Woken Up By Air Raid Sirens This Morning wtf?

[matcom]

air raid or tornado or i don't know what all.

never heard THAT before in the 9 years i've lived here.

this is a small massachusetts town. Tornados? :wtf: Air Raid? :wtf:

i can't think of what else it would be. did the wind damage the local Packie?

now THAT would be an emergency!

*YAWN*

[GOPisEvil]

1. My bet: drunk local volunteer fireman

:D

[matcom]

2. now THAT i can believe

"Hey Bob, Al is upstairs sleeping one off. He was out till 3 am and came in shitfaced this morning. Whadda ya say we fuck with him and wake the entire town in the process!"

:silly:

[GOPisEvil]

5. Either that or 40-year-old corroded wires are to blame.

Er...even if the drunk is the reason, the "official" story will be corroded wiring.

[Allenberg]

4. Heh, sounds about right.

[billyskank]

3. What does this button do?

:o

[Mutley]

6. Near my job is an air raid siren they test every Monday at 1pm.

So, a few months ago, on a Monday, this woman is in the store browsing with a cup of coffee in her hands. Well, my watch beeps one o'clock, and right on time the siren goes off. The woman screams, "Jesus FUCKING Christ, what the hell is going on?!?" and drops her coffee on the floor. She looks ready to duck and cover when I explain to her that they're just testing it. She then gives me a nasty look like I'm the one who made her look stupid.

:eyes:

I love working in retail.

[billyskank]

14. Mutley I can feel your love for your job

literally oozing from my computer. :7

[Mutley]

15. I HATE my job!

:D

[billyskank]

16. No, you're just saying that

:)

[Mutley]

17. You're right. You caught me.

It's actually quite a joy to get shit on every day by stuck-up snobby assed mother fuckers.

:rofl:

Wow! The LANGUAGE coming out of my mouth today is HORRENDOUS!

[billyskank]

18. !

:o

[Mutley]

20. Uh oh, I've shocked billy silent!

Will he ever recover?!?

:cry:

[billyskank]

22. .

Aaaaaaaaaaaaahh! :)

[Mutley]

23. Phew!

I was about to call the ambulance. It would have been tough, though, since I don't know the number for 911 in the UK. :rofl:

[billyskank]

24. It's 999

although I hear that so many people here think it's 911 (lots of US TV shows and films, you see) that they actually made 911 work too. :)

[Mutley]

25. Ah, the American corruption of the UK.

My plan is working, BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

[Midlodemocrat]

7. Probably a test of the emergency broadcast system.

Had this been a real emergency, you would have been instructed where to turn for information.

Goes off here every once in a while.

[matcom]

9. at 7am on a SATURDAY?

x(

since this wasnt' a real emergency i have been instructed to cut off their fingers

[Midlodemocrat]

10. They knew you were hungover, so they did it just to spite you.

You should smite them. I would.

[matcom]

11. but i'm NOT hungover

they had faulty information

[Midlodemocrat]

12. You're not????? You aren't trying very hard, are you????

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. Reminds me of when the White Sox won the pennant in 1959....

Mayor Daley I set off the air raid sirens sometime after 10 p.m. that night to celebrate. I was 10 at the time, and this was during the height of the Cold War duck-and-cover era. Jumped on the floor and got into the position I had learned at school. When nothing happened, I went into my parents' bedroom (they were still awake and reading) and suggested we head to the basement. They had actually figured out what was happening and so we went and told my sister, who was ducking and covering in her own bedroom.

[Throckmorton]

13. Or Flash Flood Warning

some people are really taking it on the chin in New England this morning.

[usedtobesick]

19. I would second this option.... they used the siren to warn us

when the creeks left their beds...

[matcom]

21. my basement is wet

not flooded but wet. local news showing people fishing in waist deep water (on their towns MAIN STREET)

we had almost 5 more inches last night. lucky i live on a hill. its a real mess.

expecting 50mph wind gusts tomorrow so we are expecting lots of trees down.

[xmas74]

26. If it's an older siren system

a bird could have flown into it. Otherwise, they are testing out the sirens(something that they are legally supposed to do occasionally).
For info-one long burst is tornado and short, stattaco bursts is air raid (when I dispatched it was my job to test the sirens).

[tjwmason]

27. The Canadians started to invade.

But they realised that Mass already has high taxes and gay marriage so they went home. :shrug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

28. ROFLMAO!

:rofl:

[wovenpaint]

29. Are u anywhere near Pilgrim power plant?

I used to live down that way and the day I heard those sirens being tested-and how close they sounded-was the day our house was put on the market (long ago now). :scared:
Good luck with the winds tomorrow. I've got a "reflecting pool" in my basement at the moment myself-but NO complaints, considering.....

[stlsaxman]

30. Here in MO they use the EBS for "Amber Alert"s nowadays...

drives me fuckin' NUTS! Every time the sirens go off I figure I have to get right with God then the computer voice comes on and says there's an 18 y/o white girl "suspected missing"...

... then I wipe the shit from inside my underwear and go about my business.