RochesWorld's Blog

better safe than sorry. it gives you time to secure things around the yard before the storm hits and puts you on alert (just in case).

I already ignore the sirens!!!

no sirens in hermann..never know about missouri, better to warn people, ya never know

Unfortunately, I am torn as to whether or not listen to any sirens that I might hear. We live outside of Edwardsville, and there are no sirens here. I depend upon my skills of watching updrafts and downdrafts more than anything else. The only time the sirens blew in NE meant that you better take cover now - here, it's an entirely different way of thinking. I know many who live in Glen Carbon and Edwardsville who tell me they ignore all the sirens. I sometimes wonder if we could have three distinguishing sirens, one to blow a watch, one to blow a warning, and one to blow an all clear. In my hometown in NE, we always blew an all-clear. People took the siren seriously, and it was only blown to be tested, or to warn when a funnel was spotted on the ground. I'm just afraid that we're going to have a bad one sometime, and lose many lives because no one takes the sirens seriously.

There was a commercial when I was a kid that had this line:
"I'd rather be a scared chicken than a dead duck."

I also have the weather alert radio. But I like to listen to storm spotters on my scanner. I know of a warning mins. before an alert is put out. I can listen and hear the location, the action is. The spotters report back to NOAH weather via Ham radio, wind speed, hail, damage, ect. I also have a Ham license, and took spotter training, so i can report in if need be , but i enjoy listening better. An example of a great tool listening to storm spotters is one day last season, I told my wife to head to the basement, she looked at me funny and said you worry too much, 2 min later 80 mph winds hit and the power went out, things flyin all over the yard, tree limbs down. Well lets just say my wife takes my storm advise more serious. All be safe!

Well I think it would be good to have the sirens go off only for the county that it needs to be in not every county that it doesn't effect, than that way maybe people will take the sirens more serious when it is really needed. And will these blogs actually help us out any? Enjoying the stormy weather though.

If you choose to ignore the sires, that's just Darwin at work. They talk about severe weather outbreaks for at least a day and a half before it occurs. If people aren't smart enough to make a choice that could save their lives or their families lives, they have to live with it.

CB