Posted: 12/4/2010 3:47:20 PM EDT
Anyone else get kinda freaked out when they hear the EBS tones? It sends chills up my spine... especially when listening to the radio, and it cuts out and those tones drop....
It's like WTF! Oh... It's only a test! 
One day that shit is going to be real.....  Tones will drop.... followed by "The Bodies..........Of the dead...... have returned to life....and attacking the living....."
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Quoted: Every time I hear it I mute everything and stop whatever I'm doing. Shit gets real for 10 seconds until they tell me it's a test.Anyone else get kinda freaked out when they hear the EBS tones? It sends chills up my spine... especially when listening to the radio, and it cuts out and those tones drop.... It's like WTF! Oh... It's only a test! One day that shit is going to be real..... Tones will drop.... followed by "The Bodies..........Of the dead...... have returned to life....and attacking the living....."STLMO also has a warning system that's broadcast through loud speakers. It begins with the tornado sirens firing off, which has caused me to bite holes in my chair with my butthole on a number of occasions. |
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Every time I hear it I mute everything and stop whatever I'm doing. Shit gets real for 10 seconds until they tell me it's a test.
Anyone else get kinda freaked out when they hear the EBS tones? It sends chills up my spine... especially when listening to the radio, and it cuts out and those tones drop....
It's like WTF! Oh... It's only a test!
One day that shit is going to be real..... Tones will drop.... followed by "The Bodies..........Of the dead...... have returned to life....and attacking the living....."
STLMO also has a warning system that's broadcast through loud speakers. It begins with the tornado sirens firing off, which has caused me to bite holes in my chair with my butthole on a number of occasions. 
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Every time I hear it I mute everything and stop whatever I'm doing. Shit gets real for 10 seconds until they tell me it's a test.
Anyone else get kinda freaked out when they hear the EBS tones? It sends chills up my spine... especially when listening to the radio, and it cuts out and those tones drop....
It's like WTF! Oh... It's only a test!
One day that shit is going to be real..... Tones will drop.... followed by "The Bodies..........Of the dead...... have returned to life....and attacking the living....."
STLMO also has a warning system that's broadcast through loud speakers. It begins with the tornado sirens firing off, which has caused me to bite holes in my chair with my butthole on a number of occasions. I like the other avi more better.... 
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It certainly grabs my attention.
I've only heard one EAS activation that was not a test - for a tornado warning - which will get your adrenaline going. Yesterday something vaguely similar grabbed my attention - as I was driving through Keene, NH, an ambulance passed me, flashing lights and siren going. Then a minute later another one passed. After a couple more minutes, a third one passed me. Fifteen minutes later, driving South on I-91 in Vermont, I saw a succession of another three or four ambulances headed in the opposite direction, clearly coming up from Massachusetts. So, by that time I was guessing that there must have been a mass casualty incident of some sort, that was larger than the local responders could handle by themselves, but I had no clue what it might be - my car radio is busted (bad move on my part to leave it in that condition without fixing it) - ticking off the possibilities in my mind, could it have been a problem at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in that area, or perhaps a plane crash or Amtrak derailment, or a bad accident, or a fire, or what... Found out later that it was a bus crash a couple exits North on I-91, luckily with very few serious injuries. But it was a wakeup call to improve my situational awareness and emergency comm capabilities in my car... |
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I hate hearing it because it is usually an Amber alert. Kidnapped child alert:
http://www.amberalert.gov/ AMBER Alerts are distributed via commercial radio stations, satellite radio, television stations, and cable TV by the Emergency Alert System and NOAA Weather Radio[4][5] (where they are termed "Child Abduction Emergency" or "Amber Alerts"). The alerts are also issued via e-mail, electronic traffic-condition signs, the LED billboards which are located outside of newer Walgreens locations,[6] along with the LED/LCD signs of billboard companies such as Clear Channel Outdoor, CBS Outdoor and Lamar,[7] or through wireless device SMS text messages. Those interested in subscribing to receive AMBER Alerts in their area via SMS messages can visit Wireless Amber Alerts, which are offered by law as free messages.  In some states, the display scrollboards in front of lottery terminals are also used. The decision to declare an AMBER Alert is made by each police organization which investigates each of the abductions. Public information in an AMBER Alert usually consists of the name and description of the abductee, a description of the suspected abductor, and a description and license plate number of the abductor's vehicle, if available.
Children in pain is one thing that makes me
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I hate hearing it because it is usually an Amber alert. Kidnapped child alert: http://www.amberalert.gov/ AMBER Alerts are distributed via commercial radio stations, satellite radio, television stations, and cable TV by the Emergency Alert System and NOAA Weather Radio[4][5] (where they are termed "Child Abduction Emergency" or "Amber Alerts"). The alerts are also issued via e-mail, electronic traffic-condition signs, the LED billboards which are located outside of newer Walgreens locations,[6] along with the LED/LCD signs of billboard companies such as Clear Channel Outdoor, CBS Outdoor and Lamar,[7] or through wireless device SMS text messages. Those interested in subscribing to receive AMBER Alerts in their area via SMS messages can visit Wireless Amber Alerts, which are offered by law as free messages. In some states, the display scrollboards in front of lottery terminals are also used. The decision to declare an AMBER Alert is made by each police organization which investigates each of the abductions. Public information in an AMBER Alert usually consists of the name and description of the abductee, a description of the suspected abductor, and a description and license plate number of the abductor's vehicle, if available.
Children in pain is one thing that makes me Interesting..... I've never heard it for an Amber Alert....Good Idea 'tho! |
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I've had that happen 2 times.
The first was hearing air sirens at 3 am on a clear, hot summer night and it turned out that a downtown chemical facility had release a potentially dangerous chemical (it wasnt). The second, I was driving to work at 5 am listening to the radio and that buzzer comes on out of the blue and downtown Cincinnati is too my right and I'm thinking "don't look at the flash and can I pull over fast enouigh to get behind the concrete barrier". It certainly wakes you up........... |
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Yeah, the tones make my heart stop beating until the "just a test" comes through. Another peeve is the sirens here at the fire departments. I am from Northwest Tennessee and when the siren goes off you start looking for cover because a tornado is inbound. Imagine my surprise when everyone is laughing at my freaking out the first time that happened. They sound the air raid sirens here to call in the volunteer firemen for one reason or another.
The last time the bars and tones came across on the television there was a tornado warning, and I chose to ignore it. Then it came across the weather band on my radio. I figured two warnings was a sign to bust a move. |
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When I lived on San Onofre housing, Camp Pendleton, the sirens at the nuke plant went off once.
It was about 2:30 AM  Sounded like death and it was scary as hell.
Evacuation plan was for you to drive down I-5 to Del Mar. Right fucking past the plant. We stayed home and found out the next day it was a test. Who the fuck tests at 2:30 AM? |