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"more time staring at poles then a Lithuanian" gotta be a top 5 quip. 😂
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forgive my ignorance, but could you explain that one? I dont know anything about lithuanians
L0L
@@mtraven23Research Poland 1930-1940s might be a gold start
Lowkey PLC joke
You can’t keep getting away with it, Cleveland.
Tf happened I want the story
Reykjavik: "/ O h i o w i l l b e e l i m i n a t e d"
They fucking know
We can and we will
We deny everything! And you can't prove it anyway.
"Than the average Lithuanian", pfft, love your humour 😅👍
Belarussian could also work
@@16jan1986 Königsbergians hope everyone forgot about them
@@16jan1986 As a Pole, I find that very funny 😁
New national rivalry unlocked
@@theleva7 all from königsberg are living in Germany..... Ethnic cleansing by Russians .....only people living in that area are Russians
As a southern the only correct response to hearing a tornado sirens is to go outside and stand on your porch looking into the sky with your hand on your sides
So, I was wrong doing that on the roof?
I asked my BIL (from Kansas) if people really just stand around and yack about whatever, and he was like "Oh yeah, you can usually tell if it's gonna come yer way, we just drink beer 'til it's time to get the fuck outta Dodge".
We needed this rain...
This is also true in the Midwest
Damn straight
As a Pole, this is a top notch Polish joke. Hats off!
At first, that joke skied right past me
It took me a sec... L0L!!
How to find a bot name last name and a bunch of numbers. Wake up people
@@patpat586 That's right! How is Michał Ireneusz Jakubowski not a unique user name and there is 5289 of them.
yup, it's a well-polished joke indeed!
"Go to your basement" unless its a chlorine gas leak turning your town into the Somme.
was going to say, to bad if it's a gas that's heavier than oxygen.
Cleveland here. Can confirm, we know what we did.
Wright patt will be initiating second strike
Lol I want the full story, I have several FOMO
I need the lore on this 😂
@@CryptToneMusic Yeah I can't find anything to explain it other than they opened up an air route between the two.
"Yall sur do talk funnay" that almost sounded real
The sheer density of jokes and information is astounding
😂😂😂
I lived about 2mi away from Union Pacific’s largest rail yard (Roseville, CA) and heard their siren one day. Nearly shit my pants, but luckily it was a test they didn’t announce well.
The last time that siren went off for a good reason was in the 70s, and 12 box cars full of bombs and ammunition derailed and exploded.
North Platte is UP’s largest rail yard. And the incident in the 70’s propane tanks exploded that set off the bombs.
My younger brother was born when we lived in Roseville in the early 50's. Back then it was the engineers who did long horn blasts for their wives (?) Which woke him from naps which really pissed off my mother. He grew up to become an engineer, of the more Civil variety, and designed roads and highways for most of his career. I live along one he designed, and he turned what had been a twisting roller coaster into a 70 mph highway. Ironically, it ran near the long abandoned railroad grade of the SJ&E Railroad. The SJ&E is reputed to mean "Slow, Jerky, and Expensive." That must not have bothered my grandparents, because they rode it on their honeymoon in 1916.
"spend more time nervously staring at poles than the average lithuanian" lmao
I really enjoy your videos, keep going man!
I was finally diagnosed as having a touch of the 'tism when I went in for an ADHD re-test in my 20s. How come I didn't get the cool one- liner and mad scientist perks like him??
That's a Federal Signal 2T22, one of the best sirens they've ever made. I've been working on sirens for 17 years and I'm a huge fan of your channel.
Are you any good with 3T22s? I have a 3T22A that is having problems and I could use some tips.
Back home we call those tsunami sirens 🌊
@@smashedcaboose6526what's up with it?
@@smashedcaboose6526I've rebuilt several
real
I am not close enough to hear them, but every month these go off for a test you never want to hear for real. Basically the sirens I speak of mean "The local nuclear power plant has gone a bit pear-shaped. Ya might wanna not be outside right now."
Mushroom shaped, you mean.
@@SawsquatchNope! Pear!
Reactors don't go boom; they melt and leak out the bottom.
"Want to see something cool." And it's always cool.
I've never laughed when I was referred to as a skid mark before 😂
There is too much humor packed into this video for me to pick a joke and respond to it, hats off to you sir.
Thank you :) I'm glad you enjoyed it!
@@Physicsduck where can i find that shirt? Im autistic and love it
Tornado sirens have changed their sound over the years, but they still send chills up my spine.
In my country they are tested every first monday of the month at 12 o’clock. At which time everybody’s required to say either: “is it noon already?” or “whoa, I hope that’s not real” or “if I were Russia, I’d attack on the first monday at noon so nobody’ll notice.” One of those three. It’s the law.
The sound change is due to the fact that the older sirens are mechanical as opposed to more modern all electric sirens.
Who asked?
(I am joking for the mentally challenged.)
i hear them every few weeks or days, they’re used to alert the voluntary firemen (especially the farmers) if they don’t have their pagers on hand
These sirens can mean anything from "shelter in place" to "go to a shelter" to "evacuate immediately and head inland". Or nothing at all in some cases, unless you have a specific job.
Where I grew up they were used as tidal and storm surge warnings, usually telling people to get off the beach or evacuate their homes and head inland. Though one PYO farm had one that went off to tell people to finish picking because they were closing soon.
And yes, they were left over carter sirens from WWII, so they had the same sound you've probably heard in countless war films.
The average Lithuanian…Very, very smart, funny writing. Bravo, sir.
"I am a low budget weirdo with dangerous toys and weaponized autism" what the heck man
In my home town, in Worcestershire, UK, the local carpet factory indicated shift changes with a bull horn that could be heard across town, so the logical progression was that the siren that called volunteer firefighters was called the 'Firebull'. This was from my early childhood, and sadly the 'Firebull' was replaced by radio pagers, which I was issued with when i became a firefighter. The carpet factory is long gone, demolished and even the fire station is closed!😢
Nearby, just outside of Boston, Massachusetts was a gelatin factory. Recently demolished and replaced with apartments and commercial buildings, they have kept the air horn that still blows at 9:00 AM and 9:00 PM. A nice reminder of the history of the place. Though us neighbors more vividly remember the stench of whatever flavor they were making… grape and cherry much preferred to “unflavored”🤢!
here in the german countryside we have both the pagers and the sirens, we once had a geezer run outside and yell that the russians were coming
A factory across the border used to use one as clock.
iceland mentioned, yeah about those volcanoes...
you know what they say, every evil super villain lives in a volcano, and we have plenty of volcanos.
Rvk 101 ftw.
I was racking my head what iceland did (or is it what cleaveland did to iceland?). Moreover they dont have nukes, let alone an airforce, heck not even a national army or reserve.
The only weapon they possess is the GIUK gap and the balls on their Coastguardsman.
That was a great Pole joke
As a person who is very much so
hyper fixated on sirens and electricity stuff seeing this, just absolutely blew my mind. That siren is a FS 2T22 siren. Honestly, also this PSA is completely correct. Where I am from sirens are rarely ever used as weather sirens and usually used as fire sirens to call firefighters. So thanks for making this PSA. And honestly great drone shot of the siren as well.
That looks to be a Federal Signal 2T22 with a short GE Motor. Looks very nice
it might be a 3T22, And can do the High/Low signal
@@keeshahdarkfurr8328 There are no solenoids for Hi Lo. its a 2T22
The old-school original air raid siren just freezes my heart when I hear It. No matter if it's live or in a movie, it just sends chills up my spine.
It's working as intended then
@@bobnelly2716well you’re supposed to notice it, freezing is counterproductive
It is not Poles Lithania worries about these days
My dad is the local emergency manager, we have a thunderbolt and a bunch of sd-10s sitting around town that we’re trying to reactivate
Some daft bint does a barrel roll with a freight train 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Where I grew up it was to warn us if the dam broke. So the basement was a bad idea! Haha
In rural areas it was and sometimes still is a way to bring volunteer firefighters to the station in emergencies.
Lots of towns around me do also some do at noon
This is exactly the case where I live. The siren sounds for every fire or ambulance call, and thus is disregarded by all.
Go 30 minutes south, however, and the sirens mean imminent radiological hazard from the local NPP.
In my area, this is true. I only know of one place that uses the typical “tornado siren” in a way other than to call the local volunteers in… that’s the siren at the regional airport in my county. Still, that’s likely to be used to call out airport fire control for a crash. Now, a couple rural counties (that also has volunteer “fire whistles”) away, they have a couple chemical plants. They have on-site warning systems based around sirens and speakers and a set of traffic lights a couple miles apart. If the sirens blow and the traffic signal is set to red, you might as well get a couple dozen miles away faster than you got to the lights… and that comes straight from the people that runs that specific set of sirens.
“Y’all sure do talk funny” you’re damn right. As someone who moved deeper into the south the accents are fucking amazing around here
The nuclear power plant near my old house had sirens like that to warn their neighbors of catastrophe. They would do short(30 sec) test runs quarterly.
Scared the bajesus out of me the day I found out they also run 2 minute long tests once a year.
Luckily I googled before sprinting to my car and trying to find out if i could in fact drive fast enough to outrun the problem.
Every once in a while, the plant I used to live near would do multi-week long sweeps of every single siren in their effective radius, and so one day I was home sick and that day happened to be the day they did it in my region. With nothing better to do, I decided to keep count of how many times I heard sirens that day. I heard a total of 54.
@@josephpasfield2557 I worked at one. They really do take that stuff seriously. By the way, typically the local sheriff's office have the button to set them off, not the plant.
@@nathanwahl9224 I suppose there's a local override...
As a fellow person who pays way too much attention to normally ignored infrastructure, that siren is a Federal Signal 2t22B. 2t stands for 2 tones, 22 for how many ports (horns) total. There is a upper 12 port chopper and stator for the high tone and a 10 port chopper and stator for the low tone. Both are powered by a single phase brushed 7.5 hp motor in the center. (A model had a 10hp 3 phase induction motor)
There were sirens like this in Bellingham Washington when I lived there- due to all of the chlorine used by the Georgia Pacific plant in town...
They were used, briefly, when the Olympic gasoline pipeline burst in 1998, which shook the whole town when it went up, and the tower of pitch black smoke that rose tens of thousands of feet literally looked like a volcano.
My family is from/in Bellingham, hey fam
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Physicsduck: Go inside to your basement.
Me: Yeah about that...
A Florida basement is also known as an indoor pool
Usually these things start howling when I arrive in town, to warn the good folks there that where I go, disaster usually follows.
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"..some daft bint does a barrel roll with a freight train..."
You called? 😂
I call those civil defense sirens. The electronic ones have tones not possible with mechanical ones. Like a whoop tone, chimes, and voice announcements.
our city get rid of our ThunderBolt's, and now we are stuck with wheelan speaker sirens. Not as loud, Not as scary, and not as durable.
They finally took down that exact model from our town square two years ago it for struck by lightning and was to expensive to fix. I used to love that thing. The local vfd would use it
Super. The powers that be in Longmont, Colorado, decided to pull down the warning sirens and rent out the towers to cell phone companies. That will be ironic to the people who don't have a cellphone when we have an emergency. 💙 T.E.N.
Oh thats definitely a decision that wont bite them in the ass later down the line.
What the hell? Did they put up new ones at least?
I worked in a Chemical Company once and after the safety training was done he said and by the way when the sirens go off, Drop what you’re doing and start running with the crowd. He said don’t ask questions don’t reason why just run like your life depends on it. So an hour later I did exactly what he said but he didn’t tell me there was a lunch siren!🚨 😅😅😅
In Ukraine im hearing it constantly, no one actually going in the shelters, its a big gamble to live each day.
They definitely be testing it all the time and scaring us
We have them everywhere in PA. every volunteer fire department uses them. Every time they have a call, the thing goes off! Even at 3:00 am!
@@marcs3982 we have one by our station here in Wisconsin but we don’t use it that way for our calls but I have heard of some in the state that still do.
God bless the firefighters!
Mine goes off every single day at noon. Every. Single. Day.
"Average lithuanian" wait, is he lithu- oh, poles, i see
Props from the UK on “daft bint”… 👌🏻😂
We had them as a kid as tornado sirens, though we colloquially called them "Iron Daffodils."
I’m glad I’m not the only one that thinks two and three T2 two sirens look like weird flowers.
Love your shirt
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The town I grew up in used it to alert the volunteer Fire Department. Once there was enough personnel to respond the siren was shut off. It also sounded every day at exactly 6:00pm.
When I was a kid, and I’m old. We had one in the center of town, it would go off every day at noon, they used it for the volunteer fire dept in our small (now large) community.
Literally the plot of a Malcom in the middle episode.
In Calumet, Michigan, ours goes off every day at 12:30pm for lunch.
It's a old mining community.
Excellent!! EWS or Howler, for sure! Great suggestions, too!
Good 1, Thank You
They did a good job on that install.
That is an old pole. Still got the steps.
That was cool !
Also, get a Midland weather radio. They don't just alert to weather! They can be set to go off for all sorts of emergency situations.
Had these at the fire station just over the hill from where I lived growing up. For years you would hear it go off when the fire trucks rolled. It was meant as a call to action for any firefighters in the area. And to alert the public of an emergency situation. They also tested it weekly on the weekends for about 10 min. Very loud, no way to mistake what it is.
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What did Cleveland do that was so horrible they'd get nuked by Iceland?!
In the valley of West Virginia, we have a ton of chemical processing plants. As a result, as kids, we had chemical emergency shelter in place training, where these sirens would be tested, and we'd line up in the inside hallways if the school.
We have an old one in town that used to be used to call all the volunteer firemen to the station.
The town i use to live in used a Federal siren to call it's firefighters to the station. It used one setting for the firefighters, and another for tornadoes.
In oak ridge we have these but there for nukes 😅
"Go inside" 😂🤣 in Okieland when a tornada siren goes off most people go outside
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It took me a couple of rewatches to get the poles joke. I was a cable TV installer and had my own fear of the Poles
Ours go off as a test every Saturday at noon in the summer. Once as a kid I was out walking along the back forty fenceline and I heard the siren. Must be lunchtime, I thought, but it seemed a bit late. Then I realized it was a weekday and ran the fastest half-mile of my life!
I have heard these in multiple states. Once for a tornado, once as a general warning due to something local, once as a test and another time as an "oops, it was accidentally triggered while doing maintenance"
Had those in my home town for the fire departments. It's was all volunteer there so the sires would get them moving without having to make dozens of phone calls
South Williamsport- Williamsport pa sirens ring about once every other day
I've found my new favorite channel 😅
But ease off on my freight trains... "Them's FIGHT'en Words!" Love my trains and models.
In the small NE Iowa town I used to live in, the sirens go off every day at 6pm. Every. Damn. Day. The house I lived in at the time was only 96 feet away from the thing.
Thats pretty cool! You're so accurate and your humor catches me off guard every time
Last summer, the town hall nearby would set em off at 2 AM for a few nights in a row, I never figured out why or if it was a weird malfunction
We got those for the nuclear power plants around my home town, Chattanooga TN. They test them on the first Wednesday of each month at noon. There is one at the back of the playground at the elementary school. Asking for clarification on what we should do if it ever goes off, for the real thing. Got met with a lot of blank stares as a young student. 😂 Thanks for this clarification!
Where I live, they use these to alert volunteer firefighters. Coming from the Midwest originally, my heart skips a little when they sound one off.
As an emergency manager, thank you for getting this information out there!
Happy to help :)
As a Texan, I'll have you know that im going out on my back porch.
My town uses ours to summom the firefighters.
The town where my Grand parents lived had a siren for the mine workers...
It went off 4 time per day, M-F...
8am to begin work
12:30 to start lunch
1:30 to end lunch
5pm to go home...
Hey, thats a Federal Signal 2T22! One of the best outdoor warning sirens ever made. Their haunting minor third musical interval is impossible to ignore, especially in the rising and falling "attack" signal. Good catch!
That joke you started up with has to be in ur top 5 funniest 😭 never change brother
we have this exact model where i live, going to the basement would be the worst thing... because ours is for flood warning...lol
As someone who can relate to what it says, your shirt is amazing.
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I live in an old mining town with a decent amount of tourism we have a siren go off at 8am 12 and 6pm for the old shift changes. I work at a pizza place and every once in a while someone will come in asking if that’s a tornado siren and then we get to explain that it’s just a part of the history of the town
The air raid siren sat ontop of the Montgomery Ward building where I live. I'm old enough to remember that gut wrenching wail when they tested it.
Around here (northeastern Pennsylvania) these sirens are used to summon volunteer firefighters. We'd have spent a lot of time in the basement without any additional information with this advice.
this was the fire alert in our little town. whenever there was a fire the siren goes off... until 2012 then they just sent out text messages to the volunteers
“They know what they did”😂
Could also be the sawmills shift horn. Heard one go off in a small town in rural Florida and I started going inside and my friends who lived out there looked at me funny. Obviously that's how they let each other know that a shift is ending and to coming for lunch.
Only ones of these we have in Connecticut any more are to call the volunteer firemen to the station. Doesn't stop it from making me wanna start digging a hole for cover, any time I hear one go off though.
Love his t-shirt as well
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I grew up in a small town on the Nebraska/Kansas border in Colorado. Never once seen a tornado myself, but damn if I don't remember hearing that howl. It was only ever for quick tests, or wind, I suspect. But it always creeped me out.
In small towns around here, they sound at noon every Wednesday. That was the old civil defense test schedule. Now, the state mandates testing at certain times for the "All Hazards Alert" network, but the Wednesday at noon tradition persists.
Remember to turn off the furnace/air conditioning.
I grew up near Chemical Valley, and the sirens there are for use in the event of an accident at a refinery.
I love this guy's wit