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SAME is still used in many areas. And yes, we get alerts on our phones.
We also get AMBER alerts when a child is abducted.
Oh those AMBER alerts!!! They'll come in the middle of the night and wake up the whole household!
There's also silver alerts for missing old people.
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@@Raggmopp-xl7yfbtw you can disable those
don't forget the Silver alerts for the demented
"This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. The broadcasters in your area..." The entire thing is burned in my memory 😂
The alert was a different tone, too.
"...had this been an actual emergency, you would have been instructed..."
This is a monthly test had this been an actual emergency...
"...the signal you heard would be followed by official information, news, or instructions."
Anyone else remember the version that Raiford did, about toxic waste and nuclear spills? It covered the required test, but funny as hell.
The craziest one was when Louisiana police used "The Purge" horror movie siren to signal the coronavirus curfew. This upset a lot of people.
🤣🤣🤣
We didn't have that in Pennsylvania
No way 💀
@@Project_Slagharen yes, it is on youtube court TV did a segment about it 😂
Louisiana resident here, that must have been _local_ police, bc it never happened in my area.
My middle school used to be a bomb shelter. It still has a sign outside of the one door, and we all thought the building was haunted, lol
I grew up during the cold war. Most public buildings were built with basements that doubled as civil defense shelters. That included my elementary school. That's also where they took us for tornado drills when I was a child. Now, we have an emergency alert system of a siren and recorded message, mostly for tornadoes. My town tests it every Wednesday at noon. It's creepy, but you get used to it.
Same here, but we had to dive under our desks.
Ours is 1pm Mondays.
London was nearly demolished by bombings during the world wars, so they are very familiar with shelters.
When I was a kid in Girl Scouts, we spent an overnight in a shelter with bunk beds. That's about all I remember, I don't know how much they told us about why were doing it. However, I lived in DC and we always thought we were a primary target in case of attack.
And I found out our school basement was full of asbestos- but then again the civil defense drills were more fun than sitting in class.
The W.A.S. system does make noise, vibrates, and it locks your phone until you address the message, so you can't ignore it.
Mine has never locked my phone. It has gone off for multiple tornado warnings in my area. Once I was on the phone while it came in since the sirens had started going off, but I had not yet gotten the notification and wondered if something else was wrong. It just popped up behind my call to let me know it was issued. Another time I saw it on the phone but was busy doing something else on my PC at work. I checked it later and dismissed the notification along with a few others. No big deal.
I just remember that one time I was listening with headphones to UA-cam only to have my phone scream at me over an amber alert. Thing raised the volume so high it hurt my ears
You can change the settings for these alarms that come through your
I sware it has sound
I get it a lot. But I also enjoy that you could turn it off. But what about the people who can’t afford or choose not to get a smart phone?
“Oh a tornado? I’ll go hide. Sorry Grandpa across the street, you’re on your own.”
Keep the damn EAS on TVs and radios to. It definitely will help!
I grew up in Tornado Alley. We're used to it, but it is really funny when someone from an area without them comes to the area and panics during the weekly siren test. Because, yes, once a week, the sirens are tested. My area has them on Saturdays at noon. You'll hear people mumble, "It's noon," or that will be their response when someone new start panicking and asking what's going on. Oklahoma invented the weather alert system. It's based on the sirens that were used in Scottland for the bombings in WWII. And yes, we tend to have regular tornado or flood warnings during tornado season that comes with TV, phone, and even siren alerts if it's bad enough.
As far as Cold War, nuclear war, or some kind of bunker situation... no. I'd probably just go to my tornado shelter area with my pets and use that same protocol? It seems exceptionally far-fetched, though. Especially that we'd actually have forewarning in the first place.
We have the test at 11am first Monday of the month here instead of weekly. But I agree, it can be funny to see reactions from people who don't have the alerts. I usually end up telling them it's the monthly test, don't worry.
We had an Amber alert here just the other night while at the store. Numerous phones went off all at the same time. A child had been kidnapped and they gave a description of the guys car and his plate number so people could watch for him.Police caught him the next day after a big chase.
Congrats u just summed up amber alerts in one comment! 👍
7:11 It does… we got use to the sound, but most people can’t ignore it. That and the three buzz sounds… “This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. This is only a test. If this was an actual emergency…”
Lmfao I hadnt thought of the 3 buzzes in years
Yeah, that's the one I always heard. Of course, being in Southern California we don't tend to get those often. Maybe 3 times a year if that. They may have an "earthquake warning alert" but there is no way to alert us if we're going to have an earthquake. LOL
We also have a silver alert. A Silver Alert is a public notification system used in some countries, including the United States, to broadcast information about missing elderly individuals, particularly those with Alzheimer's disease, dementia, or other cognitive impairments. It operates similarly to an Amber Alert, but is specifically aimed at locating missing seniors.
Also “Purple Alerts”, which are only in a couple states right now. They’re for the in between amber and silver alert ages who are considered “at risk” due to a mental disability
And Blue Alerts in Texas when a police officer is hurt or killed in the line of duty and they're looking for the suspect.
Hawaii is just now trying to implement silver alerts.
@@LoriL010 We get Blue Alerts in TN too.
@@ebonycoco1530 That's good. The more eyes the better.
where i used to live, school shootings happened SO OFTEN that we had a four-tone siren that would go across the entire city. anybody that was in the town would hear a scream and a few shots in a faint distance because it was a part of the alert, as well as every school shutting down entirely not letting anything move. if something moved at all, people may die, and it’s genuinely creepy. you would hear it maybe once or twice a year, it’s fucking horrifying. it’s so horrifying hearing “The city of Farmington is now going in a school shooting watch. All schools are being shut down and emergency services are being contacted, but all students are in danger. Be wary of (description of shooter).
Also, we have a LOT of amber alerts
While the nuclear alert systems are not used anymore, we still have numerous systems in place. Growing up in the Oklahoma City/ Yukon, Oklahoma area, tornado sirens were often heard. The state and national governments required that they be tested once a week, so every Saturday at noon, you could hear all of the sirens go off in a routine test. My first tornado threw me for a loop because they started playing the sirens around 8 or 9 PM on a Thursday night (I remember this whole thing super vividly for some reason). One of our neighbors had invited the whole street over to go in their tornado shelter, however, there were so many people that we didn't all fit in the shelter (which are commonly underground). After the sirens stopped they threw a party and it was just a really wierd night. I remember the sky being this distinct ugly yellowish green color (which it usually is after a supercell- which are the types of storms that can spawn tornados). Anyways yeah there's a story from my childhood nobody asked for lol
Fun fact: back in the 40s at least in AZ, people were required to pay for all emergency services. My grandma remembered twice when people's houses were burning, and they frantically pounded on door after door, and no one would call or let them use the phone in fear of being responsible for the fire dept. charges. I'm proud to say my grandma was the one "sucker" that let them use her phone.
That’s horrendous. Thank god for your grandmother.
In rural areas, paying dues for fire services is still a thing.
@@jamieminton1247 I did not know that.
@Justme_1221 She was a stubborn lady that tried to do the right thing, and damn the consequences. And there were heavy consequences back then. They don't make them like her anymore.
That's insane
They send alerts to your phone, iPad and any other system you have. Once a device is registered anywhere, they can be accessed by the city, state, or national level.
My grandparents grew up in the 50s and 60s, they did drills like this.....
but for nukes
Yes, you are correct, Lewis. All these ALERTS are sent to our cell phones now, as everybody has them handy, instead of a TV that a lot of people don't even watch anymore. The ALERTS can include anything from Weather events to Missing Persons, or as we call them, Amber Alerts which was named after a kidnapped girl named Amber. I wanna say it was the Daughter of the guy that hosted the show America's Most Wanted. But anyway, yeah, it's actually super beneficiary to have these Alerts go directly to our phones, even though they're accompanied by those same annoying alarm noises. Like we had an active tornado in our area about 2 weeks ago that prompted an over the phone alert.
The guy that did America’s most wanted his name, John Walsh… His son Adam was kidnapped in the 1980s and murdered… So they have code Adam in stores and things if a kid goes missing… The amber alert was named for Amber Herman I think her name was? She was abducted either in the late 90s or early 2000s and killed…
They come across your cell phone now.. I jumped outta my skin 2 days ago due to flooding in my area. Typically you get them for Amber Alerts (missing children), tornado/hurricane, flood and other warnings in your specific area. It starts with a loud buzz from your phone, then you get 3 screeching beeps (like the ones on the tv at the very beginning of your video), repeated 3 times and a warning message comes up on your phone screen, telling you a brief description of what's going on and how to proceed.
This was all mentioned in the video, watch until the end😀
There should have been an honorable mention of Orson Welles War of the World's broadcast. It was a story over the radio that some people thought was actually happening. First fictional emergency broadcast hahaha
My dido (grandpa) actually heard it live and told me all about it! Apparently it wasn’t as chaotic as some reports claimed it to be, but it was obviously terrifying to those that didn’t know it was just a fictional story being told.
@@starparodier91 I can imagine how that would freak a lot of people out
@@starparodier91 My grandparents also heard it live and said nobody in their town thought it was real. I guess a lot of people had read the books, so even if they didn't hear the beginning of the broadcast, they were familiar with the story. They all rolled their eyes at the "hysteria" that was reported in the newspapers. They sensationalized even back then! However, the radio broadcast set the story in New Jersey, and my grandparents were over on the west coast. So maybe it was not as impactful to them.
@@cloudsn Yeah he lived in Pennsylvania so he was much closer. It was also rural so that may have impacted it a bit.
The one about the aliens invading or sum like that
I live in Minnesota, USA. In a small town and we only have a tornado shelter at the school, just in case people don't have basements. But the sucking thing is that it's always locked just in case of vandalization.
I've heard most of these throughout my life (I'm now retired). Our county, in FL, has a prerecorded message from our current sheriff; which gives us severe weather warnings (hurricane, tornado, flooding, etc).
For Amber/Silver/Purple alerts, the phone blares the EBS signal followed by text message.
Although irritating to hear, they DO help keep us safe, so no complaints here😊
In northeast Ohio we have tornado sirens turned on every Saturday at noon to test them and make sure they are working. The only thing scarier than the sound of the emergency broadcast system going off during a tornado warning is hearing the sirens begin going off in the surrounding cities, one by one until finally yours goes off as well.
I’m also in NE Ohio and some of the cities even have a loudspeaker announcement following the tornado siren tests so if you’re not prepared or know what’s going on you’ll just hear the sirens going off then crazy loud jumbled booming announcements that you can’t really understand. 😭
For me it's run noon every day at noon
Thank god we don't have sirens in Texas that would really be weird to hear outside.
In Alabama, our tornado test is the first Wednesday of every month.
When I was a kid in the 70’s, we were sent to the basements of municipal buildings (schools, libraries, etc). There were often signs posted in the stairwells to let you know that there was a fallout shelter below.
Warnings were always scary as a kid, and the tests *frequently* disrupted children’s programming. (Also, I’m Gen X so it’s not like anyone was around to comfort you when that shit happened.)
As a fellow Gen X, I don't know a single person that was ever scared of it, at most we knew to pay attention long enough for them to say it was a test, on the off chance it was a Tornado warning that applied to us.
Mostly we were annoyed it was interrupting the show.
In Indiana, we have our tornado siren tests every Friday at 11am. The EAS does their test on the TV and radio once a month. The sound we hear is the one at 15:37
To answer your question about World War III, there's not much anyone can do if there is a real nuclear attack. Some people do still have fallout shelters, but now the recommendation is to get in the car and evacuate the area immediately. That's all you really can do.
I remember the S.A.M.E tests terrifying me as a little kid. Even though I knew exactly what it was and that nothing was wrong, the sound itself is designed to terrify you. It was also used for Amber alerts pretty frequently (missing child alerts).
W.E.A. are not like regular notifications; you can't ignore them.
I remember the the emergency alert tests going off during sesame street and Mr Rogers in the late 80s.🤣 Now I mostly get storm warnings for the surrounding mountains.
😂.. don’t forget romper room.. was that the name of it
Captain kangaroo? Mr green jeans..😂
I just noticed you said late 80’s .. I was thinking 70’s.🤦🏻♀️
I do remember being terrified at a weather alert going off during The Muppets/Muppet Babies when I was a kid.
I grew up in Texas, and moved to Oklahoma when I retired. We have dozens of these alerts every spring and summer, but you can have them anytime. Tornadoes hit quick and hard, so the more reaction you have, time the better. They are just part of life here in Tornado Alley.
On TV here in the US, I have seen/heard many EAS tests. I have seen many Severe Weather Alerts from the EAS, but on two separate occasions I have also seen Child Abduction/AMBER Alerts and those were quite chilling
13:20 They have alerts sent to your phone. You hear the sound and all, and it locks up your phone; as well as our weather radio, and the TV and all. We have a power plant siren here in VA, as well, right outside my house, deadass, looks like siren head, and it's very, very loud. Incase something were to go wrong with the power plant, the siren will go off, and soon the clouds will turn pink because of the toxic waste from the power plant, and death can happen and all, so that's why they have those sirens as well.
So here's the thing. When I was in kindergarten they taught us to hide under the desks in case of a nuclear attack. We literally did that through 5th grade. The Cuban missile crisis during the JFK presidency scared the hell out of us. But our air raid sirens still go off the first Tuesday of every month. Also, the tornado warnings come across TV, your phone and tablet. They might be loud but it can save your life too.
Remember them till the wall fell
"Duck and cover!"
@@buckeyeclayfanWhen my dad was in his 80's we were talking and I was amazed to find out that he didn't realize that when I was a kid I assumed we would all just be dead at any second because of the duck and cover drills.
My sister-in-law and I were talking to my nephew about this and he compared it to the school shooter drills he went through. We had to counter with the belief ours were worse because we thought EVERYONE around would just die or be sickened and die from radiation. Pitiful we had to one up him on childhood fear.
That WFIL one was from my childhood here.
I live in Wisconsin. Our alert system is tested WEEKLY! It gets used for severe thunderstorms and tornadoes as well as missing children (Amber Alerts) and alerts for missing adults. Our cell phones also get the alerts. We don’t install anything.
Yup lol, like clockwork
You can opt out of amber alerts.
@@mechmanslist true, but I'd hate myself if that 1 in a million chance i could be in the right place to save a kid and not get the message.
Also Wisconsin. Can confirm.
Missing old people is a silver alert.
I was curious about this too, so I asked my friend who works for a big telecom company.
They can’t see where you are, where your phone is etc when they send those alerts. It is just a mass burst to everything connected to the backbone of the network. I still don’t like it but even if you have no service you’ll still get it. As long as the tower can see your phone is connected to that tower, that’s all it needs.
Arizona here, I've heard the creepy S.A.M.E signal over the car radio numerous times. Typically, during monsoon season, there are warnings for flooding, lightning, and heavy dust storms in the desert. Fire outbreaks happen so often during droughts that we have developed a sense for them by smell and air quality alone-unless you're in Phoenix, where the summer air is _always_ nasty.
US here. to answer questions raised in the video:
- most of us rarely hear the alert system, unless we're up at like 3 AM when they do test broadcasts. the exception being people living in the bible belt/tornado alley, and people down in florida due to hurricanes.
- during WWII we built a boatload of bomb shelters everywhere. i'm sure some of them are still standing, but we haven't had any real nuclear awareness program since the end of the cold war, and as a result, only old timers know what to do, and no one knows where the local shelter is anymore, or if they have one. we still have those WWII air raid sirens around in some places(there's actually one in walking distance of my home), but since i don't live in tornado alley, i've never heard them.
- i would assume both the US and the UK average citizen are about equally unprepared for a russian ICBM landing in their town. we'd generally know to check the TV for the emergency system, and a lot of the A-bomb preparedness drills got renamed as earthquake drills and are basically the same, so we'll know the basics, but we'd have no idea where to actually go for a shelter, or what to do in detail, unless told over the Emergency broadcasts.
- Most alerts for things like hurricanes or other things the Emergency Alert System is used for, has been largely also covered by smartphone alerts as the video says. they still use the old system for redundancy's sake, and likely will continue to for some time still.
I heard them often enough as a kid. They interrupted kid programs to play the test often enough to be annoyed when it happened, but not too often.
The mock "the sun went out" one is actually an SCP entry, it's a really good read and there are a few videos about it and is the origin of that video. It's interesting to have seen it mentioned here.
What sort of batteries does the sun take anyway? Double-S? We need to get an adapter for it.
I follow the twitter account too
As a kid in California during the 60's/70', we jumped under our school desks during alerts. Protected us against both nuclear attack and earthquakes
yep, they were still doing that in the 80s except it was just for earthquakes.
I remember those days too 🫣
Kids are still being taught to go under their desks in case of an earthquake. I work at an elementary school, there are many different emergency situations the kids are taught and we have drills for…what to do if there is a shooter in the school, what to do if there is a shooter outside, what to do if there is a shooter in the neighborhood, so crazy and maddening our biggest alerts and emergencies are due to humans 😡
We had the tornado alert that came across our cellphones in Highlands Ranch, CO last year where we experienced a tornado which was very rare for the area (like it never had happened before). Even the insurance companies were saying "wait a tornado where?"
I live in California and we get a lot of hail and thunderstorms in the winter so whenever the EAS pops up I just turn off the T.V and wait for like 30s and then turn it back on.
I remember seeing EAS alerts when I was a kid, but the phone alerts are way more common: we get weather warning notifications and things for Amber Alerts more often than not.the tone is - LOUD - and beyond that, typically the phone vibrates and the flashlight might strobe on and off to alert you.
(Note: an Amber Alert is a Child Abduction safety alert: basically, gives a description of a vehicle, advising residents to call 911 if you see one matching that description)
I was born in 1963 so the Emergency Broadcast System was used as I was growing up. It is still used. However, Emergency Alert is also used mostly for extreme weather. We hear this system in Minnesota during the summer if bad weather is heading our way. They may be combining. Who knows, but the Emergency Broadcast Alert is much scarier as it means something threatens the whole country.
Tornado siren tests in my town are the 1st Tuesday of every month at 11:00 am. This month there was a huge storm at the time and I had to look at my weather app to see if it was just the test or if I needed to get in my "safe space" in the center of my house, I don't have a basement.
15:34. Just went through this one a couple of hours ago. There I was, minding my own business watching videos about tornadoes no less, when the sirens start up, several of my apps start alerting me, and when I turn the tv on, I get an tornado warning. So, then I got to go downstairs and listen to the news for an hour or so while the storm passed over. Fortunately for me it didn’t intensify into actual tornadoes until it had passed by. I guess there were some sighted, but haven’t heard of any injuries.
I'm in Canada, and that sound in the video is broadcasted to every cell phone connected to the network in the general area of where the emergency is. They use it for weather and recently Amber Alerts for missing children. The entire screen goes black with a grey box that pops up with the details of the emergency in bold white text and even if your phone volume is down, the alarm still goes through and it doesn't go away until you press the OK button at the bottom.
Same in the US.
Same here. US.
@@katalystkatapatheticalyssa5987Every Wednesday at around noon. The ones for weather alerts seem to come through in the wee hours of the morning.
We can turn off amber alert notifications on our phones in the US if we want.
@stevenburkhardt1963 It's the same in Canada. I have mine muted for Amber Alerts because if my phone is muted then that means I'm asleep and I'm not going to be on the watch for a missing kid.
We get alerts for snow squalls, which are basically blinding snow storms that create a whiteout. Drivers cannot see 10 feet in front of their car many times. More often than not, these cause pile ups on major highways. One such squall caused an oil trucker to burst into flames on the side of the road from an accident it caused.
i had no idea what a snow squall was. i was going to the next town over and saw the message on my phone and was like "wtf is this, just more snow? (I live in the Midwest, driving in snow is nothing new to me) and next thing ya know i was dead stopped on the road because i could not see past my windshield lmao
My dad was a firefighter, so his pager would sound off for any alerts. It would wake me up from across the house. Now, it gives me nostalgial. Conelrad still does a national Christmas Broadcast over all emergency pagers to alert where santa is flying over all night Christmas Eve. It's so funny. I used to get so excited.
I remember seeing those tv tests in the 90s. And you still hear them on the radio sometimes. It's part of why i listen to the radio still when i drive. 15:40 is the one i always hear.
Yes, I have heard an alert for shooter at large.
They already send alerts to your cell phone. It could be for anything tornado, hurricane, a missing child, senior, a military attack, wildfires. They move, tremendously fast and are terrifying.
In Alaska every cell phone and television has symotaneous alerts. Including lost kids, huge storm warnings Including sunomi warnings after earthquakes.
15:35 is the sound we had in Mississippi when I was younger and I've had a few alerts on my phone with that sounds
I remember the emergency alert for my college going off once. It was a robotic monotone voice that didn't tell you where or what the emergency was, just that we had to leave the building. Sounded apocalyptic. I wasn't that familiar with the campus at the time, so I had rushed into this courtyard that was apparently locked on all sides. This was the first and only time I've ever hopped a fence taller than me
The SAME tones are also used by special "weather radios". The town I live in does not have tornado warning sirens. So people often have weather radios that have an alarm tone that goes off when it receives a SAME message for the area it is programmed to monitor. The radio I have also has a small text display that will show the warning type across the display. It gets that from the SAME data burst he was talking about.
My elderly grandmother can sleep through the loudest weather radio in existence. How I don't know. She said she put it there just so she would know if bad weather was coming to take shelter (her lake house isn't close to town). But it doesn't even wake her up. Good point about weather radios though!
Your grandma is a very talented sleeper
They have a pillow shaker attachment
@@carcar2670 i’ve heard that I think that’s really cool
"The National Weather Service in the Twin Cities has issued a tornado warning until (insert time) for portions of (insert area). Doppler radar (or Trained Spotters) has indicated a tornado located about (insert miles and direction) of (insert city) and heading (insert direction) at (insert speed). Wind damage is expected. Hail damage is expected. Damage to buildings and trees is expected. Take shelter in a basement or interior room away from windows." I have that thing memorized.
I'm in Southern California, in the foothills NNW of downtown Los Angeles. In 2009 we had the Station wildfire, which burned 160,000 acres, including the mountain one mile north of me. Seeing that entire mountainside blazing in the dark was incredible.
At 3:00am one morning my phone rang and it was EAS saying to evacuate immediately. I grabbed my bugout bag and ran outside, but the fire hadn't moved any closer. One of my neighbors managed to call the Sheriffs Station and we were told the automated call was a mistake. They sent it to our entire community instead of just the ones living within a quarter mile of the treeline.
One problem the call revealed is, it didn't go to people whose cell phone numbers weren't local. Now you are advised you can sign up for local alerts by providing your cell number.
Fairly recently they tested the Presidential Alert System in the US, it went out to all radios, all phones, and all TVs in the US at the same time. It was pretty crazy flipping from radio station to radio station and they’re all playing the same alert sound lol
They're fairly common here in the midwest honestly. We just had a tornado warning 2 days ago. Nothing touched down thankfully, but still. The tv was blaring (15:38), the sirens were going off, and I got a warning to my phone.
Those alerts always terrified me as a child. Plus if I saw the county we lived in/I still live in named I’d start to freak out until my parents explained we live in a big county and we were fine. I have them turned off on my phone. Never had to deal with sirens here but I did in Japan. I prefer their alert system to the US since I never felt like I was going to have a heart attack but was still properly alerted, which I think is better.
With my anxiety I need to be as calm as possible in an emergency.
The S.A.M.E. sound is the one that I have heard the most in my life. Where I live we get tons of national dust storm warnings, where we get 12 car pile ups because of it and more damages to homes and vehicles.
The tests are scheduled a few times during the year or just before hurricane/tornado season. I grew up with the shelter-in-place test practiced once a month when I was in elementary school (early 1970s). As I grew up in California, the warnings were quite often, but most times, the warnings were after an earthquake rather than prior to them. We still had to practice several drills, including hiding under our tables and chairs, hiding in halls with our hands protecting our necks, and curling up in a ball while semi-upright on our knees. Now, the recommended safety practices are completely different from back then
I'm from Minnesota. AMBER Alerts and some severe weather alerts come through our phone and scare the shit out of you. They will make that loud screeching sound regardless if your phone is muted or your volume is down. They also test the tornado sirens on the first Wednesday of every month, which is what the "It's Wednesday my dudes! WAAAAAAAAAAH!" vine video is about.
When I was younger, certain radios and TVs would come on by themselves when the broadcast system was tested, and they are LOUD - you can't possibly miss when an emergency is happening.
Emergency tones are on my tv and phone. Emergency tests or drills are done on my tv every week. Both the one that is two signals combined, and the S.A.M.E. tone. When I was a kid in the late 50s and early 60s they told us to hide under our desks in school and we depended on our parents to guide us at home. For bad weather, we usually ended up in our basement with a radio letting us know what was happening.
The tornado siren in my town is tested on the first Wednesday of every month. It went off 5 times in one night a few years ago during some severe weather, but there were no tornadoes. My town was hit by a rain-wrapped EF2 tornado in November 2022, but thankfully missed where I live by a little over a mile away. We’re used to hearing sirens in Texas. I get alerts on my phone as well.
I live about 10 miles from a nuclear power plant, and they do the scary siren test at the beginning of every month too. They're really good about advertising the day/time it will be done so as not to freak people out, but one month I did miss the calendar and when it went off I had to call my sister, "we're not about to die, right?" No. Me: "Just checking. Thanks! "😂
I live near Mt. Rainier in Washington State. We used to hear the Lahar warnings regularly but I haven’t heard them for a while now.
Lahar is the mudflow that follows a volcanic eruption. There are emergency evacuation routes to get out of its path. I do get alerts for other things on my phone now.
I've had that alert for weather warnings a few times, shelter in place as well in NYC, child abduction in progress alerts. It's the creepiest thing when everyone's phone goes off at once. Like in Halifax during the fires, it was one phone then they all went crazy
Tornado alerts and sirens sound in many of the states in tornado alley. The sirens wake up dead.
My mom’s family is all in tornado states so I know them from some visits. But I also know them because they use the same sirens for tsunamis. I’m in the PNW and our entire coast is a tsunami risk zone. They’re effective.
One of my earliest memories is riding in the backseat of my parents’ car listening to the radio in the summer when the EAS signal went off. They’re made to be loud too, so you can have your radio turned quite low and then it blasts your ears out.
And the robot voice. Creepy as shit.
15:40 16:35 17:53 Growing up in tornado alley, I heard these all the time as a kid 😂 they still test & play warnings over the radio & television but they'll also issue warnings online and you'll be notified by your phone (the alert sound does play when the message pops up). And yes, our tornado sirens get tested weekly. Where I live now it's every Saturday, where I grew up it was every Thursday.
I've seen both a shooter alert & a prisoner escape warning (pretty close to where I lived) & yes, it definitely puts you on edge.
where I grew up in Canada, we got several TV stations from Buffalo, NY and I remember well the EBS warning test messages. Combined with the local air raid siren testing, and nuclear attack drills we went through in school, it was an interesting childhood.
Nowadays we get Amber Alerts, Severe Storm warnings, and Tornado warnings on TV and mobile phones. A few years ago we also received an alert about an accident at a nearby Nuclear Power Station which turned out to be a test alert that accidently went out to the public.
I live directly next to a town hall building with the EAS tower on it, literally leaving my parking lot requires I drive there through the parking lot it’s in. Once a month it goes off at 10AM, all of about 30 yards from my window.
The EAS tower is meant to be heard miles away.
I live in Alabama and every Wednesday at noon our tornado sirens are tested, You will hear our sirens going off for about a minute. As far as being warned about a tornado in our area it will be shown on all of our local tv stations and also sent to you cell phone if you have the weather station apps loaded on your phone. You would also be notified with an AMBER ALERT if a child goes missiong, which will tell you any pertinent information that they have regarding the missing child. We also have weather radios which will sound if there is a tornado watch, warning or a servere thunderstorm watch or warning, and also flash flood watch or warning. and yes we also get alerts for escaped prisoners, etc. on your cell phone.
Every Friday at 11am the sirens go off for several seconds. Now, when there is a nasty storm on the horizon and they go off, ish gets real and momentarily scary. Luckily we have a basement now so I don't have the same level of fear or angst as when we didn't have a basement. Keep the solid content coming. Cheers Bro!
I live in MS, so we don't get warnings as much. I've been through about 18 tornado watches( no sirens) and 7 tornado warnings ( interrupt live TV, sends an alert to phone, outside sirens go off) during this you just go to a safe place( no windows as close to the center of the house as possible, a trusty neighbor, or most preferably the basement or storm shelter if you have one. It's a pretty chill thing where we just grab our phone/ charger, a jacket, shoes, and something to keep as busy. They also test sirens out every few months(2-3 times a year) and the news lets you know that it's a drill. The most recent alert I've got was an amber alert to my phone (it has a siren even with do not disturb on) about the description of a driver and their car( including license plate and other information)suspected of kidnapping a 3 year old boy. The alerts/sirens are not that scary since I've grown up with it as a normal thing to occure
1:15 To answer your question, these alerts occur anytime there is a tornado warning, severe thunderstorm warning, or even a flash flood warning. However, alerts will only go out to those living in the region of the affected area, not the entire nation.
23:00 My cousin's husband is in The Coast Guard, and he was stationed in Hawaii at the time of the false alarm in 2013. He was at work when it happened, and my cousin was beyond scared to say the least, especially since she was at home taking care of their two very young kids by herself.
I live in Memphis TN and the tornado alarms go off every wendsday at 3:30pm. Considering memphis is a tourist location and thunderstorms are nearly a daily thing in the summer, Ive aways wondered how many people got scared during the tests.
I grew up on the eas alert at 15:44 in New Jersey. EAS alerts used to scare the shit out of me but they don’t anymore. If you wanna hear some sirens, there’s “the day after” and “threads” attack scenes. There’s also nuke sirens here on UA-cam.
The tornado alert system is the biggest trigger for me I swear. I live in the Midwest and during tornado season (spring time, sometimes summer) it could be as often as 3x a week if the weather fluctuates a lot or it could be once a month but it’s seriously terrifying.
Here in Kansas it happens often. But testing than real alerts.
Hello fellow Kansan
These not only come over broadcast tv (not so much cable/internet app tv), but also on our phones as well as many radio stations and we still have the sirens as well. The sirens are tested once a month, same day and time every month.
We also get Amber Alerts (missing/kidnapped children) and Silver Alerts (missing elderly, may have Dementia/Alzheimer's and/or in poor health otherwise).
Local weathermen/radiomen managing the Emergency Broadcast System brings back tons of memories
"WTHI's Doppler radar has detected weather conditions capable of producing tornadoes" and etc
Back in wichita (a city in kansas), I think there was tornado siren tests every monday when the skies were clear, like no stormy weather. It freaked me out the first few times but my mom explained to me that it was just a test.
I am a 50 year old American woman (Generation X). I've lived in New Jersey my whole life. When I was a little girl in 1st, 2nd, 3rd grade, they would have random nuclear war drills while we were in school on a somewhat regular basis. We'd be sitting there in class, and suddenly these alarms would go off and we'd all have to hide under our little desks. It was terrifying. We weren't even at home with our families. They normalized this for us back then. It left an imprint in our poor little brains. I remember sitting under my desk thinking there's no way this little desk is going to save me from a nuclear bomb! 😭🥴🤕
That's weird. I'm 53 in NY and this never happened here. Most we had in school was fire drills.
Yeah the whole desk thing wouldn’t have done anything. All the advice I’ve ever heard is you have to drop to the ground and plug your ears so, hopefully, the blast wave doesn’t blow out your ear drums. But after the shock wave is done you have to move cause of the radiation
Yes. Our desks were going to save us. At least during tornado and hurricane drills we went out into the hallways.
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The National Weather Service warning was the most common but also is now the one that goes to the phone. We had a tornado warning where I'm at back in February which included the siren. But the localized warnings started after the Xenia ef5 tornado during the super outbreak. As for the active shooter. I had a few of those in Florida.
13:26 There was actually a tornado warning in south east Texas last night. My friend down there said that they got an alert on their phone saying like “WARNING: TORNADO IN THE AREA” they had like 7 minutes to get in their laundry room. People were still on the road too, and skyscrapers’ windows were smashed.
A friend of mine worked graveyard shift for a Little Rock radio station in the early-mid '80s. At a certain time every night, in the wee hours of the morning, he was supposed to plug in a cart (tape loop cartridge, similar to an 8-track tape) of the emergency broadcast system test. One night he screwed up and plugged in the wrong cart. Fortunately it was like 3am, so few people heard it, but whatever listeners were up heard a warning that there was an emergency situation and they should stay tuned for instructions from Washington DC.
I worked in a small radio station in 2000, we still had the EAS cart machine, but luckily it was automated. We were suppose to turn it off the automation during our shift and when an alert came through play the cartridge after a song. To be honest I wasn't going to be the person who missed an alert, so I kept it with it automatically going on. No alerts ever came on during my shift.
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@13:29, yes all of the phones and tvs go off at the same time, @13:46, they actually can still send it through the tv even if you have it connected to the Xbox, etc. @15:40, yep, that is what ours sounds like 😮😅 tbh, we never knew that there was that info being put out through the noise?!!
Have you heard of the Hawaii false alarm ballistic missile warning that happened some years back? It was quite the experience. I still remember it well despite being a teenager as there is no more sobering moment then being informed of your own potential mortality with an eta.
I've only had WEA for tornados and amber alerts. Had to shelter in place after complete lock downs in highschool, but there weren't any alert tones, just the front office on the pa system saying we're in lockdown, and then shelter in place. My highschool taught everyone how to improvise weapons and how to protect ourselves and others in case of active shooters as well as how to escape and where to go
Around the 50’s to the Cold War was when nuclear war was seen as an inevitable threat. Many schools built shelters in case of a nuclear strike, and some also doubled as community shelters. Nuclear warfare seemed like such a real possibility that drills were required in schools and communities were creating and enforcing policies to protect themselves in case of an attack. There were also many government sponsored ads to inform civilians of the threat of nuclear weapons, and how to prepare for them.
That alert went off on my phone at 3 am once with a tornado warning. It scared the sheet out of me, but I’m glad it works. It’s a good thing.
Yeah, a few years ago we had the remnants of a tropical storm moving over us and we had constant downdrafts and circulation all through the area for like 6 hours straight. On the map we were completely purple and red, so the alert went off like every 20 minutes. It was SO nerve wracking! But I just gathered up the pets, basically moved us half into my bedroom, half into my inner closet, and waited it out. It was really stressful, but I was also glad to know that it works.
For most cities, there was a public shelter in public buildings. This can be schools, librarys, police departments, fire departments , city halls, etc. Plus some cities do use the siren alot that being to alert the volunteer fire department to respond to the department for a call, some cities even use it daily to sound noon
In West Michigan, the National Weather Service alert is the most common. Bigger cities like one near me will use some kind of geofencing to issue alerts to cell phones within a particular area. For example, recently a big city had a water main break and issued a boil water advisory. I don’t live there so I didn’t know, but I commute through the city. As soon as I crossed the city limits while driving, my phone issued an alert with a very loud noise and then my phone screen locked to a visual message. The worst part is I use earbuds to listen to audiobooks so it was quite startling in my ears.
I remember being a child, every Saturday at noon they tested the air raid siren. It was so loud, no matter what part of the city you were in, if you were outside at noon on Saturday, you would hear the siren. It was taught to us in school, if we ever heard the siren at any other time than noon on Saturday, it meant Russia was attacking. The 19070s and 1980s were a strange time to grow up. I mean, there were public service announcements that would remind our parents to make sure they knew where we were! Who else remembers "It's 10 PM. Do you know where your children are?"
They have a test once a week on the television complete with loud screaming noises to get our attention, the only problem with their tests is they always come when you are in the middle of an important program! Oh well, that's life in America! My mother told me that she was instructed about 640 and 1240 AM! Not everyone has a cell phone, I don't, I still have a landline. Our emergency alert uses the S.A.M.E. noises, so we know exactly what it is from any room in the house!
One of the first jobs that I got after graduating from college was at a cave in Wisconsin. I was told during training that the cave was and still can be used as an emergency bunker if needed. If I recall correctly it could hold the entire cities population in it if not a bit more
The safest place for me (in my location, in the case of bombs) that isn't 3~ hours away, is a really deep cave. 😅
Also, they test the sirens every first Wednesday of the month. (At least in my town).
When the national weather alert sound came on I literally got chills. It just brings me back to that moment when you hear it for that first time and your heart sinks because the tornado is coming.
Grew up in the 90’s in Maryland with both the EBS and the EAS. 15:35 brings back memories. As little kids we only knew them as weather alerts as we were naive to the evils of the world (bombs & terror). They played the tests every morning on tv so we were used to the interruption in our shows. Never was freaked out.
The TV stations here still test the Emergency Alert System on them and it always catches you off guard and you can’t get to the mute button fast enough. It causes my poor old cat so much trauma I’m surprised she hasn’t had a heart attack.
Poor poor little kitty
Only rich people and government have fallout shelter
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Most areas that were around or built during the cold war have a fallout shelter just not advertised anymore. Where i live the old high school which is now the middle school the basements basement is a fallout shelter. A fue years ago they were rebuilding a plaza about a mile down the road and cvs had to leave access to the other entrance.
Or those with a small piece of some land, and are willing to devote a summer to digging out a shelter. 🤷♂️
Not so, as a child growing up in the south side of Chicago, we had numerous fallout shelters. One was across the street from my house. This was the 1960’s, so different time. I rarely see the fallout shelter signs anymore, young people today do not have the same experience; we were taught what to do and where to go in case of nuclear attack. Today, young people have active shooter drills.
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It’s always fun when you’re on a channel with low volume & the weekly EAS comes on & BLARES through your house
We had some major tornadoes here in Iowa yesterday. A wedge tornado, hugest one went through Omaha Nebraska and southern Iowa, luckily I'm up north more
Were told to get on our knees under our desks and cover our heads with our hands. I only experienced this once. I was in 1st or 2nd grade. I refused. My teacher got mad but i was such a smart ass, i told her i wasnt going to die in that position. I lived in Iowa. We has SAC about 100 miles away. The Armery in the Quad cities. An enemy would hit both i told her so we would be gone anyway.
Which displays ignorance of what nukes are actually capable of.
I grew up with the EAS in Kansas as a kid. When those tones dropped, so did my heart into my stomach. Then when the sirens started going off, it fell out my ass. I also had dogs and they would start howling, my mother would tell me to go grab a pillow and blanket and go to the basement. I had a siren placed less than 200 ft from my backyard, so it would get loud. It was a terrifying experience as a kid, and yes I still stop and think when the sirens go off to make sure if it is Wednesday or not.