Have you heard nationwide alarms?

No nationwide weather alerts here as only local weather effects us. It is almost always regarding tornadoes, severe thunderstorms, and in the winter bad winter snow storms including blizzards and ice. At this point it is nothing regarding wars, or anything else. But I am not sure we are all talking about the same things. I am not talking about phone or tv alerts. Every spring usually in March we have tornado sirens going of on one single day as a test to make sure everything is working. Beyond that, every Monday, the tornado siren goes off at 10am as a test. If these sirens would be for anything else, we would be given also tv announcements. The only thing here that we get for missing children is on our phones.

@dya80dya never wrong to have them. Rather have an not need than not have and need.

Here it's unusual to hear them.

@dya80dya iI have never heard anything like that before.

Here it's unusual to hear these.

Here it's unusual.

Yes, they can be used for tornadoes too. They want to prepare us for anything.

@dya80dya They test them every year here, in France it was every month!

Maybe they will start to test them more often. This was the first time when I heard them.

These alarms are useful when something happens.

@dya80dya Yes, they are.

@dya80dya I don't think they use them for tornadoes. They typically use sirens for those. I think it is just if the main broadcasting system can't be used for some reason..downed towers or something.

I think they will test the alarms here once a month too. We don't have tornadoes or other problems, we never needed those alarms.

@dya80dya Yeah. One night, the area's emergency broadcast system decided to send out an Amber alert, at three in the morning. It woke up and scared a lot of people.

It's not common to hear these alarms here. We receive those severe weather alerts on our phones and they are so loud and scary.

They check to see if they are working.

It's true. Until now they ignored the alarms.

@dya80dya This is a dangerous attitude. What if there really is a life threat? Nobody would respond.

@dya80dya Yes, it is normal.

I think it's normal to test them once in a while.

Yes, here they just started to test them. We always had them, but they weren't used because nothing happened.

@dya80dya It doesn't matter here if anything happens or not. They test them without fail, every Tuesday. I'm glad that they keep them in good repair.

No, this is why I was surprised. It's the first time when I hear these loud alarms.