Author Topic: ever wanna get freaked out? (Read 615 times)

Mustaine · « **on:** July 25, 2005, 11:57:11 PM »

be just starting to doze off at night, and have the tornado siren go off (which is right near your house).

called to make sure, yup tornado sighted. it's midnight, can't see a thing, live in an upper apartment, no renters insurance.

rpm · « **Reply #1 on:** July 26, 2005, 12:09:29 AM »

Pfft... I live in a doublewide. 2 years ago my 1500 lb metal well house wound up 186 yards away. The house didn't get a scratch, but it was freaky there for a couple seconds.

SOB · « **Reply #2 on:** July 26, 2005, 12:18:26 AM »

It rains here in Oregon more than most places.

Meatwad · « **Reply #3 on:** July 26, 2005, 01:25:00 AM »

jb73 what state you live in?

Thrawn · « **Reply #4 on:** July 26, 2005, 01:35:14 AM »

Tornado siren? How the heck is it triggered?

Meatwad · « **Reply #5 on:** July 26, 2005, 01:37:55 AM »

a lot of towns use wireless radios to activete them using audio tones or what not. ours is set on a tone of somewhere 2000 hz and when it hears that exact tone, it activates the siren via radio transmitter at the dispatcher's place

SOB · « **Reply #6 on:** July 26, 2005, 08:03:29 AM »

JB73 is a cheesehead.

Mustaine · « **Reply #7 on:** July 26, 2005, 08:42:15 AM »

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Originally posted by Meatwad
jb73 what state you live in?

WI

the one we have is triggered directly from the national weather service.

turns out there was a "funnel" about 7 or 8 miles north of me, never touched down.

just to be awakened by that... grrrrrr

Octavius · « **Reply #8 on:** July 26, 2005, 08:59:48 AM »

That was a kick bellybutton storm last night. Woke me up during my 16 hour nap around 1am.

You're still in Germantown right 73? Most of the big storms peak a few miles west of Milwaukee. "We're too close to the lake," they say, "no tornado will hit us." Then about three years ago we had one touch down at a busy intersection a few yards from the airport. It spuns some cars around and tossed one into a blockbuster.

Mustaine · « **Reply #9 on:** July 26, 2005, 09:11:38 AM »

yup.. still G-town. the bad nasty stuff was just south east of jackson.

there were warnings all over for port washington, and along the lakeshore.

i remember that one your are talking about. the chilli peppers were playing summerfest that day, and my cousin and some friends were at the show. one of them couldn't get home because they blocked the roads to their house. he wwas freaked, not knowing if the tornado took out his house (it was fine).

Maverick · « **Reply #10 on:** July 26, 2005, 10:21:20 AM »

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Originally posted by Thrawn
Tornado siren? How the heck is it triggered?

They have a switch that resembles and probably IS the butterfly trigger from a M-2 MG. When a tornado is sited via radar the tornado gunner responds to the switch and attempts to intimidate said tornado with a loud piercing wail from what looks like a large machine gun. Canadian tornado's are instantly terrorized and vanish up their oubliete.

Boroda · « **Reply #11 on:** July 26, 2005, 11:50:11 AM »

Tornado siren...

If i'll hear a sound of a sirens in Moscow at night - the first thing that will come into my mind is that we are being bombed.

Heard a siren test on Gagarin square going to work in 1999. Got freaking scared. And it was only one siren, not all civilian defence sirens in every block.

At school we once were sent to a basement to check some old stuff like Army tents we used in summer camps, and we found a manual siren underneath. Only 3-4 handle rotations in a basement made the whole school (3 buildings) almost run out in horror...

Mustaine · « **Reply #12 on:** July 26, 2005, 12:00:05 PM »

Boroda.. thats basically what it is... a giant air raid siren on top of a telephone pole. it spins around when going off (so the sounds does not go just 1 direction)

it is loud a crap, and i guess it could be called a "civil emergency" siren, though tornados are the only thing that really sets it off.

Boroda · « **Reply #13 on:** July 26, 2005, 12:30:23 PM »

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Originally posted by Mustaine
Boroda.. thats basically what it is... a giant air raid siren on top of a telephone pole. it spins around when going off (so the sounds does not go just 1 direction)

it is loud a crap, and i guess it could be called a "civil emergency" siren, though tornados are the only thing that really sets it off.

I have heard that in Far East they have "Tsunami warning sirens", triggered by sudden ocean water level going down. Or they don't have sirens, just alarms? Sirens are assosiated only with air raids here

rshubert · « **Reply #14 on:** July 26, 2005, 01:24:55 PM »

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Originally posted by Boroda
I have heard that in Far East they have "Tsunami warning sirens", triggered by sudden ocean water level going down. Or they don't have sirens, just alarms? Sirens are assosiated only with air raids here

Boroda, we have literally HUNDREDS of tornados a year here in the midwestern USA. A warning system makes sense under those circumstances. During the springtime and summer here, there are frequent thunderstorms, and the possibility of tornados forming is always there in those circumstances.

In recent years, the country has installed a series of doppler radar stations, that give a good indication of where tornados are forming. The number of alerts has gone up, since the radar system doesn't depend on an observer reporting the tornado.

Do they have a lot of tornados in Russia? We don't hear much about it here if they do.