Does the EAS (Emergency Alert System) creep you out?
 

Sometimes Mother Nature is a bitch, so we've all heard something similar to this:



I've always found it to be deeply unsettling for some reason.

In fact I've slammed on the brakes while driving because this scared the shit out of me so much when it's come on the radio. It's also part of the reason I don't see a need to have cable TV...or listen to the radio very much at all. And have disabled extreme weather alerts (and Amber alerts) on my phone.

What is it about the EAS that is so creepy?

Does it creep you out?

Anyone who lives in the midwest has heard the EAS too many times to count. Doesn't really bother me, although I don't have cable so I never really hear it anymore. I rely on tornado sirens, which I also tend to ignore.

Not so much that, but the alarms that go off from the tornado-siren towers. You know things are getting real when that happens. Oddly, a recurring dream of mine has to do with tornadoes, but I'm not really scared of them.

I haven't heard this warning since monsoon season in Arizona, but it's never particularly scared me.

Does everyone else have weekly tornado siren tests? Just curious. Here they do tests every Friday at 11 am, no matter the season.

No tornadoes here. Ever.

we always had hurricane warnings coming at us in florida and i would get excited as a kid to see the destruction

but rarely did it ever turn into anything serious

and then when it finally did i realized that dealing with hurricanes while staying in concrete dwellings in south florida where there is a sophisticated irrigation system to prevent the kind of tidal surge that new orleans experienced with katrina is mostly just boring as ****, cause they cut off the power for a good 2-3 weeks afterwards

I guess that was moreso directed at people in the U.S., sorry. Still though, it seems like tornados are way more prevalent in the part of the country I live in. I've never heard of them occuring on the West Coast, or internationally for that matter. I guess it boils down to the weather - hot/cold air conditions - that sort of thing. It's just strange to think that they happen here all the time but almost never in other parts of the world. Then again I've only experienced one earthquake in my life and it was minor at that. Never dealt with a hurricane, only the remnants of one.

I didn't even know such a thing existed until this very moment :rofl:

We do get a few tornado watches/warnings per year here in southern Ontario, but they're only ever broadcasted through the media or through our version of the EAS on weather radios.

We never have tornadoes here but we've had two touch down in the LA area in the past six months. Imagine the reactions of the locals, they run for cover like it's WWIII when it's just raining :laughing:.

in florida, over the years, i've heard a million tornado warnings and all that on tv/radio

but i spent a good 20 years there and never personally saw one, i think they were mostly wimpy and sporadic

so i really never took tornadoes all that serious

but if i lived in the midwest, i would for sure. but that always makes me wonder why people live in places like kansas. i know people say "well you have to deal with some kind of storm anywhere," which is true, but it seems like tornadoes are so random and narrowly yet viciously destructive that in order for me to live in tornado territory there'd have to be a pretty compelling incentive drawing me there... and i just don't get that from the midwest in all honesty... except for possibly the more wealthy parts of chicago. but i don't think they spend that much time worrying about tornadoes.

Typhoons are the scariest natural events of all time. If you hear an alarm over any EAS for a tornado, you've got some time. A typhoon? Good luck. You can escape a tornado underground, but you can't escape water in the capacity that typhoons bring.

I remember hearing about snow in LA once and even though it was only a small amount, people ****ing freaked like it was the apocalypse or something.

:laughing: ja I remember that happening even though I didn't live in the area at the time. I think it was 2006 and the west had a huge storm that even dropped some snow in Phoenix.

We get the once a month test on every Tuesday.

Here's a fun fact *cringe*: The tornado sirens you hear today come from a version of a vacuum cleaner motor made by Federal Electric Company, which is now the Federal Signal Corp.

I find the EAS test to be more annoying than creepy.

The nuclear plant sirens always unnerve me. You haven't really lived until you've had one of those go off near you without warning, especially when you're outside or driving.

Doesn't creep me out, but I sleep with the TV so it sure as fuck pisses me off when it wakes me up at 3am over some bull**** hurricane/tornado warning test. Why does it have to be 10x louder then the regular TV?