Does your city have air raid sirens?

[jagec]

I think air raid sirens sound cool.

 

[PanzerIV]

Originally posted by: jagec
I think air raid sirens sound cool.

Me too unless you are, in fact, getting bombed from the air.

 

[DaveNinja]

Sacramento has them. They test them at 10am the last friday of every month. Ive never heard them used other than then

 

[Heisenberg]

We have tornado sirens, yes.

 

[Squisher]

They're more speakers than sirens.

 

[Landroval]

We have tsunami sirens, tested every month, and very loud.

 

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: yukichigai
It's the damnedest thing; the city doesn't have a single air raid siren in it, but every so often I hear literally dozens of them all at once. What's weirder is that as soon as that starts the sun goes dark, all the buildings get coated with some weird rust/dried blood looking mixture inside and out, and all the dogs in the area seem to lose their skin for a bit. Tres bizzare, ne?

Whoa, just had Silent Hill 1 & 2 flashbacks. *shivers*

Edit: And yeah, our town has one large yellow siren on top of a 150ft pole. They test it once a month at noon, it rotates at about one rotation every 10 seconds, and lasts for about a minute and a half. The control box is about 10 feet up the pole. I became very familiar with it because where I used to work is located across the road from the fire department (where the siren is) and whenever it would be in testing it would blast through the streets, through open doors, and rattle everything including your brain. One time I actually went outside while it was in testing, and walked to the back parking lot, so I'm standing like 100 yards away from it and whenever it would swing around and point at me, it would feel like the siren was right next to my head, which might split open at any second. Very impressively loud. And a cool thing was, when it was in the process of winding down, the sound it produced would become very low and bassy and shake everything within a 500 yard radius.

I wonder how difficult it would be to sneak over there at 3AM and start it manually... :evil:

 

[Bassyhead]

There are ones around the nuclear power plant in a 10 mile radius

 

[weirdichi]

Originally posted by: mobobuff

Originally posted by: yukichigai
It's the damnedest thing; the city doesn't have a single air raid siren in it, but every so often I hear literally dozens of them all at once. What's weirder is that as soon as that starts the sun goes dark, all the buildings get coated with some weird rust/dried blood looking mixture inside and out, and all the dogs in the area seem to lose their skin for a bit. Tres bizzare, ne?

Whoa, just had Silent Hill 1 & 2 flashbacks. *shivers*

Edit: And yeah, our town has one large yellow siren on top of a 150ft pole. They test it once a month at noon, it rotates at about one rotation every 10 seconds, and lasts for about a minute and a half. The control box is about 10 feet up the pole. I became very familiar with it because where I used to work is located across the road from the fire department (where the siren is) and whenever it would be in testing it would blast through the streets, through open doors, and rattle everything including your brain. One time I actually went outside while it was in testing, and walked to the back parking lot, so I'm standing like 100 yards away from it and whenever it would swing around and point at me, it would feel like the siren was right next to my head, which might split open at any second. Very impressively loud. And a cool thing was, when it was in the process of winding down, the sound it produced would become very low and bassy and shake everything within a 500 yard radius.

I wonder how difficult it would be to sneak over there at 3AM and start it manually... :evil:

That's the first thing that came to my mind. *shiver x2*

 

[chcarnage]

The general alert in my city is tested once a year. Some neighbouring regions have radiation or water alert sirens, too.

 

[thegimp03]

None around here. City is too big anyways. I've seen them in a lot of small cities before though.

 

[spaceman]

LIVE TO FLYYYYY!!!! FLYYY TO LIVVEEE!!! DOOO OOORRR DIIEEEEE!!!

 

[surreal1221]

negative for the outside town, but obviously the base here has them.

 

[cavemanmoron]

see them ontop of bldgs here

Albany NY area