Comments on: False Alarms Planned For Sirens https://boiseguardian.com/2008/02/26/false-alarms-planned-for-sirens/ A different slant on the news. Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:07:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: CYCLOPS https://boiseguardian.com/2008/02/26/false-alarms-planned-for-sirens/#comment-7673 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:07:44 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=875#comment-7673 Collateral damage! Evil, but necessary.

]]> By: Gordon https://boiseguardian.com/2008/02/26/false-alarms-planned-for-sirens/#comment-7672 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:00:25 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=875#comment-7672 Yeah, most people haven’t paid any attention to sirens since WWII air raid warnings — and people didn’t pay attention to them for very long cuz of so many false alarms.

One of my favorite news stories quite a few years ago was from Hawaii, where people *do* pay attention to sirens, for good reason: One type of siren means the volcano is blowing, run downhill fast. The other means a tsunami is coming, run uphill fast.
One day, because of a short circuit or something, both sets of sirens went off at once. People in the uplands heard their siren and headed for the shore. People near the shore heard their siren and headed for the hills.
Took officials quit a while to get everybody informed that both sirens were false alarms.
I would have loved to have seen films of the crowds running through each other as they went both directions!

]]> By: Clancy https://boiseguardian.com/2008/02/26/false-alarms-planned-for-sirens/#comment-7671 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:08:36 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=875#comment-7671 Hey, not everyone in the Northend is wacky. Just 99 percent of them.

What happened to testing these once a month on Saturdays?

]]> By: CYCLOPS https://boiseguardian.com/2008/02/26/false-alarms-planned-for-sirens/#comment-7670 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:56:28 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=875#comment-7670 Look at it this way Slim Jim. When we have to worry about the bench flooding, that means the Peoples Republic of the North End has gone bye-bye. Not a completely bad circumstance.

]]> By: slim jim https://boiseguardian.com/2008/02/26/false-alarms-planned-for-sirens/#comment-7669 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:07:48 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=875#comment-7669 lol oh i am so glad not to be living in the north end anymore!!!! when the bench floods THAT’S the day to worry! At least we will have plenty of notice!

]]> By: bert farber https://boiseguardian.com/2008/02/26/false-alarms-planned-for-sirens/#comment-7668 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:19:21 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=875#comment-7668 Mebbe they don’t want to test them during the rain cuz people nmight thuink its an actual flash flood instead of a test. So if there is a flood and you hear the sirens and it’s raining then you would know it’s for real and you’d run for safety…or something like that.

EDITOR NOTE–Which begs the questions:
–How do they know the sirens will work?
–Now that they have asked us media to publich the
press release will anyone know for sure?
–Have you ever called the cops to alert them to a car
alarm?

]]> By: Clancy https://boiseguardian.com/2008/02/26/false-alarms-planned-for-sirens/#comment-7667 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:32:08 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=875#comment-7667 Perfect week to test them, while we have all these guest for the Special Olympics in town. They might think WWIII started.

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