So. California fall siren tests

[CABLEVision]

Hello I have known of the hunigton beach sirens for some time now and i have a few facts

1. They are 1000 i went up and read the plaque on the AR timer

2. The 21441 Magnolia Street location is the prime spot. It's located in edison park sound travels nicely.

I will be at the magnolia street location. Hopefully I will see one of you!

[kx250rider]

I will be at the magnolia street location. Hopefully I will see one of you!

I still haven't decided 100% on the location, and I may cruise a couple of them first if I get there early enough. I may take your advice on that spot since you've been there before. I've been to HB a million times, but had no idea there were active sirens! Whatever spot I pick, I'll be in a white '96 Toyota 4x4 Hilux Diesel (German version of Tacoma) with a big blue RCA TV picture tube box in the back.

Charles

[CABLEVision]

Alright sounds good i'll be a black landrover discovery. BTW i'll be under the party awnings in the park (perfect view of the siren)

[SoundOff]

Any word yet ?

[CABLEVision]

Well all I can say I was slightly disappointed I had expected at least a 1 minute cycle. All it was, was a growl. I saw kx250rider but I was two shy to go up and talk (I parked right next to him!) any way it was nice overall. (Kx250rider are you going to put that photo in the siren archive?) BTW, I heard a 1003 off in the distance I got there an hour early. What had happened is that the fire men were out on a call at test time so when they came back (12:14 or so) the proceeded with the test. kx250rider, what did the firemen say? I saw you talking to them.

[C. Bryant]

What direction was the 1003 sounding from perhaps east ? How long
did they cycle it ?
It would be nice to know of any Orange county
citys still testing other than Huntington Beach and being way late in the
test. Poor choise for FEDERAL Warning Control Panel location they
need an alternate panel in Police Dispatch or some other area
staffed 24hrs. IE: Fire Dept out on mutial aid to Anaheim for
Brush Fire and a Tsunami alert needs to go out after earthquake!

[CABLEVision]

Actually it sound like it was coming from the north. It did a cycle (it happened to be the longest one) of about 30 seconds. It was sounding in attack (I could hear that hi-lo echo off the solenoids)

[kx250rider]

Actually it sound like it was coming from the north. It did a cycle (it happened to be the longest one) of about 30 seconds. It was sounding in attack (I could hear that hi-lo echo off the solenoids)

I wondered if that was you! We both left the park at the same time, but I didn't see you while we were waiting. I was in the back of the firehouse near the trash bin, right under the T-bolt

And YES it was a bit of a disappointment, but that was the first time I had ever heard a T-bolt whatsoever. So I can't call it a total failure. The one in the distance which made a complete cycle sounded to be from the North, then we also heard a couple of growls from the North, and one from the South.

I wonder if that's how they always do the test (just a growl), since it's right in the face of a school across the street? Maybe they don't want to scare the kids. I was worried at noon sharp when nothing happened. Then the fire engine came in, and I asked one of the firemen how the test usually went down. He said that the siren blows at any time between 12 and 1. That's totally different from how Los Angeles County did it. In LA, they all blew for a 1 or 2 minute cycle simultaneously. The Surf City (Huntington) sirens went off one at a time, and not in any order. As if someone is picking up a phone, dialing a trigger number, then waiting to hear back from another person as to the results. Then to the next one, etc. The time between the blasts (or growls in this case), seemed just the right time for an inspector to travel from one site to the next. Hmmm.....

Anyway, here is the pitiful MPEG movie: (I am new at posting video, so hopefully this works). I am also not sure which program(s) will play it, but I played it in Quicktime.

http://s104.photobucket.com/albums/m174 ... I_0006.flv

The startup is slightly cut off becuse I had let the camera go into timeout since we were waiting so long for the test. And embarrassingly, I don't know how to rotate the picture in a video

We will do better next time!

And by the way; the trip down there this morning was fine... Made it in less than 90 minutes! But the way home, OH BROTHER! I had other things to do in OC, and we headed home from there at 3:30. It took 3 hours to get back to the San Fernando Valley, (YES 3 HOURS). But that wasn't the worst. A big fire had started in the Newhall Pass, which completely stifled all traffic going to Santa Clarita where I live. So we went to a weekly Friday evening vintage car show in Northridge, then I found out that the road was closed that leads to where I live. GREAT! So here it was 8:30, and I can't go home. But I made the best of it and went to work at 9:00 at night out in Moorpark. Just now got home at 1:00 AM

Charles

[kx250rider]

What direction was the 1003 sounding from perhaps east ? How long
did they cycle it ?
It would be nice to know of any Orange county
citys still testing other than Huntington Beach and being way late in the
test. Poor choise for FEDERAL Warning Control Panel location they
need an alternate panel in Police Dispatch or some other area
staffed 24hrs. IE: Fire Dept out on mutial aid to Anaheim for
Brush Fire and a Tsunami alert needs to go out after earthquake!

I WONDER if the fire station has the button??? I just assumed that the test came from the Emergency Services Desk. If the test originates in each firehouse, that explains everything. But it would also be annoying to think that the firemen, even if they didn't realize Max Headroom or anyone else was there, they DID at least know that I was there from a long distance away just to see the test, and then not give us a show. Maybe they thought we had no business watching?

Charles

[Conky 2000]

Who else was talking in that video?