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The last two places I’ve lived choose a specific Wednesday of the month to test, and always at noon.
They still test in rain, so every so often you still feel that mild panic again until you look at the clock.
Thunderstorms on test days are always more fun.
Every so often while working retail we would get an out-of-towner in the store while that happens.
They lose their shit and panic.
One time at a sports store, a guy heard the sirens at the checkout counter and just left the cart and booked it for his car. I guess he figured he would outrun anything coming at him…
We just get noon at the first Monday of the month. But it’s an air alarm, not tornado.
To be fair tornados are notoriously bad at keeping apointments
Coastal area checking in, same thing for the tsunami alarms. I had some good fun with a tourist when, after they asked what the droning sound was, I replied with “Oh, it’s just the tsunami alarm” and then didn’t react to it. They were visibly nervous, so I waited a sec and then said “It’s just a test 😁”
What’s a real mindfuck is going from one place to the other. SF tsunami alarms are on Tuesdays. So you have a brief moment of panic, then a brief moment of calm, and then a brief moment of EXTREME PANIC when you realize what day it is, and then calm again when you realize what state you’re in
LMAO, they test the sirens once a month on Wednesday, for anyone unfamiliar.
(Edited, I live real close to one, but I don’t really pay attention to the day or frequency. Tons of trains around too, you learn to drown it out.)
I lived in a small farm town on the Mississippi river in the Midwest for years. Their siren would literally go off at 6pm every, single, day. (Albeit very briefly) Something about letting people outside know it was time to head home for supper.
Sundown towns… were all-white municipalities or neighborhoods in the United States… The term came into use because of signs that directed “colored people” to leave town by sundown.
The towns of Minden and Gardnerville in Nevada had an ordinance from 1917 to 1974 that required Native Americans to leave the towns by 6:30 p.m. each day. A whistle, later a siren, was sounded at 6 p.m. daily, alerting Native Americans to leave by sundown. In 2021, the state of Nevada passed a law prohibiting the appropriation of Native American imagery by the mascots of schools, and the sounding of sirens that were once associated with sundown ordinances. Despite this law, Minden continued to play its siren for two more years, claiming that it was a nightly tribute to first responders.
Midwesterner that gets noon on Friday tests here. I got the joke tho.
But what if a tornado actually appears at that time?
The image says what happens. It can’t hurt you, it’s against the rules.
