I'm glad you are OK. And I'm not even a grad student but the first thing I would have grabbed would have been the computer too. The good one, not the POS in my room, for the record.
Of course, looking at the radar, it looks like you got hammered again tonight by the second wave. Maybe some of the cicadas will drown and stop mating outside your window. :)
The siren coming back on wasn't another warning. When they've gone off, then come back on and hold a steady pitch rather than ranging up and down, that's the all-clear.
At least that's how the air raid sirens in Europe work.
ehh, never mind, I just heard Indiana stopped doing all-clear signals because it was confusing the hicks. Damn, that means I could have ended up in Oz because I thought it was safe again.
Well that answers the question I just posted below. How stupid. When I was in KSA, the first siren meant "air raid" or "the refinery's about to blow", the second meant "all clear, you can get out from under your coffee tables and desks".
See, I thought the second siren was the All-Clear and took it as a cue to get out of the basement. I really didn't enjoy being down there with all those nasty, horrible spiders.
What is the tornado siren policy around here? Wail until it's all over, or wail a while to warn people and wail again to tell 'em it's ok?
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I'm glad you are OK. And I'm not even a grad student but the first thing I would have grabbed would have been the computer too. The good one, not the POS in my room, for the record.
Of course, looking at the radar, it looks like you got hammered again tonight by the second wave. Maybe some of the cicadas will drown and stop mating outside your window. :)
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At least that's how the air raid sirens in Europe work.
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From what I understand, the steady signal indicates severe weather, while the warbling siren indicates "other"...
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Simple.
Stupid hicks and their stupid stupidness.
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What is the tornado siren policy around here? Wail until it's all over, or wail a while to warn people and wail again to tell 'em it's ok?
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