What if it Snows?

For the first hour... Lol

 

Lot more fun to supervise a couple of high school studs that are trying to make a game out of it.

 

We have those every wed at noon sharp you can usually set the watch by them. Most of them have gone modern. Digital modern.

I am at the edge of one in particular that saw a EF3 destroy the town of Beebe in 1999 and wrecked and killed people and hurt others (Who left slabs behind never to return to rebuild... particularly those who were spiritually broken by losing a baby in one case etc.) That one was restored last year and returned to it's rightful place, a older driven siren with a bass register. The sound is like really close to the old Hemi driven Sirens from the 60's

Comprehensive Hemi Driven siren (This is indeed a V8 Hemi engine big block driving at full all out power 6 major outputs. You are able to hear this thing 20+ miles, Burn fog off 6 miles in the morning and SOMETIMES set trees on fire if close enough.



This one is one where you can hear the engine fire up and settle, then the power take off is put in manually (In the 50's Father used to say when he heard that thing CRANK up on the roof of the school people were already moving) and you can tell that the operator being in a confined space put a sort of a gag on the engine RPM's to keep from hurting people and himself near it. It's trying to sound but never really allowed to go all out.



There is one I kind of get a little emotional still, Ive been hearing Hemis and being deaf etc dont get the full effect sometimes. But with the right settings on that one speaker set I have in the room I can clearly hear this thing allowed to all out full power run. It has that edge to it that affects me.



As a side note, Arkansas treats Tornado Siren rise to high note and stay at that note. It usually if is tracking a tornado visually via LEO etc then a second and if necessary a third blast, I think 3 minutes each. The third blast of single note is important (Searcy AR uses a high-low French type that really grabs my attention, which I hate... I hear it in my sleep which is why I love that old bass one... (Later) After the third blast is complete and tornadoes still walk the earth, it will crank up howl for 10 seconds and then fall down to a pernament dull bass roar that wont stop until either the power grid is smashed or the tornados have passed and all clear it could take 30 minutes or more, And did.

There is a attack version of sound a high rise in volume and pitch and a drop down in both volume and pitch, repeat over and over. The problem with American Attack Alerts in the Civil Defense days of teh 60's and 70s as carefully taught to us kids is that if we heard it we need to do certain things really fast.

Today by the time NORAD confirms and establises track A variety of other very interested parties flash traffic to US President within roughly 3 minutes. Theoratically a sub launch with a Sunburn, Onyx, Sapphire or similar missiles in that family can come out of Norfolk Chesapeake Bay and reach the entire US Government to make it all go away before he President gets the word. You filter the communications down to Primary Broadcasters who finally get the alerts out to the civilians. The problem is the time process consuming. Assuming Missiles from Russia over the pole in 30 minutes Our missiles pass theirs on the way. and we will have about 4 to minutes warning at best and 2 minutes at worse if at all.

This siren the night of the tornado outbreak in 1999 that saw 50+ tornados in a few hours, many of which did damage and hurt, killed people. One of the few times RonnyDowdy Inc Dispatchers told me drop that load and come home to white county and see if I still had a house or my people at that time. We were about a month from marrying or so, pending possible employment changes due to warnings previously from spending too much courting on the phone. (You can courting or you can drive. Not both... One of the few times I was late on a number of loads and you can imagine the rest of the story... what a time in life that was. Not too many people have that happen. I was a reliable warrior and meet my wife and *(FLOPS) get all stupid and doofus unable to handle the loads. *Shrugs..

Anyway this school system was fixing to have both a afternoon evening assembly and a big game that would have had 2000 attending if not more. The twister came through the school complex wrecking the place. The school ssystem did however get word as it was a county or two away *We have a FM radio network that kills programming and does nothing but yammer about where it's at right now like a hound dog. So they canceled everything, turned away a minimum of 2000 if not more than 4000. I cannot tell you the joy they had in that area with so many saved. The entire complex was leveled with very small exceptions.



One more edit.

Victory siren series, a phamplet with technical information for those who love to geek out on it.

The striking tidbit is that it likes to generate in the order of about 6 PSI above atmosphere pressure right there in the open. When you consider what it takes to fill a bulk tanker with air to 6 PSI and then fight to get it up to 15... It's incredible.

VictorySiren™

 

I saw mine.

I rent a log splitter for a day of splitting. About a 20 ton. It's beautiful. Takes a year to cure. Then you best burn it before the bugs take over and rot that pile.

 

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See the way my porch is framed up, enclosing it for heat wouldn’t work unless we redid it all


And there’s no way to store lawnmowers below it either

 

Ugh oh