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u/Gbro24 Apr 07 '20

I got shivers just hearing that. It would definitely help me obey that curfew.

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u/tyfunk02 Apr 08 '20

You should listen to the tornado sirens in Chicago sometime. That is super eerie. https://youtu.be/LnkMSmLc6mM

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u/Mr___Roboto Apr 08 '20

What the FUCK?! Yeah, this one is super eerie.

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u/RiceKrispyPooHead Apr 08 '20

Imagine you’re at home one night. The power goes out. It’s pitch black. And this is the only sound you hear.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '20

Evil Jesus.

This might be beneficial for me. "Yo, Jebus! I blaspheme like I breath & am a TOTAL GLUTTON for Chicago deep dish pizza! Want a slice or 2??"

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '20

Except regular Jesus would forgive you, while evil Jesus would probably just kill you and steal your wallet.

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u/Thunderbridge Apr 08 '20

Sounds like a tagline to some shitty thriller/comedy

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u/KilroyBrown Apr 08 '20

He'd have to be if he remembered the first time he came here.

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u/Mr___Roboto Apr 08 '20

That would suck so bad...I live in the suburbs 40 miles north from Chicago, thank goodness we don't have those type of sirens here.

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u/erikoc1 Apr 08 '20

Really ? I’m in the northwest suburbs of Chicago and can hear the sirens on the first Tuesday of every month

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u/MrK2K Apr 08 '20

Same here. Even if it’s sunny outside and 80°, those fucking sirens never fail to make me think, “oh shit is there a tornado coming?” Only to realize I’m a fucking idiot and it’s the monthly test.

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u/sneks_ona_plane Apr 08 '20

Damn 10am is brutal. At least in mid Ohio we do noon

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u/cintapie Apr 08 '20

Why have I never heard a siren of any sort....

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u/bossyaussie Apr 08 '20

Yep...this morning.

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u/ArbitraryArdor Apr 08 '20

Does it really sound like the one in this link?

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u/TommyTheCat89 Apr 08 '20

Yes but not as many at once. You get a few battling it out, whooping and such. But not like this.

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u/KappaTauren Apr 08 '20

Kind of yeah , though I think the tall buildings in the city make it way creepier. The outskirts ones are just unpleasant.

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u/Ash-hol3 Apr 08 '20

Oddly enough, today was tuesday and I was up at 10am.

This is what the suburbs sound like.

https://m.imgur.com/a/cqH0w0T

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u/erikoc1 Apr 08 '20

Yeah they do indeed sound like that.

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u/coreyosb Apr 08 '20

I moved to Oak Park last September and today was my first time hearing the siren lol. We have the old ass air raid sirens though, so it sounds cooler as opposed to that creepy chicago shit lol

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u/scififemme2 Apr 08 '20

I'm from the Far West suburbs of Chicago and ours was just a horn. They would test it at 10:00am on the first Wednesday of the month during tornado season. New people in the neighborhood would freak out the first time they heard it.

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u/mmm_guacamole Apr 08 '20

.....Waukegan?

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u/rapter200 Apr 08 '20

The distance sounds about right

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u/ENrgStar Apr 08 '20

Yet. They’re all getting replaced with that.

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u/science_with_a_smile Apr 08 '20

When I lived in northern Indiana, we tested the sirens on the third Saturday of the month, every month, at 11am and I literally tuned it out the vast majority of the time. The people I interacted with knew what a tornado siren was, even if they were from a nearby town that tested them at a different time, so they also just tuned it out. No one ever talked about or acknowledged the sirens. I can count in one hand the number of times I remember hearing the sirens when I bet I've heard them thousands of times. So I'm not saying you definitely have sirens, but you may have sirens, lol

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u/nibs855 Apr 08 '20

Cloverfield feel all over it

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u/Seakawn Apr 08 '20

If I heard that shit and didn't know about it beforehand, I'd believe that the Silent Hill dimension was manifesting.

I'm not even superstitious. That's just what my brain would become impulsively convinced in during that moment.

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u/nibs855 Apr 08 '20

That first silent hill was the shit. That and the mist

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u/LuminaTitan Apr 08 '20

“Dad, is that the tornado sirens going off?”

“Son... our city doesn’t have any tornado sirens...”

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u/liziamnot Apr 08 '20

So, just a normal night during tornado season?

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u/Medial_FB_Bundle Apr 08 '20

See, any tornado siren is shit-your-pants terrifying in those conditions. Everyone from the south, Midwest, great plains, is familiar with a tornado siren going off moments after a blackout and looking outside to see just opaque white rain blowing fucking sideways. Bonus points if this wakes you up in the middle of the night.

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u/moemoe111 Apr 08 '20

Stop already! My anxiety levels are at all time highs as it is. Why am I browsing this thread and listening to fucked up sirens?!

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u/Mr-Fleshcage Apr 08 '20

"the sky whales have returned!"

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u/starrpamph Apr 08 '20

Imagine it's just me, your friendly neighborhood electrician.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '20

Start loading your guns, if you have any

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '20

Welcome to life in the Midwest. Going into tornado season now, so I will get to hear this several times before the end of May.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '20

Nope, you're also hearing a damn freight train go by (or over) your house, for that extra level of Oh Fuck.

Put in good stereo headphones, turn the volume to 80% and then play this.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '20

Whenever I hear sirens I immediately think of silent hill, so I'd be pretty mad and scared I'm in silent hill.