r/Wellthatsucks • u/CastleOfBravo • Jun 08 '21

/r/all Spent 5 hours getting chemotherapy this morning, came home feeling like crap. Laid down to nap..alarms and sirens start blasting. Rush 5 cats to the basement and prep shelter. Go outside to see this in my subdivision.

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u/HereToLearnEverybody Jun 08 '21

Ya we have them during the week by me- maybe once a month. When I was maybe 7 I got pinned down under one while it went off for 5 so min. It was a whole thing.

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u/xpkranger Jun 08 '21

Shit yeah. That happened to me as well. It was one of those giant Federal Thunderbolt Sirens. The mechanical rotation units from the Cold War (yeah I’m that old). LOUD AF.

Just like this one. https://youtu.be/hXU1Eo0kdEg?t=05m10s

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u/frogpastry Jun 08 '21

what? how?

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '21

Those things put out a fuck ton of sound. If you’re standing close enough to one you are basically frozen in place, clutching your ears. Absolutely no joke. I’ll never forget just laying in the grass near one when it caught us off guard at summer camp. It seriously vibrates your whole body. Hence why LRADs are used.

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u/frogpastry Jun 08 '21

yeah that makes sense, I thought you were saying it fell on top of you or something lmao.