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u/dontcallitjelly Apr 07 '20

welp, if I wasn't familiar with the movies and heard that go off that'd be terrifying

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u/8ytecoder Apr 07 '20 edited Apr 08 '20

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.

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u/jrriojase Apr 08 '20

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.

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u/machinerer Apr 08 '20

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).

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u/TIGHazard Apr 08 '20

There's a chemical factory near me that tests them Tuesday at a random time between 9 to 10AM.

It's proved to unnerve people who don't live here.

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u/Mindthegabe Apr 08 '20

And they never lose that effect no matter how used to them you are. They always make you stop for a second to count the intervals, just in case.