My phone was actually dead at 3pm so when I plugged it in and it came to life I got that siren 

TheCatWoman said:

I wouldn't want to survive a nuclear war, but a conventional one

Britains island status makes it too difficult to effectively invade by troops, and its existance on the edge of Euope makes it a much more appealing target (in miitary terms) for nucear attack.

You can see how effective Ukraine has been in halting a massive military machine like Russia and that is with a flat, wide land border. Getting large numbers of troops onto our soil just isn't worth the gains.

We have little natural resource or strategic location to make it worthwhile.We don't produce enough foodstuffs to take and our cuisine is certainly not worth the high cost of occupation.

Militarilly it makes way more sense to take us out the equation militarily (ie nuke our military and main population centers) and leave us be.

This all means there is little point preparing for such a low likelhood event as a conventional war. In my opinion of course.

Oh, no! - that sounds truly unpleasant last time.

Yes, very irritating. I had to take my hearing aids out and switch them off just before 3pm (they're set to stream from my phone – last time there was a test I forgot and it (almost) literally blew my mind!).

I wouldn't want to survive a nuclear war, but a conventional one, this island probably would be a target with it's two RAF bases, deep water port, but thankfully no longer a nuclear power station.

I think we've all been taught to fear nuclear war, but as Ukraine has shown conventional weapons are still the first used, just new delievery systems.

We're probably more likely to be affected by flooding as we're fairly low lying in most places and it would depend on which direction a flood came from. We also have earth quakes, not big ones thankfully, but still scary, I do wonder what would happen if a big wave occured due to one.

I didn't read the details but have been worried about it for a while. From what I understood, most were dismantled or repurposed.

Where are the UK nuclear bunkers? (civildefence.co.uk)

As for general shelters in case of bombing there should be a map, but I didn't search.

If you find it, I'd welcome it.

There are some companies selling (nuclear?) bunkers from what I can spot, quite funny.

TheCatWoman said:

One of the things I was thinking, was where are shelters in the UK,

Real estate is way too expensive for the government to consider turning it over to a non-profitable thing such as a shelter.

It is going to be up to you if you want to have your own shelter, and you will have to fund it yourself.

A big thing to consider is, if there was a nuclear war, would you want to live through it? What would life be like? Where could you get food / water / medicines from when the whole infrastructure has collapsed?

How would you survive in a heavily contaminated environment and protect yourself from groups of people trying to survive by taking from those who still have something?

If there was a war and the government survived in their official shelters, safe below the surface and equipped for years worth of supplies, do you really think they would be using what meagre resources were left in their control to serve the population or to ensure their own survival?

I think they would be just as self serving post-war as they are now.

I had to bite my young’s when people talked about it and how ih we are going to warnsoons it’s like no whist it can be used for that it’s becuase of rhe increasing amount of floods and stuff we seem to be getting 

in a weird way we are safer from war thanks to the Cold War and tbh I think any war on a global scale would be a Cold War again becuase even putin isnt crazy enough to impliment m.a.d

Mine was off bit was at an acoustic music event and heard others do it 

I’d forgotten all about it but I certainly won’t forget that awful hellish noise my phone made 

My phone is new, only a few months old, but isn't a smart phone, I didn't get the previous one they did, maybe because my old phone didn't do 4G and the new one does.

I only remembered because I set a reminder when this first appears two months ago. I think I would have had the same reaction if I was out walking. 

When I saw your comment I was reminded that you wondered if you would get it as your phone was older. Good news that you got it.

I'd forgotten all about it and was trying to make a call when it cut in, then I couldn't get rid of it and had to turn my phone off and on again as it wouldn't let me make any oher call or text, I thought it had totally knackered my phone for a bit, it took about 20 mins before I was able to make another call or text and when I did turn my phone back on it did it again.

One of the things I was thinking, was where are shelters in the UK, I know there are a few remaining WW2 Anderson shelters that have been repurposed into garden sheds, but unless you live in London or somewhere else with an underground network where are we supposed to shelter?

I was out walking at the time, when it went off I nearly died from fright lol. Typical of my brain not to remember it was going to happen.

Well I was fully aware, still completely forgot and was rudely awakened from my nap. Stupid ADHD.

I switched my alert off forgot I did that. I was napping and woke up 10 minutes after the alert thinking my phone had died or something. 

I was aware but I am still over stimulated after it rang. 

Well that was handy. Having sat there waiting to see if it made me jump. My husband's went off about a minute before mine. Did it know I might jump? Probably not and more likely because my phone is older.

Setting a phone to silent / do not disturb will not stop this emergency alarm.

You need to turn off emergency alerts in settings, or turn off the power (shut it down)