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| Home Front Command to test air raid sirens in Jerusalem | |
| 2012-02-17 | |
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| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 They don't do this now? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2012-02-17 12:12 |
| #2 For many years, the US had air raid sirens that it would test once a month. Anonymoose, now the government tests the emergency broadcast system (exterior sirens, interior horrid sound on radios, televisions, and weather radios) every week. So every Wednesday I am catapulted out of my morning nap at 11:30, to be reassured that if there were an actual emergency I would be informed what to do. Thus I am reassured that we as a community are ready for inclement weather, tornadoes, or even nuclear war, in which case we will duck and cover in our windowless tornado room/guest room in the back of the basement. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2012-02-17 12:10 |
| #1 For many years, the US had air raid sirens that it would test once a month. They quietly discontinued this for two reasons. The first being that the US only has a tiny number of fallout shelters, and more importantly, it was determined that casualties without fallout shelters would not be appreciably different than if fallout shelters were used, given the amount of time the public would have to seek shelter in a nuclear attack. However, Israel is a different case. Being under frequent attack from projectiles, with a public drilled on rapidly seeking shelter, and having a modern, equipped shelter system, gives a much better statistical outcome for the use of shelters. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-02-17 08:50 |