Don't know how long these links will last...
Scary stuff in this day and age...
At:
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/ilm/ you'll see a S.C. county shaded in pink, with the matching legend "Civil Emergency Message".
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With this message:
(link) "
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=SCZ045&warncounty=SCC015&local_place1=Pinopolis&product1=Civil+Emergency+Message "
Interesting that they used a reverse 911...
2 products found:
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Civil Emergency Message
SCC015-231315-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TEST...CIVIL EMERGENCY MESSAGE...TEST
SANTEE COOPER
RELAYED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
834 AM EDT WED AUG 23 2006
...THIS MESSAGE IS FOR TEST PURPOSES ONLY...
THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE IS BEING COMMUNICATED AT THE REQUEST OF SANTEE
COOPER.
TEST...TEST...TEST...THIS IS A TEST OF SANTEE COOPER/S EMERGENCY
ACTION PLAN FOR DAM FAILURE. THIS MESSAGE IS PART OF AN EMERGENCY
WARNING EXERCISE NOW BEING CONDUCTED BY SANTEE COOPER...SOUTH
CAROLINA/S STATE-OWNED ELECTRIC AND WATER UTILITY...TEST...
TEST...TEST.
THE TEST IS BEING CONDUCTED AT THE SANTEE RIVER BETWEEN THE DAM AND
THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. THIS MESSAGE PERTAINS TO CHARLESTON...
BERKELEY...CLARENDON...WILLIAMSBURG AND GEORGETOWN COUNTIES.
RESIDENTS IN THESE COUNTIES MAY HAVE ALSO HEARD TESTS OF THE SIREN
WARNING AND RECEIVED A TEST CALL FROM A REVERSE 911 SYSTEM. IF THIS
WERE A REAL EMERGENCY...YOU SHOULD STAY TUNED TO THIS TONE ALERT
RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
IN CHARLESTON.
YOU WOULD ALSO BE INSTRUCTED TO TUNE TO YOUR LOCAL BROADCASTERS FOR
DETAILED INFORMATION AND INSTRUCTIONS ABOUT ANY ACTION YOU MAY NEED
TO TAKE. NO PRECAUTIONS NEED TO BE TAKEN AT THIS TIME. THIS IS ONLY
A TEST.
THIS EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION BULLETIN WAS ISSUED THROUGH THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE BY THE SANTEE COOPER CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS
DEPARTMENT. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...CALL LAURA VARN AT
843-761-4133.
THIS CONCLUDES THE TEST MESSAGE.
TEST...TEST...TEST...TEST...I REPEAT...THIS IS A TEST MESSAGE. DO
NOT TAKE ACTION BASED ON THIS MESSAGE.
$$