Weather
phaidenbauer • 16 Sept 2024 •
The weather has been crazy the last couple of days. It started with heavy rain and switched to wind speeds up to 180 kilometres per hour for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Today it looks like everything is back to normal. But several places got flooded here in Austria. Luckily, I’m living quite high, and no larger rivers are nearby, but it wasn’t too long ago when something blocked our drain on one of the entryways to the apartment house and part of the bicycle basement was flooded.
Luckily, we’ve got a pretty good alarming system (sirens on every fire house) and since every small village has a voluntary fire brigade, every village has one of those sirens. I don’t know the patterns they do exactly, but I know if it isn’t Saturday 12pm, when they test the system, something bad is going on.
Since yesterday another secondary alarming system was put in place, and as far as I know, it basically works like the Amber Alert system in the US (something something cell broadcast). I heard some people complaining about the loud sounds their phones were making.
That’s when I know we are doomed as humanity, as that’s probably one of the highest forms of ignorance if there is a statewide alarm (warning about the bad weather conditions) and you complain because you’re getting interrupted by it. I wonder what they would do if an evacuation alarm would come over that new alerting way?
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Well, the testing sound on Saturday is only a few seconds long. Basically, the sirens begin to spin up and after a few seconds at peak they slow down again. Alarm stuff is either longer or multiple up and downs.
https://youtu.be/WNqnbf-Ir6U?si=xd2_JiYn8XLquNCN Here is a whole playlist 🙈
The alerts I love are the Air Quality Alerts. Am I supposed to stop breathing?
Sounds like you’re getting a load of slightly unnecessary alerts over there? I wonder what will come along over here when the system fully works.
Let’s hope a critical emergency never occurs precisely at 12PM on a Saturday in your area. I’m fine with a phone alarm about a weather event, but I’m still not sure what I’m supposed to do with an amber alert. Commit the license plate to memory and immediately go out and drive around looking for the vehicle??