It looks like we’ll have a new system of alerting us in case of disasters or terrorist attacks:

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said Monday that the Commercial Mobile Alert System will direct emergency messages to cell phones in case of a terrorist attack, natural disaster or other serious emergencies.

The alert plan was approved by Congress in 2006 under the Warning Alert and Response Network Act.

You just better hope that the tornado they are trying to alert you about didn’t just knock your cell tower.