Air Raid Sirens

DriftingRain · 18-12-2003 03:37AM

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 · 18-12-2003 03:57AM

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 · 18-12-2003 02:14PM

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 · 18-12-2003 02:33PM

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

Cabaal · 18-12-2003 09:26PM

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 · 18-12-2003 10:11PM

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?

Air Raid Sirens

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