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I'm surprised the sirens aren't tested more frequently. In Denmark we have a national system of sirens. They are tested once a year at a specific date and time
by sorenbs 9y ago
I'm surprised the sirens aren't tested more frequently.
In Denmark we have a national system of sirens. They are tested once a year at a specific date and time. In the cold war era they used to test them every Wednesday at noon, but it has been scaled down since then :-)
- azernik 9y agoThe US has no national siren system; there are just state and local ones. I've heard siren tests every once in a while living in San Francisco, but there's zero public education about their meaning or appropriate responses. (This false alarm was a push alert sent to cell phones. What about people who don't have a cell phone on them when the alert comes? ... good luck)
- roywiggins 9y agoIt played over TV broadcasts as well, I think. Probably went to radio, but I haven't seen anything written about that.
- dmix 9y agoIt was also on radio and TV.
- knz 9y agoThey get tested monthly here in Minnesota (at 1300 on the first Wednesday of the month). They are primarily for tornadoes rather than nuclear weapons though.
- Banthum 9y agoIn Tokyo they test the public emergency speaker system every day. At 5pm they play a 30-second traditional Japanese lullaby. If you ask people, they say it means it's time for children to go home - though as far as I can tell it has nothing to do with actual school schedules. I'm not sure everyone realizes it's actually a warning system.