Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-35175794-20181009143234/@comment-35500713-20181009203010

Actually, I was in West Virginia...but it appears that this use is more widespread than I thought. And YES! It agitates transplated midwesterners tremendously until we know the reason why the sirens are going off. :-)  We were taught from a very young age to respect them.

But then, my childhood was BC - Before Cellphones. There was no cable TV and no Weather Channel. The sirens were the only warning you got.