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Around here it’s the first Tuesday of every month.
One time a friend and I went to Oahu to visit another guy, and he missed when we talked about the monthly test of the tsunami warning that was scheduled that day. He was out swimming by himself when the thing went off, and he started swimming back to shore like a maniac. I never saw a guy swim so fast in my life LOL. He kept glancing over his shoulder expecting a tsunami to be bearing down on him. Right about the time the siren stopped he came stumbling and staggering out of the water, coughing and gagging, and there we were sitting on the sand laughing our asses off. Good times.
My area tests the NPP’s sirens the first Monday of every month and now I just tune it out which worries me. Hopefully if it ever sounds in a weird time my brain picks up something’s very wrong.
LMAO, they test the sirens once a month on Wednesday, for anyone unfamiliar.
(Edited, I live real close to one, but I don’t really pay attention to the day or frequency. Tons of trains around too, you learn to drown it out.)
Midwesterner that gets noon on Friday tests here. I got the joke tho.
But what if a tornado actually appears at that time?
The image says what happens. It can’t hurt you, it’s against the rules.
Like in 2017 in Mexico when the earthquake happened like two hours after their yearly earthquake drill. People figured it out pretty quickly, but I’ve never been in a tornado so I don’t know if it’d be as easy to tell as an earthquake.
What if it’s just a very thorough drill?
It runs for maybe a minute at 1pm. If it goes off before or after, it’s not a test.
I lived in a small farm town on the Mississippi river in the Midwest for years. Their siren would literally go off at 6pm every, single, day. (Albeit very briefly) Something about letting people outside know it was time to head home for supper.
Sundown towns… were all-white municipalities or neighborhoods in the United States… The term came into use because of signs that directed “colored people” to leave town by sundown.
The towns of Minden and Gardnerville in Nevada had an ordinance from 1917 to 1974 that required Native Americans to leave the towns by 6:30 p.m. each day. A whistle, later a siren, was sounded at 6 p.m. daily, alerting Native Americans to leave by sundown. In 2021, the state of Nevada passed a law prohibiting the appropriation of Native American imagery by the mascots of schools, and the sounding of sirens that were once associated with sundown ordinances. Despite this law, Minden continued to play its siren for two more years, claiming that it was a nightly tribute to first responders.
Depends on the region. Some places will test it on noon on Sundays. The place I’m currently at will test it once a month on Wednesday at 11 am.
1pm local time on the first Wednesday of the month in my state.
As a midwesterner, it’s the first Tuesday of the month at 10 AM. At least for my state.
Coastal area checking in, same thing for the tsunami alarms. I had some good fun with a tourist when, after they asked what the droning sound was, I replied with “Oh, it’s just the tsunami alarm” and then didn’t react to it. They were visibly nervous, so I waited a sec and then said “It’s just a test 😁”
What’s a real mindfuck is going from one place to the other. SF tsunami alarms are on Tuesdays. So you have a brief moment of panic, then a brief moment of calm, and then a brief moment of EXTREME PANIC when you realize what day it is, and then calm again when you realize what state you’re in
Wow, what an alarm, huh.
Lemon, it’s Tuesday.
My country used to have those every first wednesday of a month at exactly 12:00. And then they would anounce that its a syren test.
Now they’ve swapped it. Apperantly due to Ukranian refugies being scared that there is bombing.
But still, if you want to bomb us, 12:00 on wendnesday is your spot.
We just get noon at the first Monday of the month. But it’s an air alarm, not tornado.
OH SHIT THE AIR IS COMING
Found a fellow dutchie. Also it’s the law that at least one person says “the Germans are coming!” When we hear it.
It’s not just a law, I think it’s in the constitution. Beatrix even does it every Liberation Day
Wait till they hear about the reverse tornadoes that build houses and straighten out all the trees.
Interesting We have tsunami sirens on Wednesday here on the pacific coast
Everyone knows that tornados never touch down on Wednesdays at noon. When they do… well, we’re fucked.
Reminds me of the coincidence in Mexico City’s earthquake warning system. Mexico City runs an earthquake drill every year on September 19, the anniversary of the deadly 1985 Mexico City earthquake.
Well in 2017 there actually was another deadly earthquake on that same day, 2 hours after the official drill, the sirens went off for the second time that day, as the ground started shaking. There wasn’t enough advance warning to actually have people disregard it as a false alarm, though, because by the time the sirens went off the earthquake could already be felt.
Me living near a nuclear plant, hearing sirens but then realizing it’s a Wednesday at 10 AM.
The power company now has a service that sends a text message on days they’re testing the siren, which is helpful. They won’t use it for an actual emergency, I assume because an actual emergency alert would go out.
Live in Oklahoma. Sirens get tested daily at noon. State doesn’t fuck around.
Every day??
Most days have a Noon, yes.
Yep, you always know when noon hits. If you’re outside of course. It’s not too disruptive inside.
We test every first Monday at 11am, but after the siren, there’s a voice saying that it’s a test, broadcasted over the entire city. It was pretty eerie the first time I heard it.
Oooh, I get to share my favorite link to Creepy Chicago Sirens
Happy birthday Trevor Henderson.
