One detail about Emergency broadcasting in Canada the emergency public warning system (the red circle with a yellow lightning bolt) was only used in the province of Alberta. The rest of Canada wouldn’t get a standard for emergency broadcast until the implementation of Alerts Ready in 2015
This is more of a severe weather warning, but it does fit into the Emergency Broadcast topic. During the mid 90s, KELO-TV used to have a really scary sounding Tornado Warning break-in if the need arose. It had a very loud tornado-siren like noise that really got your attention, and as a kid, freaked me out. The only footage that I have of it is from a KELO-TV 50th Anniversary special from 2003 where it was briefly shown during a segment regarding their weather coverage, though it's partially covered up by narration.
EncoreEnterprisesLLC are you referring to the one that had the voiceover message that included something about alerting your deaf or hard of hearing neighbors? I’d love to see a video of that one again sometime. If that’s the one you’re referring too, do you have the video from that 2003 special and is it currently uploaded?
@@dustingettman95 I have not digitized that KELO 50th Anniversary special yet, and it will be a while before I can. It's currently in storage about a four hour drive away from my current residence and I'm also seeking out a better way to transfer VHS content to my PC. I have an ancient Dazzle DVC100 (a thrift store find) that doesn't play nice with modern video editing software. As for the slide itself, I can't recall the meteorologist telling people to alert their deaf neighbors, but since I was a kid, there's a chance I simply missed that part. The slide itself did state in all caps "ALERT YOUR DEAF NEIGHBOR" in the lower left corner.
EncoreEnterprisesLLC i don’t know anything about video editing software, but getting something from VHS to DVD to then just copy onto your computer should be the easy part. Two and a half years ago I bought something like this, this might be the same model, at Walmart for around $200 instead of the $600 they’re asking for now www.walmart.com/ip/Sanyo-DVD-Recorder-VCR-Combo/44465826. At the time they were still kept in stock in stores but they must not make them anymore because it looks like they only have one left in their warehouse now so they must be pricing it based on supply and demand. But the link itself has other similar products suggested that are cheaper. Either way the digitization seems like it would be easier than with that Dazzle DVC 100.
Something interesting to make a note of at 5:58. Japan, aside from the Richter scale, has another scale for earthquakes, that range from 1 to 7, called the Shindou scale. That musical tone is something you do NOT want to hear, because that means that there has been detections of, if I recall correctly, intensity 5-Lower. (Yes, intensity 5 and 6 are split into two ratings, lower and higher.) And basically, this means there's going to be a TON of rattling. And given that this particular clip was from the 3/11/11 earthquake... yeah.
Pun i saw one earlier today from 2016 where a news anchor yelled something along the lines of: REMEMBER THE GREAT EASTERN EARTHQUAKE! PROTECT YOURSELVES! EVACUATE IMME-“ it was a 5- lower earthquake, that issued a tsunami warning
Is it even possible to do another one on sign offs. I have such a fascination with them. (Thank you Aspergers). Either that or more numbers stations. Also I will admit a lot of your recent videos are too esoteric for those without deeper knowledge of electronics like me. Still I watch.
I'm autistic and I seem to have fallen into all the stereotypes. There are plenty of good BBC etc closedown sequences on TV Ark. I also like trains. Mostly drawing them, but I still have a 1980s train magazine cover framed on my wall.
Some of the more technical things go over my head, but I genuinely enjoy watching them. I have been inspired to get my own thrift store VCR to tinker with!🙂
Considering that was the event that lead to the invention of the Tornado Emergency type Alert, I can't blame him for having to come up with a "Severe Tornado Warning" on the fly since....well what else would you call an event like what happened in Tulsa that night back then?
As the UK doesn’t really have an emergency broadcast system the scariest thing on British television is when the continuity announcer says “We’re sorry for interrupting this programme, we have an urgent newsflash” before immediately going to the newsroom.
Ireland had something similar on the 16th of October 2017. Programming just faded to black, followed by narration about new restrictions due to Storm/Hurricane Ophelia
Must've been very scary if you were living in Northern Ireland during the troubles, since you were most likely gonna be hearing a report about a bombing that may have been a few miles from the Viewer's doorstep. Of course, NI may have that same thing happen because of a certian PM...of course let's hope the British Army doesn't get involved..
The water alert: I can tell you in general what happened, based on what they said. One of four things happened: 1. The main pump station feeding that area failed, 2&3 The water main feeding it or leading away from it failed (and they were able to seal it), or 4, They caught some contaminants entering the system before they passed through the pump/filtration system and shut it down to keep it out of the water supply. At that point the only way to deliver water was to allow the high side reservoirs and water tanks to drain back into the system. That's why you didn't have boil water but did have no unnecessary use; they had limited supplies of water in the system available. Most water systems pump water uphill, and at the top of various sections of the system, have water tanks, reservoirs, and towers. Those towers tend to fill overnight as the pumps continue running, until they are turned to a lower pressure setting once the tanks are full (and there won't be enough pressure to 'push' anymore water into the storage). Once pressure starts dropping as morning usage begins, the pumps increase output until they reach their limit. In most systems that's not enough water flow to provide water to the entire system, so the water runs back out of the storage system to keep up the pressure and water flow, until people start going to bed when the storage refills and the process repeats. The very unobtrusive Japanese alerts might have been selected with some basis in science. Back in the 50s, the Air Force studied pilot's reactions to errors and warnings and such. They found that calm, soft delivery of messages are most 'attention grabbing'. I rode in a F-16D once (two seater) and also have 'flown' an official Simulator. You know the airbus and you've got that loud synth voice 'Terrain Ahead' WHOOP WHOOP 'Pull' (voice pitches up) 'UP!' that you can hear on any of the 'Miracle on the Hudson' recreations, like in 'Sully'? In the F-16 it's a dual chime like someone ringing a triangle, followed by a Alto woman's voice stating 'Altitude, Altitude' in a normal conversational voice. Also, in an Airforce plane you can acknowledge alarms and shut them up. There's been a time or two in civilian air accidents where the fact that they were being bombarded with a dozen warnings they couldn't shut off (Yes we know there's terrain, we know we should have more altitude, the engines are dead so that's problematic) caused the situation to get worse because either they missed some OTHER alarm or it just interfered with their concentration. Some think if Air France 447's systems had not reacted in quite so attention HEY HEY PANIC THE AUTOPILOT SHUT OFF it would not have crashed. (The pilot flying reacted by yanking the nose up, which when the autoflight systems recovered had the plane in a situation where the autoflight systems couldn't understand enough about what was going on to fly in full help mode and help recover the aircraft. If the pilot had kept it flying steady or even hadn't touched the stick the plane would never have crashed.) The FAA actually allows the ability for pilots to cancel alarms, but most of Europe doesn't so no commercial aircraft are made with that ability. Boeing aircraft are known for having more 'hey excuse me there's an issue you ought to look at, there's a mountain in front of us and we're set to fly right into it.' alarms rather than 'RED ALERT RED ALERT WE'RE OUT OF TOILET PAPER AND GOING TO DIE THIS IS NOT A DRILL' that are more Airbus like.
21:27 Amen to that. With the weather situation on 5/3/99, timely information from weather forecasters was ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL. The meteorologists on KFOR would have announced that particular warning. But, no. The police broke in and wasted 2.5 minutes.
Being a HoH individual who is fluent in American Sign Language (ASL) married to a Deaf indvidual, I wanted to clarify something that you mentioned on 23:34. The reason the text alert also had an ASL interpreter was because back 30 years ago, people who use ASL as their first language didn't necessarily know English. I assume this community had a high population of the Deaf population and this was the easiest way to get them informed. For generations the official language of Martha's Vineyard was sign language, for example. For the most part, in today's society the American Deaf population knows written English and can read and/or write it. This is why most television has phased out the interpreter and added Closed Captioning or Subtitles.
@@GeoNeilUK They differ greatly. BSL was home-grown by the British Deaf. ASL was borrowed from the French (LSF) and grew from there. Both Wiki articles are quite interesting, go into detail on how the languages flourished.
Had no idea that ASL was the official language of Martha's Vineyard, but given that New England is considered said language's birthplace, it would make sense, as does the reasoning for having an onscreen interpreter for WFSB's EBS test sequence...thanks for sharing!
@@ChuckD79 I was hoping more of the Deaf community would chime in but I guess Retro ephemera, including record ripoff, isn't something many Deafies tend to enjoy. ;)
When I was volunteering at a local college radio station one of my favorite tasks was when my show had a schuled EAS test. Turns out the equipment that runs FM radio EAS is a physical rackmount device that can remotely interrupt the brodcast via one of two AM carriers. Great video as usual.
hello ben! the israeli emergency broadcast from the gulf war instructed citizens to go into emergency rooms organized at homes, in which doors were blocked with wet rags against chemical warfare, and to put gas masks on
Another great episode...loved how the EAS "chirps" were short-circuited during the title for the international sequence, and I much prefer the non-obnoxious feel of Japan's system, not to mention the alert tone used by the Alberta EAS was rather odd in its alternating sequence of chirps and tones, and the Australian cyclone warning sound reminded me of a game show sound effect!
I'm surprised Ben didn't make a reference to Connelrad while covering New Zealand's Civil Defense system. CD on top of a triangle in a blue circle, it was really obvious. ... Maybe a bit too obvious, in hindsight.
Dave Porter also in Israel the warning system was initially started by the IDF (since they would have first knowledge of a foreign attack on Israeli soil) but afaik nowadays the tv networks have their own alerts that are far less unsettling (barely) for when Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad fires rockets into Southern Israel. While the new warning isn't unpleasent to hear, the fact you only have 15 seconds to take shelter from rocket fire completely overrides that.
I was really enjoying that SCTV commercial....UNTIL IT WAS SO RUUUDELY INTERRUPTED. I remember watching the Yukon, OK access alert about a month ago thinking, "What the hell is that tone?" I'll probably rewatch this tomorrow night. What a life I lead since I turned twenty-four. P.s. I see you found your bucket.
23:33 "Isn't the sign language just a tad redundant?". A lot of people who have always been deaf can understand sign language much faster than they can read text, and may be rather slow at reading because it basically encodes sounds that are an abstract concept to them. This isn't immediately obvious, and was pointed out to me by someone who worked with deaf people. BTW, love this episode - I love the odd breaks in programmes for warnings or technical difficulties you otherwise wouldn't get to see.
12:06 - *EMERGENCY. EMERGENCY. HOT SAVINGS DETECTED. UP TO 30% ON ALL USED CARS. COME ON DOWN.* 13:40 - Someone logged off during a Skrillex concert? 14:29 - _THIS IS THE VOICE OF THE MYSTERONS. YOU WILL ASSUME THE FETAL POSITION UNDERNEATH A STURDY OBJECT, DOOR-FRAME, OR OVERTURNED BATHTUB._
That Japanese warning is different than the one I have saved; floating around on one of my spare drives, I have an episode of an anime series that had a Japanese weather bulletin running along the top of the screen (Sadly, not translated; only the show's dialog was subtitled). I recall it using a different sound, so it may have been from a more local weather department to where the channel was located.
These are "lesser" warnings for more local events or events that have no immediate consequence for your current location. They can range from minor earthquakes in neighboring prefectures, to heavy rain, to strong wind, and often connected to one of the dozens of typhoons that make landfall every year. And they are also often inserted a second time, as an all-clear message when the event is over. I cannot provide hard facts on it, but I am pretty sure they are not part of the "J-Alert" system but inserted across the TV channels by the local cable TV provider. They are inserted at the top of the screen and accompanied by distinct but not alarming chimes. Case in point: Weirdly (Japan is weird, news at eleven) I have also witnessed these inserts for rather trivial things, for example when a national celebrity died. They are clearly less of an emergency warning but rather a quick "take note" pointer. And if you have lived in Japan for a period of time you are pretty used to them, in typhoon season you get them every day, multiple times. My fiancée sometimes doesn't even notice them anymore.
@@drmr4613 Once a station put up a telop to notify viewers that a popular anime franchise's movie had become the highest-grossing movie of all time in Japan
Here in Honolulu about 6 months ago everyone on oahu woke up to “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.” Went outside and people were screaming and calling their families, and people were stuffing their kids in storm drains. My landlord was like "If we die we die!" and then his wife made him drive to a shelter (Wal-Mart). I just sat at my computer googling, trying to find out what was happening while crapping my pants. I mean, it wasn't any "your water is fine but don't flush the toilet," but I would have at least thrown in a mention.
I was looking for this dude for 2 years, I saw him once when I was visiting my grandparents but then he dropped off the face of the Earth. Good to have you back man! I missed you.
@@OddityArchive daaamn. You really gotta make a tutorial on that kind of shit if you've no other material to make an episode about (unless you already did in an episode or something like the microbroadcasting one.)
20:26 To be fair, that was during the Bridge Creek/Moore tornado which was absolutely massive, so severe tornado warning does make sense That DOES make it worse that they wasted so much time trying to get the alert screen off though
Wow...Someone close to me used to live in Yukon (wasn't there for May 3rd, though they still lived close) and facepalmed so hard at that warning. Especially as there was *A* storm system later in the evening that almost hit Yukon (they were spared but the storm eventually made a stronger tornado that hit Mulhall OK later that night). May 3rd was definitely a day one wanted as much information as possible!
EMERGENCY BROAD CAST Thıs ınstutectıons wıll keep ur famıly and you safe. 1-Do not look at the moon ever 2-lock all the wındows and doors 3-do not lısten to people say look at the moon 4-DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON OR SUN 5-get away from the lıght (700-300m) by the sun 6-get away from the lıght (500-800m) by the moon 7-cover all the wındows 8-close the lıghts and keep urself ın the basement or a shelter 9-ıf you look at the moon/sun u wıll melt ın about 1 mınıtue 3 seconds 10-DO not use any mobıle devıces put a TV to basement / shelter and waıt for new ınstrutectıons. Please lısten us and be safe ıf all-clear ıs gıven waıt for rescue teams to fınd you.
I grew up, and still live in the Detroit area, and I seem to remember an interruption on our cable system in the late 90s, for a tornado warning, and the audio came from radio station WJR, which would make sense, considering that they were the emergency broadcast system’s originating station in the Detroit area.
It would have been really cool if you found more of those sing-song EBS's just for the possibility of the brief history lesson alone, but you did mention it in a commentary for the first volume, plus its audio got copyright claimed. I still get a kick out of the "And other authorities" part, and there were two versions of that: one spoken by a female, and another as a robotic talk box.
I gotta get on asking some family members if I can transfer some of their taped content so I can get some of the EBS missteps recorded around the late 1970s/early 1980s.
For the UK, the closest we've got to Civil Defence Broadcasting happened maybe two or three occasions to my knowledge. The death of Princess Diana The resignation of Gordon Brown as Prime Minister The death of Nelson Mandela What tends to happen over here is the BBC interrupt at least BBC 1 and cross over to BBC News. Princess Diana's death was probably the most Civil Defence-y of thenm all. Both BBC1 and BBC 2 went over to a special BBC News programme, I think ITV did the same (excpet they crossed over to ITN rather than the BBC) several other TV stations just went off air. BBC1 and BBC2 actually stopped referring to themselves by their usual channel names and became simply "The BBC from London" As for radio, I'm assuming that the BBC radio stations crossed over to either BBC Radio 4 or the BBC World Service, while the ILR (independent local radio stations) crossed over to a service from IRN (Independent Radio News) which consisted of bulletins and Muzak. With the other two, I think just BBC1 were affected, Gordon Brown's resignation caused particular upset as the BBC pre-empted popular soap opera (though I guess Americans would probably call it a slice of life drama) EastEnders. Other than that, our weather warnings just appear in the usual weather forecast designated by a yellow wrning or an amber warning (don't think we've ever had a red warning)
interrupting eastenders its almost like interrupting the archers in that its a public service. Also, i think there should be a new one whenever the queen decides she's had it
@@kstxevolution9642 "interrupting eastenders its almost like interrupting the archers in that its a public service." Not really a public service, more like an extremely popular TV programme. They actually broke into The One Show and were still going on about it when EastEnders was supposed to start. When Nelson Mandela died, they broke into Mrs Brown's Boys to go directly over the South African president whose name I've forgotten. "Also, i think there should be a new one whenever the queen decides she's had it" Apparently we're supposed to have 14 days of mourning. If they actually do drag it out that long, we might just become a republic.
To be fair, I'd say that another match we had would be the HANDEL system. HANDEL, installed in the 60s, was the system over which the "four minute warning" would be given. It was the little grey box that sat in the corner of every police station, beeping quietly to itself to let the operators know it was still working. If a strike was expected, RAF High Wycombe would send a message across the frequencies normally used by the speaking clock (which they used to both cut costs and also ensure that the lines were more or less constantly being tested) - a "warbling note" followed by the message "Attack warning red" and the control signal to activate the electronic sirens. The attack warning message was supposed to be relayed to all television and radio stations, from an emergency studio in the BBC's Broadcasting House (This is the BBC, from London..."). There were also other flavours of attack warning - Grey and Black were fallout warnings and White was the all clear. The script of the warning was read by BBC continuity announcer Peter Donaldson and can be found online. If I had to play critic, I'd say that including the line "Remember, there is nothing to be gained by trying to get away." was a slightly-less-than-stellar idea. It's also said that one of the key tests that submarine commanders trying to determine if Britain still exists would use is checking if 'Today' was still airing on Radio 4. In typically British fashion, the RAF and the Home Office had numerous arguments over who was responsible for the system - or, more accurately, who would be blamed if there was an undetected attack. Related to the Obit alarm procedures you mentioned, I remember reading an article somewhere written by the man who was in charge of one of the BBC stations (I think it might have been Radio 2) and the nightmare he had in finding music that was inoffensive enough to air. The whole thing is strangely stuck in the 50s - I find it oddly pleasing that our nation considers the death of one of the reigning monarch's family worthy of as much alarm as imminent thermonuclear extermination.
Also, for those who are wondering what the opening music is, it's "The Mad Hatters Ball" composed by Syd Dale. It's from the KPM library (specifically album #1049, "Chorus and Orchestra," released in 1969).
16:14 OMG that is the BEST! Some sticks on the ground and an open window is the best they could come up with for this! Either they were too lazy to actually cover it, or they just made up the whole attack. Hilarious!
And as I pointed out on the original upload of the KETV test which used the infamous "Easter Egg" slide, my first thought was that said graphic was just being used as a placeholder for an audio-only EBS test, as others had done...imagine my surprise to find out it was the real deal!
There was a color version of that I saw on a station in Iron Mountain, Michigan. The background was white, the "eggs" were black, and the letters, which were in the exact same font as the black-and-white, were red, green, and blue.
Now we need a sub-episode: the amber alert and its scary siren synth noise. Anyone remember those? Now THAT is a crap yourself moment when you hear an amber alert
It was 3am I was asleep and woke up to a EAS test and I was scared out of my mind cus I was 10 and turns out my little brother left the TV on and from then on I never kept the TV on past 1 or 2 am so yea that kinda scarred me lol
19:55 Every time I see this clip it gives me a weird feeling, especially because St. Joseph, MO is my hometown and I've seen that alert in action. It was changed/updated in around 2004.
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Another thing: you know the 7:15 warning in 2 languages? If you listen that audio on headphones or on attached speakers you can listen the Japanese message on one side and the English message on the other. Real stereo cast here...
Around 2006 a Quad Cities car dealership broadcasted a false alarm signal so viewers can see their amazing deals. That was not cool! I hope the FCC made them stop.
we have some sort of civil defence broadcast in Ireland, but it's only been activated once as far as I know. It's just a small bar of plain text with no noise accompanying it
157 episodes later, and I still don't know who made the damn egg salad sandwiches...
Buddy, that's SCTV from 1981.. It's been 37 years and no one knows who made the damn egg salad sandwiches.
@@stargazer79 woosh
ua-cam.com/video/NMjtvSABQ3Q/v-deo.html - John Candy in an obvious fake moustache.
I'm willing to bet that Techmoan has an "egg salad sandwich maker" at home.
Have you thought the cook of the egg salad sandwiches could have been Paul Avery?
0:47 This station will now start airing links to Bonzi Buddy downloads for your local area. Please stand by.
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It’s the vegetal voice
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If you ever go a Volume 3, you should do the humorous ones that the FCC eventually cracked down on.
To date, I've only seen (er, heard) three of them (at one minute apiece). One was used for end credits music in vol. 1.
@@OddityArchive I am now curious about those. You have links?
ChrisKewl just search “ebs jingle” and you’ll find one of them
One detail about Emergency broadcasting in Canada the emergency public warning system (the red circle with a yellow lightning bolt) was only used in the province of Alberta. The rest of Canada wouldn’t get a standard for emergency broadcast until the implementation of Alerts Ready in 2015
Alberta was a revolutionary province.
Cool fact!
No we used to get that from Buffalo stations. It was HORRIFYING
Australia's alert tone is just like the joke about the continent, *everything* is trying to kill you.
Canada's Alert Ready sounds like a McDonald's Kitchen
Both australias and new Zealands eas sound funky
Nothing to bomb In Aussie land, except American military installation....crikey, stock up on Vegemite, Foster's and didgeridoos.....g'day mate !
lol as an Australian i can verify and say that it is true
This is more of a severe weather warning, but it does fit into the Emergency Broadcast topic. During the mid 90s, KELO-TV used to have a really scary sounding Tornado Warning break-in if the need arose. It had a very loud tornado-siren like noise that really got your attention, and as a kid, freaked me out. The only footage that I have of it is from a KELO-TV 50th Anniversary special from 2003 where it was briefly shown during a segment regarding their weather coverage, though it's partially covered up by narration.
EncoreEnterprisesLLC are you referring to the one that had the voiceover message that included something about alerting your deaf or hard of hearing neighbors? I’d love to see a video of that one again sometime. If that’s the one you’re referring too, do you have the video from that 2003 special and is it currently uploaded?
@@dustingettman95 I have not digitized that KELO 50th Anniversary special yet, and it will be a while before I can. It's currently in storage about a four hour drive away from my current residence and I'm also seeking out a better way to transfer VHS content to my PC. I have an ancient Dazzle DVC100 (a thrift store find) that doesn't play nice with modern video editing software. As for the slide itself, I can't recall the meteorologist telling people to alert their deaf neighbors, but since I was a kid, there's a chance I simply missed that part. The slide itself did state in all caps "ALERT YOUR DEAF NEIGHBOR" in the lower left corner.
EncoreEnterprisesLLC i don’t know anything about video editing software, but getting something from VHS to DVD to then just copy onto your computer should be the easy part. Two and a half years ago I bought something like this, this might be the same model, at Walmart for around $200 instead of the $600 they’re asking for now www.walmart.com/ip/Sanyo-DVD-Recorder-VCR-Combo/44465826. At the time they were still kept in stock in stores but they must not make them anymore because it looks like they only have one left in their warehouse now so they must be pricing it based on supply and demand. But the link itself has other similar products suggested that are cheaper. Either way the digitization seems like it would be easier than with that Dazzle DVC 100.
@@RetroDakota you might want to look for a composite/rf dvr box for your computer depending on what av out your vcr uses
Just listened to it on your upload of the anniversary special and WOW, that's a pants-filler.
Something interesting to make a note of at 5:58.
Japan, aside from the Richter scale, has another scale for earthquakes, that range from 1 to 7, called the Shindou scale. That musical tone is something you do NOT want to hear, because that means that there has been detections of, if I recall correctly, intensity 5-Lower. (Yes, intensity 5 and 6 are split into two ratings, lower and higher.) And basically, this means there's going to be a TON of rattling. And given that this particular clip was from the 3/11/11 earthquake... yeah.
And a couple of regions hit Shindou 7 later on...
Pun i saw one earlier today from 2016 where a news anchor yelled something along the lines of: REMEMBER THE GREAT EASTERN EARTHQUAKE! PROTECT YOURSELVES! EVACUATE IMME-“ it was a 5- lower earthquake, that issued a tsunami warning
@@Hamildork Fukushima on November 22 japan time. Doing a project on it for school atm
@wrong No, *you* are wrong.
I _know_ it said there was an ice cream truck . You are still @wrong.
Is it even possible to do another one on sign offs. I have such a fascination with them. (Thank you Aspergers).
Either that or more numbers stations.
Also I will admit a lot of your recent videos are too esoteric for those without deeper knowledge of electronics like me. Still I watch.
@Sean Wilkinson I actually enjoy the slightly muffled audio and fuzzy picture of sign off recordings. Gives warmth.
We need more signoffs!
I'm autistic and I seem to have fallen into all the stereotypes. There are plenty of good BBC etc closedown sequences on TV Ark.
I also like trains. Mostly drawing them, but I still have a 1980s train magazine cover framed on my wall.
Some of the more technical things go over my head, but I genuinely enjoy watching them. I have been inspired to get my own thrift store VCR to tinker with!🙂
13:39 Severe Dubstep Warning
So this is what is really causing all of them damn quakes? My goodness...
complete with windows 7 logoff sound
Ah yes..
Dubstep TW's (Trigger Warnings)
At 20:26, the announcer was about to say "severe thunderstorm warning" before correcting himself, hence why he said "severe... tornado warning".
Considering that was the event that lead to the invention of the Tornado Emergency type Alert, I can't blame him for having to come up with a "Severe Tornado Warning" on the fly since....well what else would you call an event like what happened in Tulsa that night back then?
As the UK doesn’t really have an emergency broadcast system the scariest thing on British television is when the continuity announcer says “We’re sorry for interrupting this programme, we have an urgent newsflash” before immediately going to the newsroom.
Ireland had something similar on the 16th of October 2017. Programming just faded to black, followed by narration about new restrictions due to Storm/Hurricane Ophelia
Must've been very scary if you were living in Northern Ireland during the troubles, since you were most likely gonna be hearing a report about a bombing that may have been a few miles from the Viewer's doorstep. Of course, NI may have that same thing happen because of a certian PM...of course let's hope the British Army doesn't get involved..
"This is the BBC from London"
The water alert: I can tell you in general what happened, based on what they said. One of four things happened: 1. The main pump station feeding that area failed, 2&3 The water main feeding it or leading away from it failed (and they were able to seal it), or 4, They caught some contaminants entering the system before they passed through the pump/filtration system and shut it down to keep it out of the water supply. At that point the only way to deliver water was to allow the high side reservoirs and water tanks to drain back into the system. That's why you didn't have boil water but did have no unnecessary use; they had limited supplies of water in the system available.
Most water systems pump water uphill, and at the top of various sections of the system, have water tanks, reservoirs, and towers. Those towers tend to fill overnight as the pumps continue running, until they are turned to a lower pressure setting once the tanks are full (and there won't be enough pressure to 'push' anymore water into the storage). Once pressure starts dropping as morning usage begins, the pumps increase output until they reach their limit. In most systems that's not enough water flow to provide water to the entire system, so the water runs back out of the storage system to keep up the pressure and water flow, until people start going to bed when the storage refills and the process repeats.
The very unobtrusive Japanese alerts might have been selected with some basis in science. Back in the 50s, the Air Force studied pilot's reactions to errors and warnings and such. They found that calm, soft delivery of messages are most 'attention grabbing'. I rode in a F-16D once (two seater) and also have 'flown' an official Simulator. You know the airbus and you've got that loud synth voice 'Terrain Ahead' WHOOP WHOOP 'Pull' (voice pitches up) 'UP!' that you can hear on any of the 'Miracle on the Hudson' recreations, like in 'Sully'? In the F-16 it's a dual chime like someone ringing a triangle, followed by a Alto woman's voice stating 'Altitude, Altitude' in a normal conversational voice. Also, in an Airforce plane you can acknowledge alarms and shut them up. There's been a time or two in civilian air accidents where the fact that they were being bombarded with a dozen warnings they couldn't shut off (Yes we know there's terrain, we know we should have more altitude, the engines are dead so that's problematic) caused the situation to get worse because either they missed some OTHER alarm or it just interfered with their concentration. Some think if Air France 447's systems had not reacted in quite so attention HEY HEY PANIC THE AUTOPILOT SHUT OFF it would not have crashed. (The pilot flying reacted by yanking the nose up, which when the autoflight systems recovered had the plane in a situation where the autoflight systems couldn't understand enough about what was going on to fly in full help mode and help recover the aircraft. If the pilot had kept it flying steady or even hadn't touched the stick the plane would never have crashed.)
The FAA actually allows the ability for pilots to cancel alarms, but most of Europe doesn't so no commercial aircraft are made with that ability. Boeing aircraft are known for having more 'hey excuse me there's an issue you ought to look at, there's a mountain in front of us and we're set to fly right into it.' alarms rather than 'RED ALERT RED ALERT WE'RE OUT OF TOILET PAPER AND GOING TO DIE THIS IS NOT A DRILL' that are more Airbus like.
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Petition to make all emergency alerts have the bonzi buddy-esque voice instead of the usual creepy robot voice they use.
Eh. I think the Siri from the iPhones would make an even better EAS voice.
21:27 Amen to that. With the weather situation on 5/3/99, timely information from weather forecasters was ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL. The meteorologists on KFOR would have announced that particular warning. But, no. The police broke in and wasted 2.5 minutes.
To quote Joe Buck, "That's your tax dollars and your hard earned money hard at work!"
All thanks to somebody who probably got fried for not knowing you're supposed to dial out and not hang up when using a cable override system.
Being a HoH individual who is fluent in American Sign Language (ASL) married to a Deaf indvidual, I wanted to clarify something that you mentioned on 23:34. The reason the text alert also had an ASL interpreter was because back 30 years ago, people who use ASL as their first language didn't necessarily know English. I assume this community had a high population of the Deaf population and this was the easiest way to get them informed. For generations the official language of Martha's Vineyard was sign language, for example.
For the most part, in today's society the American Deaf population knows written English and can read and/or write it. This is why most television has phased out the interpreter and added Closed Captioning or Subtitles.
Just out of interest, how does ASL differ from BSL and have you encountered BSL anywhere?
I grew up with deaf friends, and illiteracy was a huge problem. Now with CC and text messaging, it’s almost nonexistent.
@@GeoNeilUK They differ greatly. BSL was home-grown by the British Deaf. ASL was borrowed from the French (LSF) and grew from there. Both Wiki articles are quite interesting, go into detail on how the languages flourished.
Had no idea that ASL was the official language of Martha's Vineyard, but given that New England is considered said language's birthplace, it would make sense, as does the reasoning for having an onscreen interpreter for WFSB's EBS test sequence...thanks for sharing!
@@ChuckD79 I was hoping more of the Deaf community would chime in but I guess Retro ephemera, including record ripoff, isn't something many Deafies tend to enjoy. ;)
"The Police have left the area because of the heavy damage." Dammit Sting get back here, you coward!
They've just popped to the music store because Stewart Copeland broke a drum skin.
IT'S STIIIII- oops, wrong Sting.
Are you using bonzi buddy for text to speech
Sounds like he needs a date night with helium Helgi. Lol
no, that's Strawberry Clock!
I can only think of that as the voice of Spodermen.
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The 'BBS' lol
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The Oddity Archive: come for the emergency alerts, stay for the retro A/V tech.
When I was volunteering at a local college radio station one of my favorite tasks was when my show had a schuled EAS test. Turns out the equipment that runs FM radio EAS is a physical rackmount device that can remotely interrupt the brodcast via one of two AM carriers.
Great video as usual.
Paul Kastner I had one of those in my college radio station, too.
I wonder how this would work in my school's radio station... where I live there is no EAS
hello ben! the israeli emergency broadcast from the gulf war instructed citizens to go into emergency rooms organized at homes, in which doors were blocked with wet rags against chemical warfare, and to put gas masks on
Another great episode...loved how the EAS "chirps" were short-circuited during the title for the international sequence, and I much prefer the non-obnoxious feel of Japan's system, not to mention the alert tone used by the Alberta EAS was rather odd in its alternating sequence of chirps and tones, and the Australian cyclone warning sound reminded me of a game show sound effect!
I'm surprised Ben didn't make a reference to Connelrad while covering New Zealand's Civil Defense system. CD on top of a triangle in a blue circle, it was really obvious.
... Maybe a bit too obvious, in hindsight.
I'm gonna point out here, just in the sense of education, that it's actually spelled CONELRAD, not "connelrad." :)
The Israel broadcast is indeed from the old Israeli Broadcast Authority, which was their state broadcaster until the early 2010s
Dave Porter also in Israel the warning system was initially started by the IDF (since they would have first knowledge of a foreign attack on Israeli soil) but afaik nowadays the tv networks have their own alerts that are far less unsettling (barely) for when Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad fires rockets into Southern Israel. While the new warning isn't unpleasent to hear, the fact you only have 15 seconds to take shelter from rocket fire completely overrides that.
That ending sound like what would happen if death grips made there own warning
This is an Emergency Action Notification: I FUCK THE MUSIC, I MAKE IT CUM
"We interrupt this program to alert to you that I'M IN YOUR AREA"
Your area is under a severe GUILLOTINE warning. IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES from 3:38PM to 4:00PM.
we interrupt your broadcasting to warn you there are SPIKES SPIKES SPIKES SPIKES SPIKES
The National Weather Service has detected an INANIMATE SENSATION.
I was really enjoying that SCTV commercial....UNTIL IT WAS SO RUUUDELY INTERRUPTED. I remember watching the Yukon, OK access alert about a month ago thinking, "What the hell is that tone?"
I'll probably rewatch this tomorrow night. What a life I lead since I turned twenty-four.
P.s. I see you found your bucket.
23:33 "Isn't the sign language just a tad redundant?". A lot of people who have always been deaf can understand sign language much faster than they can read text, and may be rather slow at reading because it basically encodes sounds that are an abstract concept to them. This isn't immediately obvious, and was pointed out to me by someone who worked with deaf people.
BTW, love this episode - I love the odd breaks in programmes for warnings or technical difficulties you otherwise wouldn't get to see.
The SEWS alert sounds a lot like one you'd hear when a spaceship gets hit in a sci-fi show or movie.
12:06 - *EMERGENCY. EMERGENCY. HOT SAVINGS DETECTED. UP TO 30% ON ALL USED CARS. COME ON DOWN.*
13:40 - Someone logged off during a Skrillex concert?
14:29 - _THIS IS THE VOICE OF THE MYSTERONS. YOU WILL ASSUME THE FETAL POSITION UNDERNEATH A STURDY OBJECT, DOOR-FRAME, OR OVERTURNED BATHTUB._
12:06 COME ON DOWN TO KUNKLEMAN CHEVROLET, WHERE EVERYONE'S APPROVED!
That Japanese warning is different than the one I have saved; floating around on one of my spare drives, I have an episode of an anime series that had a Japanese weather bulletin running along the top of the screen (Sadly, not translated; only the show's dialog was subtitled). I recall it using a different sound, so it may have been from a more local weather department to where the channel was located.
Kinda curious- what anime was it?
@@caesarorzell600 presumably tentacle porn
Was it Acchi Kocchi? I remember something similar floating around on one of the episodes when it was still up on UA-cam
These are "lesser" warnings for more local events or events that have no immediate consequence for your current location. They can range from minor earthquakes in neighboring prefectures, to heavy rain, to strong wind, and often connected to one of the dozens of typhoons that make landfall every year. And they are also often inserted a second time, as an all-clear message when the event is over.
I cannot provide hard facts on it, but I am pretty sure they are not part of the "J-Alert" system but inserted across the TV channels by the local cable TV provider. They are inserted at the top of the screen and accompanied by distinct but not alarming chimes.
Case in point: Weirdly (Japan is weird, news at eleven) I have also witnessed these inserts for rather trivial things, for example when a national celebrity died. They are clearly less of an emergency warning but rather a quick "take note" pointer.
And if you have lived in Japan for a period of time you are pretty used to them, in typhoon season you get them every day, multiple times. My fiancée sometimes doesn't even notice them anymore.
@@drmr4613 Once a station put up a telop to notify viewers that a popular anime franchise's movie had become the highest-grossing movie of all time in Japan
But seriously, who made the egg salad sandwiches?
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Oddity Archive has the most Episodes That Terrify My Cats of any show.
Here in Honolulu about 6 months ago everyone on oahu woke up to “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.” Went outside and people were screaming and calling their families, and people were stuffing their kids in storm drains. My landlord was like "If we die we die!" and then his wife made him drive to a shelter (Wal-Mart). I just sat at my computer googling, trying to find out what was happening while crapping my pants. I mean, it wasn't any "your water is fine but don't flush the toilet," but I would have at least thrown in a mention.
I was looking for this dude for 2 years, I saw him once when I was visiting my grandparents but then he dropped off the face of the Earth.
Good to have you back man! I missed you.
Damn, the VHS effects are top tier as hell
I'd hope so. It's all real VHS (in EP mode)! :D
@@OddityArchive daaamn. You really gotta make a tutorial on that kind of shit if you've no other material to make an episode about (unless you already did in an episode or something like the microbroadcasting one.)
As an ‘80s/‘90s kid, I can tell it’s real. The VHS filter on other videos is so obviously not.
@@OddityArchive Do you use DVDs and dub them to a VHS tape with a VCR/DVD combo or is there another way?
404's VHS Collection no I think he uses an adapter to change hdmi to composite and record it that way
24:03 Napoleon Dynamite: The College Years
Geez, dude, button your shirt! What is this, Weathercasters Gone Wild...?!
Remember to Vote for Pedro!
Wow. You're bringing this back?
Brings so many good memories with the show...
(For us, the viewers, at least.)
20:26 To be fair, that was during the Bridge Creek/Moore tornado which was absolutely massive, so severe tornado warning does make sense
That DOES make it worse that they wasted so much time trying to get the alert screen off though
Wow...Someone close to me used to live in Yukon (wasn't there for May 3rd, though they still lived close) and facepalmed so hard at that warning. Especially as there was *A* storm system later in the evening that almost hit Yukon (they were spared but the storm eventually made a stronger tornado that hit Mulhall OK later that night). May 3rd was definitely a day one wanted as much information as possible!
I bet the guy operating the emergency override system that night was promptly shown the door.
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Aaaaaaahhhhh!!!!! A green bonzi buddy! 😱
Oh my goodness!!!! Ben!!! I LOVED the emergency broadcast salute!!! Thanks for doing another one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE IT!! You are awesome!
EMERGENCY BROAD CAST
Thıs ınstutectıons wıll keep ur famıly and you safe.
1-Do not look at the moon ever
2-lock all the wındows and doors
3-do not lısten to people say look at the moon
4-DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON OR SUN
5-get away from the lıght (700-300m) by the sun
6-get away from the lıght (500-800m) by the moon
7-cover all the wındows
8-close the lıghts and keep urself ın the basement or a shelter
9-ıf you look at the moon/sun u wıll melt ın about 1 mınıtue 3 seconds
10-DO not use any mobıle devıces put a TV to basement / shelter and waıt for new ınstrutectıons.
Please lısten us
and be safe
ıf all-clear ıs gıven waıt for rescue teams to fınd you.
Weirdly, I almost got more freaked out by the phone-off-the-hook sound than the alert klaxons. I don't know why that sound has always scared me.
I grew up, and still live in the Detroit area, and I seem to remember an interruption on our cable system in the late 90s, for a tornado warning, and the audio came from radio station WJR, which would make sense, considering that they were the emergency broadcast system’s originating station in the Detroit area.
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It would have been really cool if you found more of those sing-song EBS's just for the possibility of the brief history lesson alone, but you did mention it in a commentary for the first volume, plus its audio got copyright claimed. I still get a kick out of the "And other authorities" part, and there were two versions of that: one spoken by a female, and another as a robotic talk box.
The first one=Bonzi Buddy Broadcasting System,aka the 'BBBS'
I gotta get on asking some family members if I can transfer some of their taped content so I can get some of the EBS missteps recorded around the late 1970s/early 1980s.
That Oaklahoma one was hilarious wtf where the people thinking?!?!
For the UK, the closest we've got to Civil Defence Broadcasting happened maybe two or three occasions to my knowledge.
The death of Princess Diana
The resignation of Gordon Brown as Prime Minister
The death of Nelson Mandela
What tends to happen over here is the BBC interrupt at least BBC 1 and cross over to BBC News.
Princess Diana's death was probably the most Civil Defence-y of thenm all. Both BBC1 and BBC 2 went over to a special BBC News programme, I think ITV did the same (excpet they crossed over to ITN rather than the BBC) several other TV stations just went off air. BBC1 and BBC2 actually stopped referring to themselves by their usual channel names and became simply "The BBC from London"
As for radio, I'm assuming that the BBC radio stations crossed over to either BBC Radio 4 or the BBC World Service, while the ILR (independent local radio stations) crossed over to a service from IRN (Independent Radio News) which consisted of bulletins and Muzak.
With the other two, I think just BBC1 were affected, Gordon Brown's resignation caused particular upset as the BBC pre-empted popular soap opera (though I guess Americans would probably call it a slice of life drama) EastEnders.
Other than that, our weather warnings just appear in the usual weather forecast designated by a yellow wrning or an amber warning (don't think we've ever had a red warning)
interrupting eastenders its almost like interrupting the archers in that its a public service. Also, i think there should be a new one whenever the queen decides she's had it
@@kstxevolution9642 "interrupting eastenders its almost like interrupting the archers in that its a public service."
Not really a public service, more like an extremely popular TV programme. They actually broke into The One Show and were still going on about it when EastEnders was supposed to start.
When Nelson Mandela died, they broke into Mrs Brown's Boys to go directly over the South African president whose name I've forgotten.
"Also, i think there should be a new one whenever the queen decides she's had it"
Apparently we're supposed to have 14 days of mourning. If they actually do drag it out that long, we might just become a republic.
To be fair, I'd say that another match we had would be the HANDEL system.
HANDEL, installed in the 60s, was the system over which the "four minute warning" would be given. It was the little grey box that sat in the corner of every police station, beeping quietly to itself to let the operators know it was still working. If a strike was expected, RAF High Wycombe would send a message across the frequencies normally used by the speaking clock (which they used to both cut costs and also ensure that the lines were more or less constantly being tested) - a "warbling note" followed by the message "Attack warning red" and the control signal to activate the electronic sirens. The attack warning message was supposed to be relayed to all television and radio stations, from an emergency studio in the BBC's Broadcasting House (This is the BBC, from London..."). There were also other flavours of attack warning - Grey and Black were fallout warnings and White was the all clear.
The script of the warning was read by BBC continuity announcer Peter Donaldson and can be found online. If I had to play critic, I'd say that including the line "Remember, there is nothing to be gained by trying to get away." was a slightly-less-than-stellar idea. It's also said that one of the key tests that submarine commanders trying to determine if Britain still exists would use is checking if 'Today' was still airing on Radio 4.
In typically British fashion, the RAF and the Home Office had numerous arguments over who was responsible for the system - or, more accurately, who would be blamed if there was an undetected attack.
Related to the Obit alarm procedures you mentioned, I remember reading an article somewhere written by the man who was in charge of one of the BBC stations (I think it might have been Radio 2) and the nightmare he had in finding music that was inoffensive enough to air. The whole thing is strangely stuck in the 50s - I find it oddly pleasing that our nation considers the death of one of the reigning monarch's family worthy of as much alarm as imminent thermonuclear extermination.
"NOTE #2: Methinks the Emergency Broadcast Demon has sustained a head injury or ten in the last few years."
Ah, yes! Back to the kind of things that first drew me to the Oddity Archive.
I can’t take this seriously because it uses the FUCKING BONZI BUDDY VOICE
Is Japan really using RTTY for their alerts..? RTTY over all other sounds produced ever
I guess they're using RTTY in lieu of the US SAME header system.
Nodoka Hanamura now that you’ve said it, that makes more sense
Also, for those who are wondering what the opening music is, it's "The Mad Hatters Ball" composed by Syd Dale. It's from the KPM library (specifically album #1049, "Chorus and Orchestra," released in 1969).
16:14 OMG that is the BEST! Some sticks on the ground and an open window is the best they could come up with for this! Either they were too lazy to actually cover it, or they just made up the whole attack. Hilarious!
Bonzi buddy is here to tell you that shit has indeed hit the fan
hilarious opening!
05:56 and there is the longer version, used in the death annoucement of Emperor Hirohito/Showa, in late 89: ua-cam.com/video/tDJ-U2J_PQo/v-deo.html
Your reference to the change in title sequence has my Senses Working Overtime!
Is it just me or is the theme song a bit different? I haven't watched this show in a while, so i don't now if it's been changed or not.
And as I pointed out on the original upload of the KETV test which used the infamous "Easter Egg" slide, my first thought was that said graphic was just being used as a placeholder for an audio-only EBS test, as others had done...imagine my surprise to find out it was the real deal!
There was a color version of that I saw on a station in Iron Mountain, Michigan. The background was white, the "eggs" were black, and the letters, which were in the exact same font as the black-and-white, were red, green, and blue.
11:23 Somebody tell the kids who run "EAS alarm" channels that they're called "tones" or "warning signals"
Now I know where AT88 for his EAS tomes from.
The New Zealand earthquake drill sounds like Skrillex.
Emergency Alert System
21:43 Pretty short test! The guy doing the voiceover also sounds like he popped a Xanax.
If I may criticise. The US pronunciation of "Saudi" is even more wrong than the European one. "Sah'oodi" is the right way. Not "sordy"
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Caution, a virus has been detected.
Now we need a sub-episode: the amber alert and its scary siren synth noise. Anyone remember those? Now THAT is a crap yourself moment when you hear an amber alert
I love the J Alert system. We need it here.
*tHe DePaRtMeNt Of DuTy iN wAsHiNgToN, d.C.*
Imagine hearing that the world will end from bonzai buddy?
Enviroment Canada should have taken a page from their southern neighbors National Weather Service.
And we still don't know who made the egg salad sandwiches.
Hmph! Like we're ever going to have some nation-wide cataclysmic event...
It was 3am I was asleep and woke up to a EAS test and I was scared out of my mind cus I was 10 and turns out my little brother left the TV on and from then on I never kept the TV on past 1 or 2 am so yea that kinda scarred me lol
Don't know if this has already been mentioned, but 6:48 is NOT the earthquake warning. It's the tsunami warning.
Exactly
Aww...No IDEA/ONICS CG-1000 EAS (aka "red screen") alerts?!?
For shame!
Emergency broadcasting is what I came for, I can tell you that. This was a particularly good one.
Damn is Bonzi Buddy the EBS announcer?
19:55 Every time I see this clip it gives me a weird feeling, especially because St. Joseph, MO is my hometown and I've seen that alert in action. It was changed/updated in around 2004.
I saw a later video where they changed it to two different slides (in other words - it became fancier)
Who tf would use this kind of tts
So, how do I send you the british nuclear attack stuff? It's frightening!
That clip is terrifying, I'm so glad it has never needed to be used
Screw going to bed! time for the archive, nice to see you revisit what got me and brobably alot basicly everyone else to your channel
Where are you from?
my first video was 1-900 archive
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Ah.
Funny, being I work an overnight shift on weekends, that's my preferred viewing time as well! LOL
I’m really excited to watch this! The original EAS salute is my favorite archive episode.
bonzi buddy hahahahaha
Liked the ending part withe the 70s cast. ..that teledac teletext with the blinking cursor of juste writen text lol
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I liked that laserdisc joke at the beginning
Hey! KETV is my local ABC Affelite! I pearked up when I heard that!
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Another thing: you know the 7:15 warning in 2 languages? If you listen that audio on headphones or on attached speakers you can listen the Japanese message on one side and the English message on the other. Real stereo cast here...
Very cool that you found a warning from Israel! I spent a week there in 2012, so it was really cool to see that.
0:57 You missed the chance to say "registration card". Bonzi Buddy asks you to fill out a registration card when you first open the program.
The J-Alert and NZ warning signals sound like they'd be sampled by Death Grips
Around 2006 a Quad Cities car dealership broadcasted a false alarm signal so viewers can see their amazing deals. That was not cool! I hope the FCC made them stop.
There was a good and scary bushfire warning for Australia back when they had the really bad wildfires last year. I recommend checking that out
Why do you put a box to cover yourself?
Good question tbh
There's also a Fort Wayne Indiana online of the wrong tape Saturday tape.
0:15 OMG! BRO!! Don't make that noise!!! I seriously thought my computer was hard crashing to a BSOD
I Know Everyone Thought They Were About To Get A BSOD Or A Kernel Panic.
we have some sort of civil defence broadcast in Ireland, but it's only been activated once as far as I know. It's just a small bar of plain text with no noise accompanying it
We probably would be having a pint and a laugh if we got a weather warning or knowing RTÉ, they would get it an day late.