tsunami alert

mollyL · 03-28-2008, 02:11 PM

As I sit at my computer desk the town tsunami alert is going off as it always does on the last Friday of the month. The alarm is a single note going up and down the scale. The all-clear signal is their version of Big Ben playing the hours. This is something set up just a few years ago and although it's never been used for any alert, it gives those who need it some kind of assurance. Does anyone else have some kind of alert that your "founding fathers" have tested regularly? What is it called?

**Jason** · 03-28-2008, 02:38 PM

No alerts here in Fl. We can pretty much tell when a hurricane is coming. And unless you are unintelligent or special circumstances apply, you can usually get out of the way, fairly easily.

In New York, I lived close enough to a Nuclear Power plant that we had a signal thingy on a post down the street. But never heard it even so much as beep.

Green-Moo · 03-30-2008, 11:19 AM

No tsunami or hurricane warnings here, though we have a hospital (prison!) for the criminally insane not too far away & it has a siren to signal break outs which it tests every Monday morning.

Ashlar2006 · 03-30-2008, 03:10 PM

No tsunami warning , but the city fire siren goes off at 9:45 every night for the curfew of those kids under 16 . Not that the curfew is enforced .

mbtaluka · 03-30-2008, 09:22 PM

No warnings in our area too, didn't hear any information or alerts too. Not a single warning of any kind in our area.

mollyL · 04-02-2008, 03:15 PM

Thanks for all of your responses. I certainly would want some sort of alarm if I lived close to a criminally insane hospital! The curfew alarm reminded me of when I was a kid in LA every night a TV station (can't remember which one)played a tape of a man with a very deep and impressive voice say:"Parents, it's ten o'clock. Do you know where your children are?" Funny the memories that are evoked!

Green-Moo · 04-04-2008, 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by mollyL

I certainly would want some sort of alarm if I lived close to a criminally insane hospital!

It's the hospital that housed the Yorkshire Ripper!

The alarm was set up in the 1950s after an inmate escaped & mudered a local girl.

Ashlar2006 · 04-04-2008, 10:08 AM

Weird you mentioned the Yorkshire Ripper , I was just reading about Peter Sutcliffe and supposedly how he was only a copycat .

When I was a teen , we used to live close to a Federal prison and they had a public alarm when there was an escape . I can't believe I forgot about that .

mollyL · 04-04-2008, 02:55 PM

The Yorkshire Ripper! Wow! Glad they added the alarm, but why do they wait to do it after a poor soul was killed. And I hope the fences are extra high!

Green-Moo · 04-05-2008, 03:30 AM

It also housed some very nasty women too, but they shut the women's section last year.

When the alarm goes off, local schools go onto red alert and they set up a roadblock around the nearest village. We actually lived miles away when I was at school, but because the hospital is set on sort of moor land it's possible to get an awfully long way from it cross country without ever coming across a town, then pop up in the village.

Just as a point of interest, it used to house Dr William Chester Minor, the former US Army physician who spent 38 years in the hospital after killing a man outside his house in London after going insane. He was a major contributor to the first Oxford English Dictionary whilst a resident.

03-28-2008, 02:11 PM	#1
mollyL Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 104 Lodge:	tsunami alert As I sit at my computer desk the town tsunami alert is going off as it always does on the last Friday of the month. The alarm is a single note going up and down the scale. The all-clear signal is their version of Big Ben playing the hours. This is something set up just a few years ago and although it's never been used for any alert, it gives those who need it some kind of assurance. Does anyone else have some kind of alert that your "founding fathers" have tested regularly? What is it called?

03-30-2008, 03:10 PM	#4
Ashlar2006 Masonic Mafia Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Ky Posts: 4,162 Lodge: Blog Entries: 3	No tsunami warning , but the city fire siren goes off at 9:45 every night for the curfew of those kids under 16 . Not that the curfew is enforced . __________________ It is such a beautiful day , now watch some idiot screw it up !!!

04-04-2008, 10:08 AM	#8
Ashlar2006 Masonic Mafia Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Ky Posts: 4,162 Lodge: Blog Entries: 3	Weird you mentioned the Yorkshire Ripper , I was just reading about Peter Sutcliffe and supposedly how he was only a copycat . When I was a teen , we used to live close to a Federal prison and they had a public alarm when there was an escape . I can't believe I forgot about that . __________________ It is such a beautiful day , now watch some idiot screw it up !!!

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03-28-2008, 02:38 PM	#2
Jason Guard Dog 2012 Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Florida Posts: 3,126 Lodge:	No alerts here in Fl. We can pretty much tell when a hurricane is coming. And unless you are unintelligent or special circumstances apply, you can usually get out of the way, fairly easily. In New York, I lived close enough to a Nuclear Power plant that we had a signal thingy on a post down the street. But never heard it even so much as beep.

03-30-2008, 11:19 AM	#3
Green-Moo Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 88 Lodge:	No tsunami or hurricane warnings here, though we have a hospital (prison!) for the criminally insane not too far away & it has a siren to signal break outs which it tests every Monday morning.

03-30-2008, 09:22 PM	#5
mbtaluka Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 2 Lodge:	No warnings in our area too, didn't hear any information or alerts too. Not a single warning of any kind in our area.

04-02-2008, 03:15 PM	#6
mollyL Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 104 Lodge:	Thanks for all of your responses. I certainly would want some sort of alarm if I lived close to a criminally insane hospital! The curfew alarm reminded me of when I was a kid in LA every night a TV station (can't remember which one)played a tape of a man with a very deep and impressive voice say:"Parents, it's ten o'clock. Do you know where your children are?" Funny the memories that are evoked!

04-04-2008, 02:55 PM	#9
mollyL Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 104 Lodge:	The Yorkshire Ripper! Wow! Glad they added the alarm, but why do they wait to do it after a poor soul was killed. And I hope the fences are extra high!

04-05-2008, 03:30 AM	#10
Green-Moo Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 88 Lodge:	It also housed some very nasty women too, but they shut the women's section last year. When the alarm goes off, local schools go onto red alert and they set up a roadblock around the nearest village. We actually lived miles away when I was at school, but because the hospital is set on sort of moor land it's possible to get an awfully long way from it cross country without ever coming across a town, then pop up in the village. Just as a point of interest, it used to house Dr William Chester Minor, the former US Army physician who spent 38 years in the hospital after killing a man outside his house in London after going insane. He was a major contributor to the first Oxford English Dictionary whilst a resident.