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[GDGF]

That sucked. Never seen anything like that before. It's storming outside, and all of a sudden, every channel I have suddenly becomes The Weather Channel (and there is a red strip along the bottom warning me of a Severe Thunderstorm Warning)

I was watching Spongebob, too

 

[Ecrofirt]

The Matrix has you.

 

[Diablos]

Every channel? Man, if there was a tornado or earthquake coming, I'd understand... but that's really stupid.

 

[GDGF]

Every freaking channel. It's strange. Like some kinda crap you'd see in one of those Cold War era nuclear war movies.

 

[LinesInTheSand]

Do you have Comcast? I know they do that.

 

[GDGF]

It's Mediacom, but maybe they're owned by comcast or something. This is pissing me off though.

 

[Ecrofirt]

I used to manually do soemthing similiar when I was like 4.

Our TV let you program which channel a channel was. For instance, I could make channel 7 actually show channel 15.

My parents came home from work on more than one occasion to find Nikelodeon on every channel.

 

[Hitokage]

They aren't doing it because they thought you might be curious.

 

[Incognito]

I've noticed this phenom lately, too. During the Reagan funeral, it was storming very heavily for 3 or so days straight, and on Faux-News(a channel you pay extra for), there'd be this irritatingly loud "THIS IS A WARNING FROM THE NWS" along with the obnoxious red bar stating what counties were under a warning. Mind you, when this was happening, there was no SOUND at all from the normal broadcast, just the "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE".

I switched to ABC at that point. Fuck that bullshit...

 

[GDGF]

Now that I'm on the subject of freaky WW3 type stuff, there is this loudspeaker 'voice of god' type thing in my neighborhood that just appeared out of nowhere a few months back.
It's so freaking loud that it sounds like it's coming from my back yard, but I haven't been able to find the source of it yet.

Anyway...local government uses it to do those 'test of the emergency broadcast system' things you see on TV from time to time, except imagine it coming from all around you in a super crazy volume. It really is kind of sobering.



And...hey TV is back. Good.

 

[Incognito]

Now that I'm on the subject of freaky WW3 type stuff, there is this loudspeaker 'voice of god' type thing in my neighborhood that just appeared out of nowhere a few months back.
It's so freaking loud that it sounds like it's coming from my back yard, but I haven't been able to find the source of it yet.

Anyway...local government uses it to do those 'test of the emergency broadcast system' things you see on TV from time to time, except imagine it coming from all around you in a super crazy volume. It really is kind of sobering.



And...hey TV is back. Good.

Yeah, those "air-raid" sirens are the fucking spawn of the devil. More and more cities are putting them in place for weather warnings and the such. Everytime it rains here, those fucking things go off, and it's unimaginably loud. Also, they're on military bases around the world, and if you haven't been to one after 9-11 and suddenly hear them go off at 12noon, you'll be scared shitless for obvious reasons. Have no worries, though, they're just working out the kinks for the inevitable doom.

 

[MIMIC]

They do something similar to that with Adelphia Digital Cable.

The day of my prom (a few hours before), it stormed like a bitch. The television screens all turned blue for a few minutes with the warnings on the screen in big bold white letters...before the power went out, of course.

I guess they do that with the really, REALLY bad storms because we're in a Severe Thunderstorm Warning all the freakin time. But THAT time, it hailed so bad that it looked like a winter wonderland after it was all said and done, trees had fallen over and the streets were all flooded.

And on another note, why wasn't the emergency broadcast system activated on 9/11? One would think that a major terrorist attack, amid all the confusion and chaos that day, would merit the "test" to go into a working operation.

 

[Mason]

I used to manually do soemthing similiar when I was like 4.

Our TV let you program which channel a channel was. For instance, I could make channel 7 actually show channel 15.

My parents came home from work on more than one occasion to find Nikelodeon on every channel.

LOL, I found that really funny for some reason.

 

[sc0la]

Today is the day after tomorrow!

 

[mightynine]

My cable system does something similar. Whenever there is a severe thunderstorm warning, every channel gets the same screen and message "THE EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM HAS BEEN ACTIVATED PLEASE TURN TO CHANNEL 13 FOR MORE INSTRUCTIONS"

Very weird when you fall asleep in front of the TV and that happens at, oh, say 3 am.

I'm guessing your system doesn't have its own automated system like mine, so they just use the Weather Channel.