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I'm Clyde Lewis, and this is Ground Zero.

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We got a lot of talk about tonight, so I'm going to get right to it.

A week or so ago, if I remember, even just a few days ago, I told you to mark your calendars for October 4th

because it was going to be a massive nationwide emergency test.

It'll be conducted, and it'll be going on, and you'll all be electronics, whether it be your computer or your phone or whatever.

It'll all be for this EAS emergency activation system.

If you're not ready for it, it's going to make you jump.

I'm never ready for these things, even though I know they're coming.

It's very loud when your phone does it to you, when you have the tone come over your phone.

But I figured that this would be a great opportunity to talk about what emergency activations really mean, and what they do.

I'm not saying that when this activation goes on on October 4th, we're all going to be in a panic, and that you should prepare for the worst.

You should always be prepared.

I always tell you to go to preparewithgroundzero.com, and I say go there, get the food, get everything, and you really should.

With all the things that have been happening recently, and all these unexpected things going down, the idea that hurricanes and whatever.

We know we live in a violent planet, and you don't want to be going without because you just didn't plan.

They're telling us warnings about shopping centers and stores, and how they only have three days where the food and your nine meals away from starvation, and this is the government talking to you.

This is them warning you.

But the emergency activation system, as a radio talk show host, before I did network radio, I had the responsibility of conducting these emergency activation tests.

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