DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Cell phones blared to life at 4:45 a.m. ET Thursday with an emergency alert, rousing many Floridians from sleep.

But there was no actual emergency. The helpful message stated the system was just being checked out.

“This is a TEST of the Emergency Alert System. No action is required.”

Well, many people in the Twitter-verse thought some action might be required: like the firing of whoever decided to test the emergency alert system at 4:45 a.m.

Some said it was rude. And some used much stronger language. Many were wondering why run a test at 4:45 a.m.? What Florida man would do such a thing and why?

The test was a scheduled alert from the Florida Association of Broadcasters, which alternates alerts between 1:50 p.m. and 4:50 a.m. each month.

Besides a lot of grousing, the alert produced lots of memes on Twitter, some showed alarmed people being awoken from their slumber while others depicted angry people.

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This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Florida emergency alert system angers residents with early test