With all of this moisture, we are gonna have a summer of lots of mowing and nasty mosquitoes.
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I have the 13WarnMe app, and that's how we got notified. I haven't tried the others.
1 - There is really a place called "White Settlement"? WTF
2 - Attention to detail is top-notch, they even have the "Box Tops Rewards" cutout on the top corner.
We (unfortunately) had to get a whole new HVAC system a month ago (house hit the 10 year old mark this year). Ever since then the house has been running an indoor humidity of between 48-52%. Due to allergies we flip back and forth between AC and Heat, never pulling in outside air or having windows open. Was concerned the humidifier was stuck in the on position but confirmed it's disabled and dry as I set it a month ago.
Assuming it's just the constant rounds of rain we've been getting for the past month.
And you don’t get like the big network alert for a tornado warning? Or an alert from your weather apps? Do you get the big amber alert alerts?
I get amber alerts. I do get some warnings from Weather Channel but seemed like I thought I would get one for tornado warning. I just downloaded the Storm Hunter and 13 warn me apps so I should get blown up with alerts now.
Ed Wilson covered this that night there was tornado warnings all over Des Moines. A lot of these places with really weird names had to do with rail routes. They weren't towns and often times there were no towns around but they still needed to be able to identify where they were, so the conductor would just make **** up. At least that was my interpretation of what he said.
My Alexa's devices ping when the NWS issues a warning. Got one at about ten til 9 last night.
What if you weren't paying attention? The siren clues you in to go look at TV or social media.
Its not meant to be specific alert to tell you if your particular house is going to get destroyed.
Sheesh.
Darwin award. Take out the people who can't understand the purpose of the sirens.
I can't count the number of times that I've heard a siren and it clued me in to check the radar. Literally took me 30 seconds to check the radar. Most of the time, its nothing crazy, but a few times it helped me take cover. I've never been hit with any serious damage, but that doesn't mean I'm going to ignore them going forward. I'd be a complete moron to completely ignore them.
You literally defined the purpose of the sirens. To alert people to pull up their phone or get inside and turn on the TV to see if there is a problem. Thats not a reason that sirens are out of date. That is the LITERAL reason the sirens exist.
I have to be in downtown DSM in the afternoon for a meeting. I'm dreading it now with the weather.
Darwin award or not, if your policy is sounding the sirens for weather that isn't particularly dangerous, you might put more people in more danger than if you did it only for serious threats.
That's weird, because folks up the thread were arguing that the purpose of the sirens is not to turn on the TV or check out your phone, but to seek shelter immediately. Seems like it might be helpful to get our story straight on this one.
I dunno, based upon the Kopelman image on the previous page the 1pm image shows the bad cells kind of by Newton.
You may be OK.
