[BC] Disaster preparedness

[Mike McCarthy]

I know of at least two towns in metro Chicago which do that now.

MM

> ------ 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
> 
> 
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>From my traveling acount...