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Old test (a bet)
Posted by: from the North of Jersey ()
Date: September 25, 2014 05:19PM

Years ago, many, up North, the cities used to test their sirens every Friday at exactly 12noon. Was this done in Southern cities?

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Re: Old test (a bet)
Posted by: no ()
Date: September 25, 2014 05:22PM

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Re: Old test (a bet)
Posted by: Duck N. Cover ()
Date: September 25, 2014 05:24PM

Not on that schedule. It was something like the first and third Thursday of the month for the nuclear air raid sirens around here. Don't recall exactly.

I remember as a kid that they went off by mistake late at night once. Thought for sure that I was done. lol

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Re: Old test (a bet)
Posted by: from the North ()
Date: September 25, 2014 05:29PM

Duck N. Cover Wrote:
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> Not on that schedule. It was something like the
> first and third Thursday of the month for the
> nuclear air raid sirens around here. Don't recall
> exactly.
>
> I remember as a kid that they went off by mistake
> late at night once. Thought for sure that I was
> done. lol


Thanks! In MA. it was every Friday, all the sirens would go off for about 3 mins. I wonder when they stopped it, I was a kid. It was like you said a nuclear test alarm, we had a lot more Emergency Broadcast Test back then also.

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Re: Old test (a bet)
Posted by: graymoose1 ()
Date: September 25, 2014 09:32PM

Same in Michigan

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Re: Old test (a bet)
Posted by: wally ()
Date: September 25, 2014 09:54PM

I'm from Indiana and the tornado sirens are tested every Friday at 11am.

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Re: Old test (a bet)
Posted by: pNGe3 ()
Date: September 26, 2014 12:24AM

In Annandale, VA it was on Wednesday. I think it was close to noon.

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Re: Old test (a bet)
Posted by: Gruntled ()
Date: September 26, 2014 06:56AM

The siren at the police station on North Kings Highway was tested periodically, but I couldn't tell you the schedule. All I know is that I was in elementary school at the times the tests occured. I don't remember when it stopped. My last year at that school was 1970.

Neither the tower nor the police station are there anymore.

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Re: Old test (a bet)
Posted by: former walt whitman'er ()
Date: September 26, 2014 08:23AM

At the old Walt Whitman middle school(originally Mt. Vernon H.S.) they had an air raid siren and it would be tested once a week. I remember the announcement would come over the intercom system and then a few seconds later it would sound off. One of my classes was right next to it and you could watch it spin around when they tested it.

Oh how the good times are gone. Now the school is an Alah Snackbar terrorist training school. Not sure if they moved all their students and staff to their other site in Clifton.

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