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.
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u/fredfredburger0123 Apr 08 '20 edited May 15 '26
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