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I'm not sure it's what he said. Mine has a radio.
wow look at this guy, got the upgraded entertainment package with AM/FM radio! (I kid, seems to be something that changes with the model year)
It has a DAB radio too!
Six dead after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse near St Louis
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Re: Six dead after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse near St Louis
#322I slept through three tornado sirens last night. It was pretty wild. The first one, I thought it was a test. (We have tests every month on the 1st.) But it wasn't until a few minutes in that I realized it was for real. Then apparently I just... went to sleep? That wasn't the smartest decision I've ever made. It went off a couple more times. One strange thing was the realization that I had no idea where to turn for in…
>The fall of TV You mean in your daily in-take of media? Local TV stations are required to broadcast weather. It's actually part of their licensing. So if you're not in the habit of turning on the local station because of crappy programming (like me), then you should at least be willing to find a local station during weather. Even if regular programming is on, they will break in when requested by the NWS. Local radio…
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Re: Six dead after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse near St Louis
#323I slept through three tornado sirens last night. It was pretty wild. The first one, I thought it was a test. (We have tests every month on the 1st.) But it wasn't until a few minutes in that I realized it was for real. Then apparently I just... went to sleep? That wasn't the smartest decision I've ever made. It went off a couple more times. One strange thing was the realization that I had no idea where to turn for in…
In situations like these I tune into a local radio stations online. Most of them do streaming.
Also, you can google quickly what siren signals mean. There are specific patterns for various disasters and tests.
And finally - if it’s in the middle of night, for sure it’s something serious.
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#324> It was unclear how many workers were still missing, as Amazon did not have an exact count of people working in the sorting and delivery center at the time the tornadoes hit, Whiteford said. I find this hard to accept. They keep track of workers' productivity by the second, but they don't know how many were working there at that time??
> They keep track of workers' productivity by the second, but they don't know how many were working there at that time?? I'd say there's a good chance their on-site computer systems that keep track of employees and their productivity happen to also be out of commission ATM.
They’re not accessible via and/or redundant to the cloud? Shame they’re not aware of a company that provides that type of service.
Re: Six dead after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse near St Louis
#325I slept through three tornado sirens last night. It was pretty wild. The first one, I thought it was a test. (We have tests every month on the 1st.) But it wasn't until a few minutes in that I realized it was for real. Then apparently I just... went to sleep? That wasn't the smartest decision I've ever made. It went off a couple more times. One strange thing was the realization that I had no idea where to turn for in…
>The fall of TV You mean in your daily in-take of media? Local TV stations are required to broadcast weather. It's actually part of their licensing. So if you're not in the habit of turning on the local station because of crappy programming (like me), then you should at least be willing to find a local station during weather. Even if regular programming is on, they will break in when requested by the NWS. Local radio…
Hand crank radio that picks up weather band frequencies and has a built in flashlight and can be charged via solar. I love this gadget!
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#326Earlier quoted context omitted.
> after so many times of dropping what you are doing and rushing to the basement, only to have nothing happen, it becomes an annoyance and is not taken seriously. Is that feeling widespread? In my area we have sirens for different a type of threat, but everybody that I know drops what they are doing and rushes to the shelter, even if it happens two dozen times day and night. To what would you attribute the lack of co…
I have never once dropped what I was doing an rushed to a shelter unless forced to do so by overriding company policy while at my employers place of business. If I am operating under my own accord if a warning is issued I normally find the nearest weather resource with active tracking of the cell to see if I should even care as warning are no where near targeted enough If I am in path of the storm I then look to see…
I see, so at least you do check if the warning is pertinent to you. Our warnings cover relatively small geographical areas, so if we hear it then it sure is pertinent to us. But I understand that maybe your warnings cover larger areas.
Thanks for the detail. Here's to a siren-free week!
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#327Earlier quoted context omitted.
> There aren't hours and days of advanced notice. Only a few minutes. Every major weather and news organization was warning about "a very high likelihood of nocturnal tornadoes in the area" 12+ hours before they happened.
Have you ever lived in Tornado Alley? These warnings are ubiquitous several months out of the year, year after year. I must've received at least a hundred of those. In the entire time I lived in that part of the world, I saw a single tornado, and that is because I was lucky -- most people that live there decades don't see them. The false positive rate for the average person is extremely high, so it is no wonder peopl…
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#328Earlier quoted context omitted.
One day, fully alert and sober at something like 5 PM with no excuses, during a thunderstorm, I heard tornado sirens go off. I thought to myself, "sheesh they are only supposed to run tests at noon once a month, and not during sto- oh"
That is also my response to fire alarms so sensitive that they'll start to chirp when I can't even recognize the smell of a neighbor 50+ ft away smoking outside. It'd be really nice if no one smoked and if these alarms reserved the shrill noises for real emergencies and user initiated tests only.
Mine only chirps when the battery dies. Of course, it's always at 3am and I don't have any 9v batteries. Worse now is none of the stores are open 24 hours so you have to suffer 'til 6am or pay $5 at a gas station for a battery.
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#329Earlier quoted context omitted.
> They keep track of workers' productivity by the second, but they don't know how many were working there at that time?? I'd say there's a good chance their on-site computer systems that keep track of employees and their productivity happen to also be out of commission ATM.
They’re not accessible via and/or redundant to the cloud? Shame they’re not aware of a company that provides that type of service.
I have a third person anecdote that Amazon engineers are not allowed to use AWS.
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#330Earlier quoted context omitted.
They’re not accessible via and/or redundant to the cloud? Shame they’re not aware of a company that provides that type of service.
I have a third person anecdote that Amazon engineers are not allowed to use AWS.
did something change since these answers?