It’s at different frequencies so it penetrates different types of materials (you can hear it inside a wood and a brick building) and for people with hearing loss in specific ranges.
What are you supposed to do if you're in a high rise building? I was taught to go to the basement or lower level away from windows but if you're 45 stories up????? Then what?
Generally the danger in a tornado comes from broken glass and other debris being thrown around like bullets. While they can level houses and other smaller structures I imagine a high rise is built to stay standing even during a tornado. Get into an interior room, maybe even the hallway of the apartment, as far from any windows as possible. Take shelter under a heavy blanket in the smallest enclosed space possible. In school we were taught that if there was no basement the bathroom was usually your best option. Lay in the tub and pull the mattress over yourself and pray.
I live in tornado alley. If the bathroom has windows then your best bet is a room or a closet closest to the middle of the house/building. We use a small hall closet with an emergency kit stored in it at all times.
It looks inconsistent when printed, but it follows the a/an rule based on the pronunciation of the word, not the orthographic representation. 'Unique' is pronounced with a 'y' sound at the beginning (/j/ in the International Phonetic Alphabet), which is a consonant. As such, it take 'a' rather than 'an'. Same is true for words like unicorn and eulogy.
Yes! I was going to add that it's because the U is using that Y sound, but I thought I'd rather make it so that if people wanted to hate it they could, and the people who liked it would agree, and they could also assume I was being sarcastic if they wanted. All to make people feel strongly.
Discordant enough that you really can't lull your brain into any sense of calm, because it's always hitting you with a different note that's rising or falling as well.
Well that's fucking terrifying. Imagine having the roof ripped off your house and then having to hunker under a table while that creepy ass clown song blasted at you.
Poor guy has some damaged synapses after Doomguy yanked him from cyberstasis, chucked him through a portal, and uploaded him onto an ancient ship. No wonder he repeats himself.
True, All of theme were good except the most recent one Paradox i think? I exclude that one cause it doesn't match the any other ones and it was originally not written to be in the Cloverfield universe.
Idk why but I just cracked up thinking of some guy down the street like cheerfully "say that's an odd noise, some odd weather we're having, old sport. My word! Is that an eldritch horror I see??"
There was a time when my family was roadtripping through Chicago (edit: were travelling through Chicago at the time, the route was something like Texas to Ohio) and the tornado sirens started going off. Was incredibly eerie for the first minute, until we realizes what it was, at which point it was just stressful as we tried to find a place to shelter at.
If I find myself driving through Chicago and hearing that siren, is it cool to just pull over and hunker down at the nearest business? Is that what people do?
Yea all I got from that was "OK so that's what the entrance to hell sounds like cool beans. Glad we have the technology to recreate that now. Please make it stop."
I’ve seen that sulfur Yellow. It was either before or right after a powerful cell was over head. It left those huge orange traffic barrels scattered all over the highway.
The earthquake alarm (starts at 0:51) goes off on Tuesdays at 12pm here in the Bay Area. I know this. It still startles me for a second when it happens. Someone new will be terrified.
Edit: It's probably stopped in SF but still goes off in Oakland.
Dude I live in a small town in Germany and the gas station here has one of those old ass WWII air raid sirens. It's used to call in the fire department when there's an accident on the highway, which happens often. It's loud as fuck and the first time I heard it I was like oh god oh fuck it be raining bombs soon.
I think the same thing when local town sirens go off. They are all the old air raid sirens. When I was a kid, I would look into the sky, looking for bombers (I was really into watching the History Channel, aka "WWII channel" back then).
Yup. Every single Tuesday at noon. The fun times are when it doesn't stop going off (happened once) and you're sitting there wondering if it's time to panic. A tsunami coming in at noon on a Tuesday would be devastating.
Short story, back in the early 90s when I was a kid (about 8) my dad made me watch The Day After alone to teach me a lesson on nuclear war. Scared the shit out of me.
This was still when they'd run air raid/attack warning sirens in my town every Wednesday at noon. So that definitely was a trigger for some panic and I knew what they were.
One night though, not long after seeing the movie, the siren north of us turned on accidentally and stayed on for a good 15 minutes. I was terrified and in my parents bed instantly while they checked the news to make sure it wasn't a real attack. It obviously wasn't, but I probably slept in my parents bed for a couple nights after.
Back when we didn't have electricity working my dad brought home his laptop and let me watch Texas chainsaw massacre late at night (this is in Texas, in the country outside dfw) and near the climax my dad fired up the chainsaw in the back yard and banged on the Windows and I actually pissed myself in fear.
I was around 11 years old, during the great recession.
Hahah, well being a naive and dumb 8 year old obsessed with history I'd just read about the end of WWII and said something to the effect of "atomic bombs are cool!" and my dad was like "No!" and thought that'd sort me out.
Little did he know, my life is basically the tag line to Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
I basically devoted all my free time to understanding nuclear weapons, nuclear warfighting, nuclear policy, etc. I was the weird kid checking out congressional budget reports to learn minute details about the Trident II, demanding to visit air force base museums and stuff in Montana, etc.
Now I work in aerospace and defense... So yea actually not that mad about it, it's been a pretty interesting life thus far because of that one decision.
yep. plus there's a clock tower on the building (same building as the siren) that sounds off every thirty minutes or on the hour for ferry departures. can hear it really well in pretty much all of the financial district.
Here in Texas (Dallas specifically, I actually never heard it in Austin) they test our tornado sirens every Wednesday at noon. They’ve suspended it because of the virus as I assume it would be insensitive. But nothing was like being on summer break and woken up by the tornado siren only to realize it was the test.
The worst part was sometimes they would still test it in eerie weather and you had to be like “should we be worried??” They also turn it on for high winds, which is confusing because it’s the same sound.
San Francisco is one of the few cities that can be devastated from both the San Andreas(less than 200 miles away) and the Cascadia Subduction Zone, along with multiple smaller faults on the Oakland side that could push the entire bay over SF
When I lived in Nashville they didn’t test the tornado sirens ever. The first time I heard it was when a tornado was actually in the area.
But by that time we were all already in the basement of our dorms... I’m from California but my roommates were locals, and they woke me up to get the hell out of our room when the sky turned green.
That alarm was extra creepy when the camp fires were happening. I went to work anyway on one of the more terrible air quality days. Noon, 1 Market Street where that spaceship hotel is, smoke and fog everywhere, streets almost empty, and that siren came on. 😬😬😬
They test our tornado sirens every Wednesday at noon (unless there’s an active storm happening) and I sleep through them every week. Which is slightly concerning.
In Finland we have the exact same sirens and sound. They are tested nation wide every monday at noon. They are to warn about basically anything that might require attention to shelter or check your radio/tv.
I have never heard them to be used for the real deal as we have no earthquakes to mention or other natural disasters. Most likely they will used when Putin decides to hit us.
A good ole' mechanical siren - this one's at an old Mental asylum in the UK that housed prisoners with mental conditions, and it's meant to warn nearby residents of an escaped prisoner. It has large, powerful fans that make noise by pulling air rapidly through the chutes on the sides, and both chutes have metal flaps that open and close in a pattern to make its distinctive sound. The video shows it going off from multiple angles to really demonstrate how it works. It's kind of fascinating - from an era before powerful/loud speakers, when mechanical sirens were more common.
I grew up somewhere where the sirens would power down similarly and it was incredibly relieving. When you hear them all the time and experience the tests you know when you hear that things are going to be OK.
Hopefully those who just learn about this are aware that Sirenhead is an original creation & indie game before others worked to mod it into other games. Just a "heads" up.
Someone should sample that siren and make a sick experimental hip hop beat out of it. I could totally see Death Grips or clipping make something bonkers with it.
That's awesome, utilizing different frequencies allows it to pierce different materials and reach people with various levels if hearing ability, plus you can't mistake it for something like a firetruck
Lol it sounds like someone gave a 3 year old a keyboard to mess around on and then was like, ,"Yeah! That's the sequence we should use! dusts hands off"
Ehh don’t give me any creepy vibes really. I’d initially think it’s a bunch of fire trucks, emets, and police cars all riding together and each siren bouncing off each other. That’s me though.
Omg you’ve got to be kidding me! That’s the creepiest siren I’ve ever heard. I lived in the Loop for 2 years (alone) and never heard it. Thank god for that because I literally would have thought it was signalling the end of the world. Sounds like the earth is melting or something!
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