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You can now tell 3 minutes before the alarm that a missile has been launched from Yemen. The army activated a new app and it did work for me this morning at 6:30.
It was definitely different going to the shelter before the alarm and waiting. I was the first, second came the dog Bella, who never waits for her family members when the alarm sounds. The athletic mother arrived barefoot with the child, who also ran barefoot to the shelter at 6:30 in the morning.
We heard the echoes of the explosions, waited ten minutes, and returned to normal life, as if nothing had happened.
I hope there was not much damage? Glad you were safe x
ReplyDeleteNo harm here JajCee, we have excellent defense systems protecting us and in the meantime it's one missile a day. The problem is that it's not at regular times, you have to be alert all the time.
ReplyDeleteAny additional warning has to be helpful. I'm always thankful you are safe but it has to be difficult to live with that. Keeping you and your family in my thoughts.
ReplyDeleteThank you Bonnie for thinking of me. Sometimes I think that what we are going through here are experiences from other times, as if taken from the stories of our parents and grandmothers, but this is the reality here and we live with it.
ReplyDeleteThank goodness no harm came to you. Amazing app systems that give people warnings like that.
ReplyDeletestay safe.
Liam.
It's a feeling of a "small victory" when you know about it in advance and there is a way to defend yourself.
DeleteThe extra warning is essential. There might be young children still asleep... or grandma might take longer to get to the shelter than she used to. Hopefully this Freedom Holiday will keep you and yours safe.
ReplyDeleteYesterday was the first time this app was activated. Not everyone knew about it yet and it didn't work in all places, but it will improve.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read your posts for ages, as they appeared to have gone " private" and I couldn't get them after trying several times. I clicked on your comment to Cro just in hope and there you are.....I have now caught up a bit and pleased to find that you are OK, in spite of many night time excursions to the shelter! Sending good wishes to you and your family and hope that you will all be OK.
ReplyDeleteWelcome back Frances, I'm glad to see you here.
DeleteRunning for shelter has been an everyday event now. A warning app. Incredible. I like the way the dog knows too and is off and running. But crossing my fingers that you have peace and don't have to use the app or run in the middle of the night and you can live without that stress and fear.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter's dogs run to the safe room in their house when they hear the pre-alarm tones on the phone. The cats here are already indifferent, at first they would run under the house, now they continue to sleep.
ReplyDeleteI am sorry that this goes on and on.
ReplyDeleteYes, it's unpleasant, but you get used to everything. You live with it one way or another.
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting that even the dogs know what to do when the alarm sounds.
ReplyDeleteEven before the alarm, the dogs hear an alert sound on the iPhone and immediately run to the shelter, at my daughter's. Bella the dog's house doesn't have a shelter, so they run to the shelter. And she's the first to arrive.
ReplyDeleteOh lord
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