On the rocks

[honeylocusttree]

Quick, who here lives in an area where they *don't* test the tornado sirens every month?

Has anyone who lives in an area with no sirens ever visited/moved to an area where they *do* test the sirens and gone "Auugh!" the first time?

Comments

[roque_clasique]

Yeah, I moved from MA to MN and the first time I heard them I flipped my shit. I mean, those things are so incredibly eerie.

[roque_clasique]

(We don't have them here in MT, either, fwiw)

[honeylocusttree]

They are! Reassuring on a sunny day, but if it's actual tornado weather, brr! And don't even get me started on one going off at 12 at night. *shudders*

They sound remarkably like air raid sirens! So there's a creeping, back-of-the-head sense that we're about the get bombed back to the stone age, which is never any fun.

What happens if you live in an area without them, though, and then there is a tornado? THIS CONFOUNDS ME.

[honeylocusttree]

Do houses out there even have basements?