Jim Beaux wrote:What you guys have experienced is the Emergency Notification System (ENS). Its purpose is to inform of life threatening events...of course, being a government program it has been expanded to include missing persons, Amber Alerts, potential disasters and dangerous weather. Being in SE Texas with rain every day for the past 10 days I recd 3 within 4 hours warning me of Flash Flooding. (duh)
Having a Blackberry I can disable ENS on the handset (all alerts but presidential). If you cant disable on your handset you can go to your cell provider's web site and disable. (Verizon)
I got a couple of these calls from the city before the last tropical storm.