Tornado sirens going off on cloudless day?

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Was at my desktop doing work when I heard our local sirens going off...one slight problem...there's not a cloud in the sky, and the county-wide siren test day is ALWAYS on Tuesday during the tornado season. Is this a minor 9/9/99 glitch?

-- TM (mercier7@pdnt.com), September 09, 1999

Answers

where you do you live?

-- tt (cuddluppy@yahoo.com), September 09, 1999.

Champaign county, in east central Illinois. The tests are supposed to be on Tuesdays at 10am. Not this morning!!

-- TM (mercier7@pdnt.com), September 09, 1999.

Don't ask us. Call your local sheriff or something and ask. But please report back. Thanks.

-- Linda (lwmb@psln.com), September 09, 1999.

That has happened a lot around here in the past couple of months,and I found out,by listning to the police scanner,it happens whenever there is a surge or break in the electric,it some how triggers the sirens.

-- cath (cymchenry@seidata.com), September 09, 1999.

hey i live in illinois too and have heard those all week here .....................whats up

-- andie (y2k@themidwest.com), September 09, 1999.


The sirens are probably the remnants of the old civil defense system. They used to sound them here every Wednesday at noon, but stopped them in this area about twenty years ago. I was working graveyard shift and it used to get me every week. I'd wake up with a start and go "oh sh-t" and then I'd recall what day it was. Marvelous alarm clock, but hard on the heart.

-- chairborne commando (what-me-worry@armageddon.com), September 09, 1999.

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