nuke sirens

[jmaster]

No matter how many times I hear them the nuclear sirens they have here catch me off guard when they test them. I guess thats part of living near a nuke power plant though and there kinda trippy when high so there not all bad I guess they just tend to wake me up sometimes. Anyone else live near a place with these sirens or similar?

jmaster Reviewed by jmaster on 03-08-2007. nuke sirens No matter how many times I hear them the nuclear sirens they have here catch me off guard when they test them. I guess thats part of living near a nuke power plant though and there kinda trippy when high so there not all bad I guess they just tend to wake me up sometimes. Anyone else live near a place with these sirens or similar? Rating: 5

[Skink]

No matter how many times I hear them the nuclear sirens they have here catch me off guard when they test them. I guess thats part of living near a nuke power plant though and there kinda trippy when high so there not all bad I guess they just tend to wake me up sometimes. Anyone else live near a place with these sirens or similar?

I look forward to a day when Nuclear power is not looked at as the only thing we can do for energy needs... Why should we have warning sirens to prvide a service??? that just sounds counter productive...

[Jderringer]

Yup... first Saturday of month at 1pm... Loud as hell by my house, but thats cause the siren tower is less than a half mile away...

[jmaster]

They do it on Thursdays here anywhere from 10am-12pm for about 20 minutes. They have to test them in case of emergency by law I guess? They have boxes every couple miles and they can be quite loud.

[MinusRyan]

MAN nukeclear sirens? that's gotta be so trippy, and scary as hell when high :wtf:

I got some advice.


MOVE AWAY MOVE AWAY !

[birdgirl73]

Ours are tested on the first Wednesday of every month at noon in clear weather. But here they're not just nuke sirens, they're warning sirens that are used pretty frequently in the springtime because I live in the Dallas area, which is part of Tornado Alley. That's why they only test them when it's not cloudy or overcast. We have so many storms in the springtime here that when I hear the siren-testing, I immediately think of tornados instead of nuclear danger.

[Skink]

Tonado Alley??? F that,,,you aint getting me to live there!!!

[birdgirl73]

You really do get used to it. It happens every spring, and there are usually at least one or two serious warnings. It's kind of exciting, really. It's one of the times of year I most miss working for the fire department.

[Delta9 UK]

The first time I was in the States I almost shit my pants when they went off. The guys I was with thought that it would be really "funny" to go ape-shit like it was a real 3-minute warning

Plus later that night I saw the emergency broadcast channel (I think that's what you call it) which was being tested or something so that made me jump again.

Nearest we had in Britain was this: Domestic Nuclear Shelters

Duck & Cover indeed :stoned:

[Nation_1ne]

You really do get used to it. It happens every spring, and there are usually at least one or two serious warnings. It's kind of exciting, really. It's one of the times of year I most miss working for the fire department.

I can actually imagine it being quite exciting. I'd most likely be scared to death though.