In other news... This had to happen. I couldn't get the damn lid off. Knifed it, gangster style.
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There has to be a historical reason for this...find out and write an essay so this can be on the test!
Half of my dinner sucked. So I'm gonna have ice cream.
I just Googled noon whistles. The quick search said that they usually were in factory towns, and it signified a lunch break. This town hasn't really been a factory town ever, but this was a huge mining region back in the 1800s. Could be something that started then and has just continued for today. I found a story of one town in Vermont, I believe, that said it just continues its sirens for nostalgic purposes only.
Sitting here watching tornado warnings popping up all around me.
I think we found the same website!
Breaking news bulletin: Over the weekend, I had some unexpected, financial pixie dust fly in my direction. Out of the blue, my MIL told me that she was going to pay for a Disney vacation for me!!! I was absolutely stunned. She knew our bills had increased this past year (yet, no different than everyone else I know ...).
I had not planned to go away to WDW until next year, and now I'm going this Friday for 4 nights/5 days. I'm psyched! (DH doesn't go, he's not a fan of WDW. That's o.k. though, because WDW is one place I don't mind going solo at all—done it a number of times over the years. It's always fun!)
Sometimes I make an offensive joke. The loss in followers never really correlated with those tweets though.
Our sirens are only tested a few times a year. I would not want to live where they went off daily.
Rotations around us. (knock on wood not on us!!) We're just waiting for the all clear....which may not happen before 11 pm.
My mom and daughter are trying to sleep. Staying in contact with my sister in next town over who actually has a storm shelter next to their barn . (we couldn't get there before weather hit)
You get used to it, and most of the time I don't hear it anyway when I'm inside. The students who come here from Chicago think it's some kind of sorcery. Although they have problems adjusting to small-town life to begin with.
Have I mentioned I hate the sound of tornado sirens.
Rotations around us. (knock on wood not on us!!) We're just waiting for the all clear....which may not happen before 11 pm.
You could try your city's website, but Pittsburgh (assuming you are in the actual city and not outside) probably wouldn't have them. Too many other alarms going off, and I'm assuming you don't have volunteer fire fighters who need the sirens to go off to know when they need to head to the station.
Most of the time the warnings turn out to be nothing except some high winds, heavy rains, and lightning, but you never know. When the sirens go off we are alarmed, but don't go to the basement unless it's looking pretty bad out. Might not be the safest thing to do, but it's what we do. We usually listen to the police scanner and weather reports on local news stations when it's tornado weather.
Of course she did.
Pretty sure most metropolitan areas have their tornado siren tied in with the old Civil Defense Air Raid sirens. At least they are here.
