There'll be an Emergency Alert System test on that date, but predictions that a catastrophe is coming are likely false, experts said.
On Tuesday, Nov. 17, at around 2:20 p.m. ET, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Federal Communications Commission are planning a test of the Emergency Alert System. That’s when all hell is supposed to break loose. At least, that’s what you might believe if you only rely on social media.
Coming just days after an abrupt and disruptive government-ordered shutdown of air travel in the US and technical issues that caused an unwelcome outage of widely used Microsoft workplace software, the test will be…
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