Where do you go when the sirens go off?

[MidgeD79]

The sirens went off around 3:20 AM today so I laid towels in the the bathtub (we don't have a basement) and put the boys (7&12) in the bathtub where they promptly fell asleep! Where do you go when the sirens go off?

 

[lovesmurfs]

The sirens went off around 3:20 AM today so I laid towels in the the bathtub (we don't have a basement) and put the boys (7&12) in the bathtub where they promptly fell asleep! Where do you go when the sirens go off?

We have a basement and a little room on the southeast corner -- we bring the dog with us as well! In the middle of the night, though, we often don't hear the sirens.

 

[Jennasis]

What sirens?

 

[HelenePA]

What sirens?

Tornado I'm guessing

We have never heard the sirens.. I'm not even sure if we have them We'd go in to the basement in the corner use to be steps to the outside so its a very small room.

 

[golfgal]

In the basement in a room under the stairway.

 

[RitaE]

Usually outside to look around.


We do have a basement though.

 

[aprilgail2]

What sirens?

I was thinking the same thing

 

[luvsJack]

There are sirens at the little town about 6-10 miles away to one side of us and at Camp Shelby which about 5 miles away to the other side; but I have never actually heard any of them.

If the TV or radio does give us a warning though, dd and I will go into my walk in closet. We don't have a basement either.

 

[ADisneyQueen]

The tornado sirens went off today at 6 AM here. We didn't go to our basement but got up and got ready to go down if it started hailing. My mom and her dog came over since they don't have a basement.

 

[MushyMushy]

I don't know if we have tornado sirens here. We have sirens for the volunteer fire department, and it's about a block from my house, so it's LOUD. I don't know what I'd do if I heard a different type of siren. We don't even have a radio in our house.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Usually outside to look around.


We do have a basement though.

Same here.

 

[MIGrandma]

We would not hear any sirens out here in the country, but if we were to get really, really severe weather we would go to the basement, probably under the large work table.

We've lived here since '80 and have never gone down, not that I recall.

The one time we had really severe weather (high straight-line winds) we were not at home.

 

[mrodgers]

We have sirens for the volunteer fire department...

Yup, sirens for us just means to turn up the scanner to hear where the accident is (9 times out of 10 it is an accident.) It also allows my kids to be forewarned if they want to keep an eye out for the LifeFlight helicopter because it will always fly overtop of our house.

 

[daughter_of_amid_chaos]

At college we went down into the basement. When the sirens went off the campus was put on a lockdown.

Now that I am in Rhode Island I have a small closet downstairs in the center of my house that I will use should we get a tornado warning (no sirens but after 4 years in Indiana I am always prepared). I have no basement and the closet is big enough for me and the cat.

 

[HelenePA]

I don't know if we have tornado sirens here. We have sirens for the volunteer fire department, and it's about a block from my house, so it's LOUD. I don't know what I'd do if I heard a different type of siren. We don't even have a radio in our house.

I live in front of a firehouse.. less than 250ft away.. We always know when the roads are bad, the sirens NEVER STOP.

 

[skw444]

We have a basement, so we go down to the room under the stairs.

 

[snarlingcoyote]

I was taught to get into the tub with a blanket over me as a child, but that was back when bathtubs were all metal. Now with all the fiberglass tubs out there, I wonder if that's as safe. Also, what if you have just a shower?

We don't have sirens where I live now, but I suspect I'd go to closet that has all interior walls or just sit in the hallway if I heard there was a tornado in the neighborhood. . .after I'd been an idiot and stood outside taking a few pictures. (During Gustav I was literally swept off my feet doing just that.)

 

[Carly_Roach]

If we're both home, DH and I would typically take turns tracking the storm via the internet, listening to the scanner and standing outside watching it. However, when there was a tornado near here in 2001, DH was on patrol and made a short call home to tell me to get into the hallway (our most interior room) and put the cat in the linen closet. We don't have a basement.

I'm hoping our SE Michigan and Northern Ohio DISers are all OK today. Apparently some very wicked storms went through last night.

 

[paintnolish]

Usually outside to look around.

My mom always did that! It freaked me out!

 

[kinntj]

The room under the stairs in the basement.