is nothing to panic about.