Cannon Beach: Doing its part to keep Western Oregon weird. Well done! I have a vested interest in supporting this novel "cow siren" type of warning test. The regular kind nearly wrecked me. I almost tore out a recent surgical repair in my left knee at a pierside RV park Crescent City, CA because I arrived at 3 AM in my RV. I did not realize that I was parked about 150' from the tsunami warning siren that they fired up for 3 minutes at 10 AM the next morning as their monthly system test! I grew up in tornado country, and our community used the same exact kind of sirens to announce tornadoes. They only ran the sirens on a steady output for 3 minutes if there was an actual tornado in the area. Their system tests only lasted 1 minute, and the siren varied up and down in intensity. That way, everyone could quickly determine that a system test was in progress, and not a tornado. When that GIGANTIC tsunami warning siren went off next to my RV, I was dead asleep from exhaustion, because I had recently had knee surgery, and I had been RVing solo across the southwestern U.S. for almost a week, and had reached my destination by the sea. I thought the warning was legit, because the ear-splitting siren ran for 3 minutes straight, and I was unable to reach anyone at 911 to find out if it was a test, or not. No one answered my frantic calls. My still-sleepy self went on autopilot. I sprung out of bed as that siren caterwauled its Hellishly loud wail into the center of my brain. I leaped out of the RV door in a flash, so I could escape the oncoming tsunami by unhooking the rig from water and power and driving inland as fast as I could go. Unfortunately, my motor home sits pretty high off of the ground. My front door steps were locked in the raised position, and so I barely managed to hold onto the safety handle on the outside wall, and awkwardly swing down to the ground. I was only one month post-op, and when I hit the pavement on that leg, it was NOT happy about that! My leg folded like an old lawn chair and dumped me on the pavement. Fortunately, as I sat there trying to deal with the pain, I looked around, and quickly noticed that none of the long-term RV park guests were leaping out of their rigs, and so, I tried 911 again, and reached someone who told me it was a monthly system test. It took a half hour for my adrenaline-soaked system to begin to wind down, and until it did, my heart pounded hard enough to ache. I sure would have preferred to have been awakened by the sounds of mooing cows and a calm voice explaining what in the Heck was going on!
I agree! This is why electronic sirens are so much better. They are capable of playing voiceover and custom tones, such as this cow. I have almost always preferred electronic sirens over mechanical sirens for this reason--they can actually let you know it's a test.
😂 why is it so slow heard tornado test sirens in the south and they don’t talk slow are they saying people on the coast are slow seems weird but like the cow sound for testing much better than the sirens in Columbus Georgia every Saturday blaring after a night out drinking lol 😅
Wow, this is funny! XD Do you happen to know when and what time does Cannon Beach conduct these routine siren tests? I would love to head down there sometime and record the test for myself.
Don't quote me on this but I believe a thing was passed to where any oregon coastal city with a tsunami siren had to test them on wednesdays' at 11. Lincoln city tests theirs at that time give or take 30 minutes.
Damn. We've got something similar in my town, Port Alberni, except recently it's been playing a fucking didgeridoo! It was goddamn horrifying the first time I heard it. Town is situated in the base of a valley, so the echo made it sound like the sky was literally falling. I thought it was the end of the world, lol.
No, it's smart! The moo is just for tests. "The COWS tsunami siren tests are a smart practice because by using the “moo” alarm for tests of the system, it lessens the “cry wolf” syndrome which happens when frequent false alarms occur, making the public dismissive of warning systems. As indicated in Dennis Mileti’s presentation on public warnings: “When an actual disaster event occurs, the individual response contradicts what had been drilled and practiced. An example of this would be when a fire alarm is constantly sounded; the individual will turn it off and deactivate the alarm instead of leaving the building.” additional studies have been done that confirm this syndrome through the study of psychological effects of behavior as a result of false alarms. Research suggests that “a single false alarm reduces the fear reaction to the next threat by close to fifty percent.”
E.Shelby House I think the Westminster Chime tone, which is built into most modern electronic sirens, is a bit better. Plus, it can help the speakers run longer, as the low-pitched growl at the beginning of each moo can damage the speakers.
@@stampycatfan01lol As far as I know, Whelen sirens, which the COWS system utilizes, have stronger drivers than some other electronic sirens. Personally, Modulators are better than Whelens, and if the fire district ever replaces the sirens used for COWS, I'd go with broadcasting the cow mooing over a Modulator. But Whelens, especially omni-directional 2800 series Whelens, are pretty sturdy. I've seen very few Whelen sirens with damaged drivers, and trust me, I've seen plenty of Whelens. They're all over Port Saint Lucie, where my old psychiatrist was (I have PTSD) and there's a 2802 system at Florida Atlantic University campuses. Also, Westminster Chime is not included in the Whelen siren software/hardware without extra fees (I believe adding the chime function adds expenses to the final cost, or at least that's what their website implies), and isn't very loud. I know it's not loud because I used to live near a 2802 at an FAU campus, and its chime was quieter than the actual siren. I could hear the siren (though they only used the Wail tone) from my old apartment bedroom, but to hear the daily noon chime I had to go outside and still it was kind of quiet. It's possible they adjusted the volume for the chime, but not likely. They tested the Wail tone annually and it was a spectacle I looked forward to every year until my dad moved to Orlando and I had to move in with my mom, who lived too far from FAU to continue monitoring the siren. Thankfully, I hear plenty of siren oddities here on UA-cam, this being one, and the Cannon Beach COWS system is the subject of my next script for Broken Solar Panel.
Cannon Beach: Doing its part to keep Western Oregon weird.
Well done! I have a vested interest in supporting this novel "cow siren" type of warning test. The regular kind nearly wrecked me.
I almost tore out a recent surgical repair in my left knee at a pierside RV park Crescent City, CA because I arrived at 3 AM in my RV. I did not realize that I was parked about 150' from the tsunami warning siren that they fired up for 3 minutes at 10 AM the next morning as their monthly system test!
I grew up in tornado country, and our community used the same exact kind of sirens to announce tornadoes. They only ran the sirens on a steady output for 3 minutes if there was an actual tornado in the area. Their system tests only lasted 1 minute, and the siren varied up and down in intensity. That way, everyone could quickly determine that a system test was in progress, and not a tornado.
When that GIGANTIC tsunami warning siren went off next to my RV, I was dead asleep from exhaustion, because I had recently had knee surgery, and I had been RVing solo across the southwestern U.S. for almost a week, and had reached my destination by the sea. I thought the warning was legit, because the ear-splitting siren ran for 3 minutes straight, and I was unable to reach anyone at 911 to find out if it was a test, or not. No one answered my frantic calls.
My still-sleepy self went on autopilot. I sprung out of bed as that siren caterwauled its Hellishly loud wail into the center of my brain.
I leaped out of the RV door in a flash, so I could escape the oncoming tsunami by unhooking the rig from water and power and driving inland as fast as I could go.
Unfortunately, my motor home sits pretty high off of the ground. My front door steps were locked in the raised position, and so I barely managed to hold onto the safety handle on the outside wall, and awkwardly swing down to the ground. I was only one month post-op, and when I hit the pavement on that leg, it was NOT happy about that!
My leg folded like an old lawn chair and dumped me on the pavement.
Fortunately, as I sat there trying to deal with the pain, I looked around, and quickly noticed that none of the long-term RV park guests were leaping out of their rigs, and so, I tried 911 again, and reached someone who told me it was a monthly system test. It took a half hour for my adrenaline-soaked system to begin to wind down, and until it did, my heart pounded hard enough to ache.
I sure would have preferred to have been awakened by the sounds of mooing cows and a calm voice explaining what in the Heck was going on!
I agree! This is why electronic sirens are so much better. They are capable of playing voiceover and custom tones, such as this cow. I have almost always preferred electronic sirens over mechanical sirens for this reason--they can actually let you know it's a test.
Today I am proud to live in Oregon, because I learned that this exists.
Can you imagine if they put rooster sound on the sirens. That would be hilarious 🤣
or a dog barking
Even mooing cows sound creepy, when projected loudly over big speakers. I'd like to know which signal they use for actual warnings...
Similar to air raid sirens: ua-cam.com/video/en6pMz3uvik/v-deo.html
This is actually the old version of the test, you can hear the Dmtf tones, and a longer “unheard portion” of the message
😂 why is it so slow heard tornado test sirens in the south and they don’t talk slow are they saying people on the coast are slow seems weird but like the cow sound for testing much better than the sirens in Columbus Georgia every Saturday blaring after a night out drinking lol 😅
I just realized that I lived very close to a very unique siren system!
Wow, this is funny! XD
Do you happen to know when and what time does Cannon Beach conduct these routine siren tests? I would love to head down there sometime and record the test for myself.
Don't quote me on this but I believe a thing was passed to where any oregon coastal city with a tsunami siren had to test them on wednesdays' at 11. Lincoln city tests theirs at that time give or take 30 minutes.
It’s not that cool it’s a little scary
Lincoln city Oregon likely other towns on the Oregon coast tests every Wednesday at 11:00
Should have included Cow and Bigfoot farts.
Cows? That’s new lol!
it is a whelen wps 3016 speaker siren.
Damn. We've got something similar in my town, Port Alberni, except recently it's been playing a fucking didgeridoo! It was goddamn horrifying the first time I heard it. Town is situated in the base of a valley, so the echo made it sound like the sky was literally falling. I thought it was the end of the world, lol.
So is that how the Vegetarians apocalypse should sound like?
Strange Whelen... O_o... WTF!!!
whats weird is that they have 2 unique sirens (Dual Whelen WS 3016 & 4 Whelen Hornets on a single pole)
whelen wps 3016?
dual wps 3016
COW ALARM!!!
They even got the phone number input sound
A good way to prevent a cry wolf
The actual reason is a running gag of the system's name.
lol seems like a book called escaping the great waves
It talks about this in the end, I watched this after reading the book
I READ IT AND CAME TO THIS VID BECAUSE OF THAT
@@jonasknowsweather1250 SAME
One of these days, those cows will be the harbinger of destruction.
Keep Oregon Weird
WAT??? (explodes)
Just use the Westminster Chime for the test. A cow mooing is too ridiculous.
No, it's smart! The moo is just for tests. "The COWS tsunami siren tests are a smart practice because by using the “moo” alarm for tests of the system, it lessens the “cry wolf” syndrome which happens when frequent false alarms occur, making the public dismissive of warning systems. As indicated in Dennis Mileti’s presentation on public warnings: “When an actual disaster event occurs, the individual response contradicts what had been drilled and practiced. An example of this would be when a fire alarm is constantly sounded; the individual will turn it off and deactivate the alarm instead of leaving the building.” additional studies have been done that confirm this syndrome through the study of psychological effects of behavior as a result of false alarms. Research suggests that “a single false alarm reduces the fear reaction to the next threat by close to fifty percent.”
E.Shelby House I think the Westminster Chime tone, which is built into most modern electronic sirens, is a bit better. Plus, it can help the speakers run longer, as the low-pitched growl at the beginning of each moo can damage the speakers.
@@stampycatfan01lol As far as I know, Whelen sirens, which the COWS system utilizes, have stronger drivers than some other electronic sirens. Personally, Modulators are better than Whelens, and if the fire district ever replaces the sirens used for COWS, I'd go with broadcasting the cow mooing over a Modulator. But Whelens, especially omni-directional 2800 series Whelens, are pretty sturdy. I've seen very few Whelen sirens with damaged drivers, and trust me, I've seen plenty of Whelens. They're all over Port Saint Lucie, where my old psychiatrist was (I have PTSD) and there's a 2802 system at Florida Atlantic University campuses. Also, Westminster Chime is not included in the Whelen siren software/hardware without extra fees (I believe adding the chime function adds expenses to the final cost, or at least that's what their website implies), and isn't very loud. I know it's not loud because I used to live near a 2802 at an FAU campus, and its chime was quieter than the actual siren. I could hear the siren (though they only used the Wail tone) from my old apartment bedroom, but to hear the daily noon chime I had to go outside and still it was kind of quiet. It's possible they adjusted the volume for the chime, but not likely.
They tested the Wail tone annually and it was a spectacle I looked forward to every year until my dad moved to Orlando and I had to move in with my mom, who lived too far from FAU to continue monitoring the siren. Thankfully, I hear plenty of siren oddities here on UA-cam, this being one, and the Cannon Beach COWS system is the subject of my next script for Broken Solar Panel.
I was there
I bet don't take much bull in this ;)
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