Frazz by Jef Mallett for June 02, 2018

The weekend is always too short!

Would he rather NOT hear it at all even if there IS a tornado coming?

There’s something about that dog… Half greyhound and half sock puppet.

ours test at noon on the first Wednesday of the month.

Here in Tulsa, the tornado sirens are tested at noon Wednesday if the weather’s nice. The flood sirens are tested at noon on Saturday.

In IL “The sirens are tested the first Tuesday of each month at 10 a.m. The test consists of one minute of a steady tone, one minute of silence, one minute of a wavering tone, two minutes of silence and then a 10 second steady tone.”

If you hear anything different at that time on that day…. Use steps 6 & 7 of the 1970 CD poster parody

6. “…bend over and place your head firmly between between your knees.”

7. “Kiss your butt goodbye.”

7 edited for content

Every day at noon in the town where I grew up. Haven’t thought about that in 60 years! Thanks for the reminder.

When I was growing up, they tested the sirens that warned of something a bit more dangerous than tornadoes.

The town I lived in the Arctic had a noon siren. My house was near the beach where the dog teams were tied up. That would set them off for an hour, rather be stuck in a phone booth with a bag piper.

I seem to remember a daily siren at noon which we called the noon whistle.

In Vancouver we play the first bar of “O Canada” on a steam whistle at noon, and fire a 200 year old cannon at 9:00 pm.

When I was a kid we had a curfew siren at 21h00 in the summer. Children had to clear the streets. The police or any responsible adult could walk you home with a stern look on their face after that time. In the winter, it was dark at 16h00 and minus 20C on a good day, so no need for a curfew.