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For those of you who never been to Hawaii during the start of a month what kimo55 is trying to say or point out is that on the first work day of the month the Hawaii Civil Defense test the sirens at 11:45 am. These sirens were meant to warn the public of incoming natural disasters like tsumanis or hurricanes. I don't know about flash flooding through. It used to be in the old days there was a different siren tone that signal an incoming attack, people here used to joke that if someone wanted to attack Hawaii, do it during the siren test, no one really paid attention to that.
So this begs the question for those of you who live outside of Hawaii, does your local government use sirens to warn the public of natural disasters or an attack? If so do they test it on a regular basis?
The funny thing... when I first moved here about 14 years ago the first time they went off... I was camping at Hapuna with some other people from the dorms that were also new to Hawaii....
We were tripping out... didn't know what it was!!! We thought another Pearl Harbor or something... We had no radio and cell phones were just starting to p/u but no one had one!!
We didn't find out until we got back to the dorms and started asking questions.
For those of you who never been to Hawaii during the start of a month what kimo55 is trying to say or point out is that on the first work day of the month the Hawaii Civil Defense test the sirens at 11:45 am. These sirens were meant to warn the public of incoming natural disasters like tsumanis or hurricanes. I don't know about flash flooding through. It used to be in the old days there was a different siren tone that signal an incoming attack, people here used to joke that if someone wanted to attack Hawaii, do it during the siren test, no one really paid attention to that.
So this begs the question for those of you who live outside of Hawaii, does your local government use sirens to warn the public of natural disasters or an attack? If so do they test it on a regular basis?
They don't do tests in the downtown Seattle area; however, on the coast where tsunamis might hit they do do regular siren testing and have signs indicating the tsunami evacuation route. For people living on the slopes or on the plains of Mt. Rainier (which is an active but dormant volcano, like Haleakala) they do regular lahar drills to keep people living in the area from being swept away by floods of mud like when Mt. St. Helens erupted. In Seattle proper, the Civil Defense folks do city-wide earthquake drills once a year in April (we get to crawl under our office desks until the wardens come around and give us the all clear signal).
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During my morning constitutional (about 0752-0755,) the TWS tower was making a knocking noise; farther away it sounded like roofers with nail guns shooting too many nails. It stopped and restarted, did this about twice, enough time for me to walk by the tower and look up at it questioningly, then scan the skies for invasion by unknown entities. Saw no missles leaving the mountains or helicopters rising from Wheeler. Also saw no rising waves or water headed for the North Shore.
So here I am, on HT (after searching the web unsuccessfully.) Is this pre-testing for next week's test? Sound check?
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