Can you hear the sirens in your house, with the windows closed, TV on, probably kids making noise as well?
Tornado sirens and how kids today are soft
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Can you hear the sirens in your house, with the windows closed, TV on, probably kids making noise as well?
No offense taken but humans are well humans. In a perfect world we wouldn't need slogans like "turn around don't drown" or "when thunder roars go indoors" either. I agree there is range of variability in what sirens are sounded for. Linn county is tornado warnings only. Johnson county is tornado warnings and severe thunderstorm warnings with possible winds over 70 MPH.
Another variability is in places like Linn and Benton counties (not sure about Buchanan and Black Hawk) there is a dual purpose of the sirens with the nuclear power plant and at least at one time they were not owned by the counties but by the power plant. The county could set them off on their own but it makes funding maintenance and upgrades a little more tricky.
Damn right it is.
I agree that people are dumb, but we shouldn't be targeting stuff to them because frankly no matter what we do they will be dumb. At a point you have to leave it up to Darwinism and focus on saving other people.
I guess most of my frustration stems from what basically has seemed like an extreme shelter for everything mentality. Heck you can't even get real radar anymore. I say that as someone whose shelter place is a closet in the garage with the water heater. It isn't somewhere that I can just go. If I want to be able to watch TV coverage I have to be up a level with almost zero shelter. I'm not going to go try and fit in there every time they set the sirens off right now. I also have a cat that I'm watching right now so I would have had to go find the cat and try and stick him in there with me.
It is far from stupid to complain about, because when people ignore it it is a safety issue. As I just said I can't go hide in my shelter spot for everything. I'm fearful of when it will actually be a dangerous situation and I am not alerted to it.
Curious about your "we don't even have real radar anymore" comment.
I see what you mean though on the sheltering front. I don't shelter for everything and I personally don't think it is warranted for most severe thunderstorm warnings. Unless there is wind driven hail or confirmed damage coming towards you I wouldn't worry about sheltering. As far as the cat goes...it's a cat. Our dog will come with us as it never really leaves my side but the cats are on their own. If we have time to grab them great.
The big thing is get the warning via siren, app, TV, Radio etc. Get more info on what is happening and then make a decision. I will say download the TV stations apps or even better if you use a streaming service for TV have their app downloaded and watch on your phone while you are sheltering.
I think it's rare enough that it should be alarming when the siren is going off.
Car alarms are similar for me except more common--when was the last time anyone ran up to a car with the alarm going off because they thought something awful was happening as opposed to being annoyed at the sound?
There was a whole lot of sarcasm in my post. And I’m one who doesn’t have any problem whatsoever if they sound sirens when 60+ mph winds are about to come through. If people don’t take it serious that’s their problem.
Depends where you're at. Where I live, they are based on a tornado warning polygon. So if you hear one, it's for you.
Yep. We heard them go off in the Waveland neighborhood, so we checked to see where the tornado was spotted and then just moved on. Mild inconvenience but I'd rather have it than not.
KCCI used to have their actual radar on their app and website. Now you can't find anything that isn't computer modeled junk. They are general estimates of where the rain is instead of the actual radar.
Oh i 100% take it seriously because I am a functioning adult. I am just saying there's no one forcing others to.
I'm in Waukee and sirens are going off to the west and northwest. No tornado warnings coming up.
Sirens just shut off.
Sirens just shut off.
Eh...the day tornados ripped through Bondurant and Marshalltown, I stood out my front door in Ankeny and saw a prefectly calm day with blue skies. Would have never known the wiser had it not been for sirens.
