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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
I had a normal one with an ice-cream and summer vacations with my parents. Not really worse than you or anybody else. I've heard the nuclear alarm sirens just a few times (maybe 2 or 3) in my life, but I will never forget that sound. At the first time (I was about 9 y.o.) it has real scared me. I was home alone and I didn't know that was just a system testing. For a minute I thought that's for real and I thought "that's it, here we are..." and literally said "bye" to my parents  |
In Holland they used to test the sirens every third monday in the month (or so). They stopped for a while in 1989, than started again, stopped and i think they still do it every month now. They also use it when a disaster happens.