People with phones set up for emergency messages were warned this afternoon to leave the Esplanade as a line of thunderstorms approached south of Boston. State Police stopped letting people onto the Esplanade to reduce the number of people they might have to move out in a hurry had the heavy rain and lightning reached the Charles, which it didn't.
FC was sitting at home in Somerville when the phone blared:
I'm sitting on my couch at home.
Others, also nowhere near the Hatch Shell, got more specific messages that referred to the Pops.
Mem_Somerville reports:
My housemate got it, but I didn't. We are in the same location, but technically he's upstairs, so maybe he's closer to lightning....
But also not at the Esplanade.
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By Vicki
Tue, 07/04/2023 - 7:41pm
We got the message about the Pops here in Brighton (near the BC end of green line B), and I thought that maybe it was going to every phone in Boston.
MEMA alert for greater Boston
By MassMouse
Tue, 07/04/2023 - 7:42pm
I think everyone was just being extra cautious based on whatever happened several years ago that made people take cover in the sterile, drive tunnels.
Voice recognition?
By mg
Tue, 07/04/2023 - 8:24pm
@MassMouse - am I correct in guessing you mean "Storrow Drive" and voice recognition didn't recognize?
HA!
By MrZip
Tue, 07/04/2023 - 9:36pm
Cynical me thought MM was being snarky about how dirty the Storrow tunnels are, which I enjoyed. But the voice recog explanation is also good. UHUB never disappoints.
Speech recognition
By anon
Wed, 07/05/2023 - 8:57am
Your dog mostly does voice recognition, your spouse mostly speech recognition.
Nah man...
By MrZip
Wed, 07/05/2023 - 10:46am
...she ignores me completely.
BAA HAA HA
By MassMouse
Wed, 07/05/2023 - 4:37pm
I did mean Storrow Drive - that was precious!!
South Boston
By MikeBoston
Tue, 07/04/2023 - 7:52pm
Andrew Square included in the evacuation information. Took shelter in Dunks.
I got three of them
By StillFromDorchester
Tue, 07/04/2023 - 8:50pm
In my house painting my toenails, scared the crap out of me .
I read the header, evacuate BOSTON.. :0
The British were back to
By Matt Frank
Wed, 07/05/2023 - 7:00am
The British were back to finish the job...
Which one - losing or
By Rob
Wed, 07/05/2023 - 10:06am
Which one - losing or surrendering?
Emergency Confusion
By Mr. Confusion
Tue, 07/04/2023 - 9:18pm
I'm miles away from the concert, sitting in my living room… and I got the alert on each my phones (iPhone and Android), and the Android phone started making a loud alarm sound. I didn't even remember I had signed up for that, didn't understand the message (especially because POPS was all caps and I had no idea what MSP stood for). So I thought maybe a tornado, or huge fire, or World War III.
So I called 911 to ask, and she probably thought I was an idiot, but she was very nice about it and quickly explained what it was. Whew!
I knew what POPS was, despite the weird capitalization, but
By Tim Mc.
Tue, 07/04/2023 - 10:47pm
I had no idea what a PI was, and whether I might be one. Private Individual? Person of Interest?
Someone on fedi explained to me that it was "Pls", not "PIs" -- as in "please". -.-
MSP?
By Ron Newman
Wed, 07/05/2023 - 12:44am
I had no idea what that was and wondered why I would be getting an alert for the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport.
Was at a holiday bbq…
By Ward8Mahatma
Wed, 07/05/2023 - 12:51am
…in Revere and about 12 phones including mine went off at once with the alert
World class.
By Rwgfy
Wed, 07/05/2023 - 4:11am
World class.
It could have been worse...
By brianjdamico
Wed, 07/05/2023 - 8:22am
It could have been something like
Magoo sez
By MisterMagooForYoo
Wed, 07/05/2023 - 9:05am
Magoo was so startled by the alert that Magoo said “Yeeeeeowozerswhatsthat?!?!” really really loud. Magoo.
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