[BC] Disaster preparedness

[Rich Wood <richwood@pobox.com>]

------ At 07:33 AM 11/8/2005, Mike McCarthy wrote: -------

>As a side story, in 1959 when the White Sox won the pennant, the 
>city blew the sirens to celebrate.  Everyone who wasn't aware of the 
>game's ending thought the area was being bombed....and reacted 
>accordingly.  The question was invariably asked of the Mayor (who is 
>a life long south (pronounced "sah-th") sider about whether the city 
>would do the same this time.  He smiled, then politely said no.

When I was a kid those sirens were called air raid sirens. There was 
a big one at the end of my street. They tested them once a week at 
noon so people wouldn't start drinking the booze stored in their bomb 
shelters. If they went off at any other time you knew something 
serious was going on and it wasn't a celebration.

In some of the mountain towns the sirens were used to call out the 
volunteer fire department.

Rich