Air Raid Sirens

bug

I work in the city centre and twice this year I have heard air raid sirens, once during the summer and then again last week. are they testing them? has anyone else heard this?

Sleipnir

Yeah I've heard them a few times.
I believe it's the civil defence testing them.
Course, nobody knows what to do if you hear them going off 'for real'
Just look up and smile I suppose?

Havelock

I hear them too, just imagine what the surface of the sun fells like then blink.

Kold

Originally posted by Kananga
Yeah I've heard them a few times.
I believe it's the civil defence testing them.
Course, nobody knows what to do if you hear them going off 'for real'
Just look up and smile I suppose?

lol reminds me of cedric the entertainer on his set on 'the original kings of comedy'

RUN MOFO RUN!

LoneGunM@n

I've heard them too, but always assumed that they were the fire station alarms!!

p.s. 500 posts ... yah to me :rolleyes:

Retr0gamer

The ones in Swords are from Bristol Myers Squibbs fire alarm. It used to freak me out since they sound like one of the creepy sounds in Silent Hill. And then I ended up working in BMS during the summer. It still sends chills down my spine.

Cake Fiend

I hear them often enough, probably some testing in the barracks in Rathmines.

Victor

They test the one in Cathal Brugha Barracks Rathmines every Friday at ~noon. I suspect the would test others ones also (not sure how many they have). If you hear it any other time, worry.

andrew163

the lunchbreak bell for my school sounds like one of those things........
:rolleyes: Doomsday alarm always means it's time for class

Grom

stop drop roll and cover

Winters

Originally posted by Kananga
Course, nobody knows what to do if you hear them going off 'for real'

Duck and Cover.

If you see a big hflash of white light, duck and cover.
Little jimmeh, what do you do when you see a flash of white light. Yes thats right. Duck and cover.



Remember kids. According the the US Government, in the case of a Nuclear bomb, all you got to do is Duck and Cover and the atomic radiation will just go over you and not harm you*


* not a gurantee.

gerire

If we hear the sirens do we run home and try and dig out our free stash of iodine tablets we got last year?

Victor

Originally posted by gerire
If we hear the sirens do we run home and try and dig out our free stash of iodine tablets we got last year?

They expire next year.

Tivoli

If we hear the sirens do we run home and try and dig out our free stash of iodine tablets we got last year?

i heard that if you take 1 tablet you will be high for half an hour


about the sirens...
one goes off in rathmines everyday at about 12pm, scared the life out a me brother once

sceptre

Originally posted by mukki
i heard that if you take 1 tablet you will be high for half an hour

I heard that it you put it up your, erm, use it as a suppository you'll be high for a whole hour.

Dublin aint exactly a big place, so you'd be doing well to have the time to duck and cover or run home and start eating iodine tablets.

Tivoli

yeah and it would be even harder to run home if you had an iodine tablet up your ass

Grom

if you hear them then cause as much destruction as possibly or wip out your lad and start to beat away mite as well go with a smile on your face

commuterised

I'm allergic to iodine, but I spose it's better than radiation poisoning

Winters

If you hear them start screaming that the world is going to end and that dublin is being attacked by nukes. Run around for a bit screaming "duck and cover" and hide under your desks. You may get repromanded pretty quick by your boss but i'd say its worth it. You would create a bit of a stir.... even more so if you were to do it on Grafton Street during the christmas shopping. Would be krazee, [note the K and double E]

gobby

nah lads. when one of those things go off you just have to be ready!

Walter Ego

There's no need to worry about Dublin being hit by nukes.

Do you know how much they cost?

Havelock

Hum, would be fun to sound one during the Saint Patrick's Day Parade, with a "This is not a drill" announcement.

*Sits back and imagines the carnage*

kano476

this just cracks me up:

IF THERE IS A NUCLEAR BLAST

If there is advanced warning of an attack:

Take cover immediately, as far below ground as possible, though any shield or shelter will help protect you from the immediate effects of the blast and the pressure wave.

If there is no warning:

Quickly assess the situation.
Consider if you can get out of the area or if it would be better to go inside a building to limit the amount of radioactive material you are exposed to.
If you take shelter go as far below ground as possible, close windows and doors, turn off air conditioners, heaters or other ventilation systems. Stay where you are, watch TV, listen to the radio, or check the Internet for official news as it becomes available.
To limit the amount of radiation you are exposed to, think about shielding, distance and time.

haha and your supposed to do this while a nuclear bomb is going off?
the iodine tabs are designed to make ya high so you dont realise whats going on and cant sue the government

fozzle

There's a horn goes off in the docks in Galway every so often, it sounds just like an air-raid siren! Nearly had a heart attack the first time I heard it!:o

gerire

Originally posted by Silent Death
There's no need to worry about Dublin being hit by nukes.

Do you know how much they cost?

We are just worried cause the one that hits us is going to be navigated by some cheap system written in Dublin, sold to a person in turkmekistan or somewhere like that, aimed at Paris, will miss that because of the whole Km's to miles difference and then land square in the centre of Dublin ........

Grom

I take it you have not seen the pictures of hiroshima or naga then.no ****ing builiding withing the blast radius would protect you.and as for radiation well lawl wed all be ****ed tbh

Anima

Actually the tablets are there to do something with some gland in your throat / head area. The radiation affects it and stops you from growing properly or something. I can't really remember everything but my biology teacher told me. There kinda useless really seeing as you have to survive the initial blast.

DriftingRain

We have two different sirens near my house.
One is a tornado...really bad weather siren. Get to a basement or safe place immediately!!!!
The other is the Anniston Army Depot Chemical Siren. In case the Incenarator blows up we know what were suppost to do. :rolleyes:

They test them on the first Wednesday of every month. I hate it, I'll always be scared when they go off then think "Oh YEAH it's the first Wednesday of the month DUHHHHH!"

Victor

Originally posted by DriftingRain
The other is the Anniston Army Depot Chemical Siren. In case the Incenarator blows up we know what were suppost to do.

Die?

seamus

Originally posted by Victor
Die?

Heh, it always makes me laugh when they talk about troops have NBC warfare suits.

If a nuke goes off, you're better off finding someone to 'enjoy' your last few moments before you die then trying to scramble into a suit, before you die anyway.

DriftingRain

Die?

I truly hope not.

If you are in a so many mile radius...I think your toast.
If you live in a county touching St.Clair County(where the depot is) you are to ducktape plastic to your windows and have things ready incase you have to stay there awhile and I think the paper said to stay inside till someone on the radio or TV or knocked on your door telling you it was safe to come out.
Me...i live three counties away but we still have the siren. They say we are fine and that the siren is there to notify us of a problem happening there. No one, I mean No one wanted the incenarator there, but it had to go somewhere and our pushy government wasn't planning on moving it anyhow.:rolleyes:

Hope this somewhat helped ya Victor??

p.s. I hope it stays okay and that I'll not die!

Capt'n Midnight

Originally posted by [-=RaVeN=-]
Actually the tablets are there to do something with some gland in your throat / head area. The radiation affects it and stops you from growing properly or something. I can't really remember everything but my biology teacher told me. There kinda useless really seeing as you have to survive the initial blast.

Iodine / Thyroid etc. It's not a cure for radiation just that taking large doses of Iodine will dilute any radioacitive stuff so you adsorb less radiation.

Q. "what's the point in a four minute warning ?"
A. "some people can run a mile in under four minutes"

Anyone remember the anhydrous ammonia train that used to go through Dublin - white tanks with hemispherical ends and orange stripes - worst case scenario is that would kill almost everything (eg grass) within a quarter of a mile...

gobby

Originally posted by Silent Death

There's no need to worry about Dublin being hit by nukes.

no but britan could be hit and im sure that we would get some of the fallout.

Capt'n Midnight

I seem to remember that there are NATO air bases in NI in addition to the Army - so lots of legitimate targets ...

Cabaal

Originally posted by bug
I work in the city centre and twice this year I have heard air raid sirens, once during the summer and then again last week. are they testing them? has anyone else heard this?

In my home town I've heard them go off a number of times it turns out the siren is belong to the fire station and before the firemen were given radios it was used to notify them of a fire.

The switch was on the wall outside the firestation and many saturday nights drunk people on there way home would set it off, which as you can imagine was fun.

Sadly they knocked the old firestation this year.

Barry Aldwell

Originally posted by DriftingRain
They test them on the first Wednesday of every month. I hate it, I'll always be scared when they go off then think "Oh YEAH it's the first Wednesday of the month DUHHHHH!"

What happens if there's a tornado or the incinerator blows on the first wednesday of the month?