Of all the lousy timing for an accidental siren sounding to scare people... One or more of the sirens at the San Onofre Nuclear Plant started up at 4:30 AM, and wailed for about an hour, according to witnesses. The timing was awful, as parts of the CA coast were under dangerous weather warnings, including a tornado-like thing that killed a 21-year-old man in bed in Ventura County earlier in the day. So with the wild weather, some people were panicking and looking for a tornado when the siren sounded. The wind at our place was incredible. It blew iron patio furniture all over the place, and ripped a whole course of roofing off a fairly new porch.
Link to KTLA TV news story: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-s ... 4745.story
Charles