Emergency Alert Systems (EAS) are Scary...

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[@TheRaptureIsComingJesusChrist]

When will make another video looking for remains of tornado?

[@jennisdavis2106]

Great video as always! Can you please tell me the name of that soulful and jazzy music that you use at end of your video? I would love to look it up and try to hear the full version if possible. Thanks!

[@brainandforce]

Minor nitpick on the CONELRAD frequencies: they're chosen to throw off enemy bombers whose crews may use the signals from known civilian radio stations to home in on a target.

[@Godzilla20191]

0:27 as a siren enthusiast I can confirm I have having a meltdown because your using an ACA hurricane sound for a 2001

[@mrman-yj3bn]

You look identical as the guy on the channel "letts react"

[@kateg.3408]

3:00 Hi, 9-1-1 Dispatcher here! Kids in the fifties actually wouldn’t have been taught to dial 9-1-1. To those of us who grew up with it, 9-1-1 seems like an eternal fixture, but it’s surprisingly recent! The first 9-1-1 call was placed in February of 1968. Even after it was designated as a nationwide emergency line, it took a while to catch on. The federal government endorsed the adoption of a standard emergency number in 1973, but only a couple of states adopted the change. It wasn’t until the mid 80s that 9-1-1 as an emergency line was finally implemented across the nation. Before that, you’d have to call the 7-digit number to the police department in order to report an emergency, or call a local hospital directly to request medical transportation. Some of those old copper lines are still in service, at least where I work, likely because of how many older people call using those numbers.

[@FR0ET]

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[@andromedatheharpy9087]

thats so cool actually! i always assumed its been around for ages, i didnt know that its a relatively recent thing!

[@victoriapinter6523]

that's really interesting! thanks for the info, i didn't know that

[@marzipankrabapoulus6371]

That's right. 911 wasn't introduced until the 80s in my community. Before that, my grandma had a label on her phone that listed 7 digit numbers for police, fire, etc.

[@authenticpoppy]

911 wasn't available across the country all at once. The phone companies were slow to implement it, and implementation stretched well into the '90s. Some rural areas had satellite television before 911 services.

[@ladycatsinger]

I used to work overnight in a Meijer store and part of what the cashiers did was monitor the radio during bad weather and alert everyone if a watch or warning was issued. One night I was working with my friend who was terrified of storms due to an experience when she was younger. An alert came over the radio for a flash flood warning and the robo voice said, "If you drive into floodwaters you WILL die!" We looked at each other and said,"did he just say that?", and then we started laughing because we had never heard that before. The good thing was that it broke the tension and fear she was feeling. After that, it became a little in joke between us and would work to calm her down...all I had to do was say,"If you drive into floodwaters, YOU WILL DIE!" and she would laugh. We weren't in any danger of flooding at the store. On a side note, the poor girl went thru the Henryville tornado a few years later, fortunately it only broke some windows in their mobile home and destroyed her car (they were on the edge of the damage path) but she was okay and she said the flood warning joke kept running thru her head during it

[@HannahTinsel]

Sending lots of love and good vibes to your friend. No one should have to go through that. ❤

[@emrilbennett8704]

Bonding over the EAS. OK then, I’m here for it

[@AshIsAutistic]

How heartwarming

[@HannahTinsel]

@@emrilbennett8704 always!!! Gotta bond!

[@ghostofyou9721]

As a fellow Hoosier I remember the Henryville tornado. I was in middle school. My mom pulled me out of school. Luckily I wasn't in the path of the storm but there was a tornado watch for my area.

[@swedneck]

stuff like this is so fascinating to me, it's equal parts profoundly horrifying and yet somehow also profoundly comforting. it means there's something extremely dangerous going on, but the very fact that there's such an effective warning about it means that a stupendous amount of people are and have been working together to do their best to protect people, which is honestly rather tear-jerking when you think about the sheer scale of it. For much the same reason i'm rather enamored with the quick effective jargon you tend to hear on radio when used for communication between workers, like military and emergency services. Hearing people coordinate over such a limited medium is amazing.

[@dark_disciple]

Ah yes, nothing like getting woken up at 3am to an amber alert in a town 40m away

[@Nurichiri]

I'm on the edge of two counties, so I programmed my NOAA radio for both. I was woken up for a flood watch at the other end of the county I wasn't in.

[@iamathousandapples]

I turn those off, its a setting in your phone and they just go away 😇

[@sgtjacques4172]

I got one from a city over an hour away

[@Midnight24435]

My brain read this as "40 meters" not "40 miles". I was like... yes, you're gonna get amber alerts for a town you're currently in, my guy.

[@CobraDBlade]

That close? Nearest amber alert I've gotten was on the other side of the state.

[@jonthegamerboy]

My childhood trauma was the EAS test going off during Sesame Street 😭

[@cacamedaddy]

Sorry that you had to go through that 😭😭 Mine was when i was singing mickey mouse theme song and the test going off😭😭

[@hannahgroves243]

What freaked me out the most was driving down the road and having it come on the radio because... Yikes, you're in a car and I didn't live in town so chances were... You had a ways before getting to legit shelter

[@stonedfloridaman3901]

It was SpongeBob for me 😭

[@Etriland]

Was it that infamous tornado drill?

[@jonthegamerboy]

@@Etriland no, we don’t have very many tornadoes in South Texas.

[@bwktlcn]

I grew up near a first strike military target. The same siren that told us the Russians had launched also told us that a tornado was coming or to set our watches (went off every Saturday at noon). I know there were different patterns, but that sound is distinctive. I moved to Virginia, working as a nightshift ICU nurse 30 years later. They used the same kind of siren to summon the volunteer fire dept. I about had a panic attack when it went off one night, it was storming and all I could think was “Tornado!”

[@justjennie7394]

I grew up in Virginia during the 80s and I remember our volunteer fire department using the sirens- it was right next door to my favorite ice cream shop and when my family go there in the summer we’d sit in the car to eat our ice cream- I always felt tense hoping the sirens didn’t go off while we were there😮

[@Nono-hk3is]

Yeah my girlfriend grew up in Missouri, and has the same reaction to the fire station alarm here in the northeast. She in particular doesn't appreciate that the alarm also goes off at noon every day. Honestly if a tornado was imminent, the fire alarm going off would not help us.

[@kaiirunz57]

We had DirectTV when I was a kid. I slept with the TV on. When a recorded show ends, it switches back to live programming. Out of all the live programs it could've chosen, it put on an 8-hour infomercial about missing children and their specific situations. 7 year old me, right next to the window where the woods is watching our house, was too scared shitless to get up and change the channel, so I was up most of the night worried about getting kidnapped.

[@Fhirsts]

happened to me lol

[@Lordjbear]

Damn

[@GuyTheGuardian]

Same here

[@finnik_23]

oh dang dude, that's the worst lol

[@switchinglanes2663]

same i thought to my 8 year old ass "im gonna end up as those kids😨"

[@stevengoomba6490]

I think one the reasons the analog horror series local 58 resonates with a lot of people is because it mimics the kind of dread an EAS gives people. I’m used to the tornado message but it still freaks me out when I hear the sirens.

[@natperhaps]

yep, found it though weather warning and that’s what got me into analog horror in general.

[@OtherWarthunderNoob]

The alert is unnerving enough but when the alarms go off along with it makes it more horrifying

[@Fxltl]

The sirens are normal for me, in most parts of the Midwest it’s required they’re tested once a month. Now when I hear the siren it just reminds me it’s a Wednesday

[@RagerunnerVR]

That is actually true

[@aistiera_2.0]

i love local 58 sm. that was one of the reasons I found the whole eas thing interesting lol

[@willow9145]

I had an amber alert go off in the middle of the night and it woke me up. In my half asleep state i legit thought my phone was going to explode so i flopped out of bed and crawled under my desk and waited for an explosion. I fell asleep under my desk woke up an hour or so later and crawled back into bed. One heck of a night

[@Zapruderfilm1963]

I’m turning 58 this year, I remember absolutely freaking out one May afternoon in 1974 when I was eight years old outside St.Louis in my hometown of Alton, Illinois. A tornado warned storm was In the immediate vicinity and my Mom had a local St.Louis area AM radio station on. I went to the window looked out and happened to see what I know now was rotating wall cloud going over the neighborhood. At the exact same time the EBS warning tone came over the radio about the storm. That memory is seared into my brain. That’s why I am a tornado freak now.😐☺️

[@Bluesbetter7491]

No way bro I live in Springfield. It was pretty crazy during the March 31, April 1 of 2023 outbreak.

[@BattleshipOrion]

​@Bluesbetter7491 April 1 was crazy. It was my first sighted tornado, and it was a stove-pipe. It did EF-1 damage, some of which is still visible, bit ot took out the greenhouse.

[@rymacreeks2k07]

oh fuck that, terrifying

[@barneshomestead1240]

I remember that outbreak in 74 in the deep South & the 4/27/2011 one that featured a long track tornado I watched on video form in Tuscaloosa & came within .09 of a mile from my home just outside Birmingham an hour later. You never forget the experience.

[@rionthemagnificent2971]

They probably had those old Conelrad sirens powered by old gas motors.. There's one in my hometown, still works too. I went to grab a meal from a local takeout place *right across the street from it!!* and that thing went off due to a bad storm in a town north of me that had a tornado touch down and go back up.i'm pretty sure i had temporary deafness for an hr after it went off.

[@thelonehussar6101]

Ah yes, the classic childhood fear of every midwesterner

[@bogden9585]

Yeah, cause only the Midwest has an EAS, right?

[@EpicgamerGTG]

​@@bogden9585yeah the Midwest is the only region of the US with an EAS.

[@WestCentralWVWX]

@@EpicgamerGTG idk if your being sarcastic (which I believe you are lol) but over here in West Virginia we got it lol

[@EpicgamerGTG]

@@WestCentralWVWX I am being sarcastic

[@WestCentralWVWX]

@@EpicgamerGTG thats what I thought lol

[@TheOffcialBT]

I HATED Tornado alarms as a little kid. I watched some creepy thing that gave me nightmares, and I thought every time the tornado sirens went off I would be hunted down and be tortured.

[@ItzKirah]

When I watched Tornado stuff when I was 7-8 I didn’t sleep for 8 days

[@Bumpervr-vr]

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[@Lauren-hx6iu]

You perfectly tapped into my 10 year long hyperfixation, this is my favorite video ever now

[@mirihawk]

same here but with severe weather (so a natural portion of it!), i started freaking out when my city was featured because i was shocked id never heard of it 😭

[@icansensemymothersdisappoi2954]

FINALLY I HAVE FOUND MY PEOPLE

[@soft_serve_666]

​@@icansensemymothersdisappoi2954We have arrived!!

[@RadeonVega64]

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[@CryBlueofZ]

EAS mocks?

[@your_local_bardbear]

As someone who was born in Canada, nothing is scarier than that alert coming from your phone either a) At 3am b) In a public space where hundreds of phones go off at the same time

[@greatmatt301]

Fuck me i can feel my body get hyped and that tingle through your body that some shit is about to go down EVERY SINGLE TIME i get an alert. I also work at a grocery store. We had an amber alert? or maybe an alert that someone was running around stabbing random people and it was like a movie scene where all the characters get a group text and all stop what they are doing and look at their phones. XD

[@Blastifyer]

Hey, REACT TO BRAZILS!

[@fabiodafonseca3879]

Nowadays in Brazil they just text you "heavy rains, floodings and potential landslides" like dude? Am I supposed to be afraid?

[@Russell-u1x]

Its worse when i happens at school and you just hear a hallway of sirens

[@cornblaster7003]

it's always a god damn amber alert from like 2 cities over too lol

[@ShockInazuma]

0:50 Funny you mention that. There is an EAS sound that’s literally just a harp sound. If I am correct, it’s one of Japan's EAS sounds.

[@Aple1259]

It's just 3 bit high notes repeated, they have a very quick and detailed report when it happens with that sound on the news I think

[@queenspikes2521]

Specifically it's for their earthquake early warning system, and only that. The OTHER alert system, J-Alert, is used for everything else, and that tone is much, much more scary sounding.

[@i_amnot_here2453]

I live here in Hawaii and I experienced receiving that message in the phone that we're about to get nuked back in 2018. Its terrifying. What terrifies me more is that the night before, I was watching those mock EAS videos here in KZbin, and I even dreamt about it. Then I woke up with that alarm blaring on my phone. Its scary.

[@spectralbypassfailure532]

question: did the alarm make its way into your dream?

[@colestock9980]

I live in a quiet part of canada near the rockies, but every so often i get dreams like Trudeau (yes, specifically him for whatever reason) sending in the new F-35s with nukes. Not even sure an F-35 is capable of dropping nukes. The TV would be on in the background with the announcer saying “this is the end, goodbye” as footage of the planes release the bombs. Sorry, that probably did not help your situation, nor will it help mine as i’m overdue for a disaster related dream 😂

[@spytf2-pb3yo]

@@colestock9980 I'm canadian and the thought of this made me laugh so hard

[@tayandella]

Bro that’s literally the worst situation ever😭

[@Fixit111]

That was in 2018? Holy hell it feels like yesterday

[@deborahhuckstep2379]

During the 1950's and 60's, there was a very passionate NWS meteorologist here in Topeka that locked horns with the Feds about siren usage. They said that under no circumstances any entity but them was to use them. Well, our local NWS guy was NOT impressed with the Feds and told them for tornado warnings the steady tone would be used and the wavering tone could be used for nuclear attacks. They kicked up a fuss, but eventually gave in. Fast forward to June 8th 1966, when all the Thunderbolt sirens sounded at 7PM....warning of an impending F5.....saving countless lives. I have the late Richard Garrett, that passionate meteorologist, to thank for my existence. My folks were a direct hit, and if it weren't for the sirens at that time I wouldn't be here. Legendary Bill Kurtis is also part of the weather history here too.....this will forever be associated with him.....For God's sake...TAKE COVER!!

[@JamieWoods-go1cv]

At one time the US Weather Bureau, and later the National Weather Service, Severe Storms Forecast Center was in Kansas City. The Severe Storms Research Center was in Norman Oklahoma. These have been combined and are now in Norman. The merged entity is called The Storm Prediction Center. In case anyone is wondering the Storm Prediction Center issues Severe weather outlooks and issues watches. Local NWS offices issues warnings.

[@nameless.402]

​@jdaluvsjesus you were made by humans you're ones and zeros you can't be addicted to religion if you're literally an android

[@SkywalkerFilms1927]

@@nameless.402 I don't know if that is a bot or not, but if it is a bot, than it only does what it is programmed to do. If it is a person, than he is following the Great Commission, but maybe not in the most tasteful way.

[@kyleeagainnnnn]

@SuperiorityFighter yup had the same fear, except when they came on I would run all the way downstairs or upstairs or to my parents. TRULY TERRIBLE TIMES

[@eggnoodles808]

wow, i grew up hearing about the 1966 tornado. had no idea there were politics behind the siren sounds. glad they used them, must have been terrifying to live through.

[@Nefertiti0403]

0:34 I Know EXACTLY what you’re talking about. On 5/22/24 at approximately 6:15 pm, I’m watching tv and suddenly the city siren went off, then my phone went crazy “Take shelter, stay away from windows” I’m absolutely terrified! Called my Father and asked him to update me on the weather here in Temple TX, sure enough it was headed straight for me! Needless to say lots of damage was done and to add to that, I have anxiety now every time there’s a storm 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@SawdawgGaming]

Damn I’m sorry was everybody okay

[@Nefertiti0403]

@@SawdawgGaming I Think. I’m not totally sure about Everyone. I don’t know

[@Nefertiti0403]

@@SawdawgGaming More Importantly, I Survived and I still Gave my House…Others weren’t so lucky 😭🙏🏼 I’m grateful for everything.

[@erinberryhill694]

As an Oklahoman, Tornadoes don’t scare me ngl. (I realized that ur eas went off on my birthday lol)

[@williamcote4208]

Canadian here, I shit you not, when an EAS happens on radio, most of the time, there is a prerecorded voice that plays just to prepare us to hear it because, when you are not expecting it, I wouldn’t be surprised if it gave someone an actual heart attack. There is one time we heard it a lot in the spend of like… 30 minutes to an hour last year, but then again, it was because of the tornado that dropped near Montreal. (Speaking of which: JESUS that storm just wanted to scare everyone. The day before it dropped a tornado near Chicago, iirc, and it lifted right before hitting the city, then, the next day, it dropped one in an Ottawa suburb, and remember that Ottawa is the country’s capital, and it lifted before hitting Ottawa proper, then it dropped one near Montreal and missed the city… THAT STORM CHOSE CHAOS!)

[@AdriannaPerkins]

Now that’s one wicked storm. It woke up and said: 💃💃💃

[@93Deli]

oh man, I remember this. I’m Texas born and raised but was living in MTL studying French, and I was napping when it went off the first time. I’d never heard the Canadian alert sound, and I had my headphones in when it went off on my phone… you can imagine what that was like. after it was all over, I had to laugh. tornadoes happen in TX all the time, but it’s ironic that the closest call I’ve ever had with one was not in TX, but in MONTRÉAL of all places hahaha

[@williamcote4208]

@@93Deli LOL! What are the chances?

[@givemeyournachos]

The tornado warned storms from last summer were insane! Vaudreuil in Quebec was hearing it go off every half hour as that Ottawa storm quickly made its way down the Ottawa river along with another storm system coming up southern Ontario from the St-Lawrence from Kingston. It missed us, but it was absolutely insane. Watching the SCUD clouds dip down and the rotation in the clouds as so spooky.

[@AmyraCarter]

If storms had morality: #ChaoticNeutral

[@DavidRockin1]

17:30 yes TV and radio are "outdated" but the thing about radio (from my highschool comm tech teacher, who used to work in a radio) is that radio will NEVER disappear. It's extremely reliable and powerful. There's a good chance most people still have access to a radio receiver. FM and AM frequency waves can propagate very large distances, and most portable radios are very cheap and easily powered by replaceable batteries. Should there be a MASSIVE crisis such as the grid going offline, there's a good chance a lot of cell towers and ISPs going offline. Backup generators can only last so long, and during times of crisis those cell towers will be overwhelmed (or crippled) as people trying to communicate with loved ones or trying to figure out what is going on. Plus cell phones suck these days, don't last long, and not a lot of people have a high capacity battery bank. But radio, is very simple and a perfect backup communication, as they can transmit important emergency information that could be picked up from other cities, since there's probably at least one radio transmission tower in most cities, so you have that extra redundancy if a local radio tower goes down, you might still picked up something from another city. Also fun fact, that Canadian alert sound is also used on modern phones and also used for amber alerts. It's very scary and annoying to get an amber alert for a missing person that is 6 hours north of you in the middle of the night.

[@seantaggart7382]

Indeed

[@maximillianlylat1589]

Crank radios also exist, so even if you loose power it can be used. Live in a bad flooding area along with occasional tornados, so ive always been a little interested

[@AmyraCarter]

More annoying than scary, actually, kick out scary and add in frustrating and that's how Amber Alerts make me feel. To be honest, when it comes to Flight/Freeze/Fight triggers, Amber Alerts always, at least for me, trigger, the *_FIGHT_* response. Makes me wanna go and *_kick some arse._* I'm not kidding. ... So, ask me again why I play FPS games. Ask me again why I use *_Brutal DooM. Catharsis,_* it really soothes a Fight response.

[@lindsayschmidt2177]

I have anxiety and a particular fear about the internet/phones suddenly no longer working, and it never occurred to me until I read your comment that radio would still work in that scenario. So thank you for giving me a bit of hope should my fears materialize!

[@PhirePhlame]

And many cell phones have FM receivers built in. Not as common these days, given the trend of removing headphone jacks (headphone cables are what's used as FM antennae by cell phones that have the feature), but be sure to check compatibility on your current phone and any old ones you may have laying about. If cell goes out in a crisis, you may need it.

[@Hellsing1901]

Out here bringing back my childhood with Perfect Dark at 3:35, lol. Good 'ol Carrington Institute. Great video by the way!

[@thornor85]

that happy and cute alert cracked me up so much

[@orangejjay]

Thanks. Now please go to the basement. 😁🤗

[@rymacreeks2k07]

instagram reels ahh comment 😭😭

[@nameless.402]

​@jdaluvsjesus No!

[@Idkwhattoput151]

Japan eas moment

[@yakiravega5826]

@@nameless.402then you will go down have fun if you dint repent

[@thatonepossum5766]

I have autism. I use Bluetooth headphones to muffle background noise. Which leads me to a fun fact: tornado alerts are LOUD through headphones. Like, rip the headphones off and almost cry, loud. Hate those things…

[@Orange-maggots]

FR

[@macgyversmacbook1861]

Oh my Lord I’m Autistic as well and this is the TRUTH!

[@racer927]

It spooks me just a little bit when my video pauses and I get the alert tone buzzing on my phone followed by hearing it in my headphones if I'm using them and they're so out-of-sync.

[@sopwithhannah2401]

I remember when I was in high school I was just walking down the hallway minding my own business listening to tunes… and then suddenly it goes silent. And then my eardrums were blown out by an amber alert lol

[@Billybobjoeihavebigtoes]

I’m possibly autistic my new psychiatrist thinks so (I met him once lol) I hate loud noises they make me feel so anxious… when I was little I quite basket ball because of the score bored

[@Eli-xd7zf]

Being from Canada’s tornado central, there’s literally nothing that sends me into fight or flight faster than that alert ready sound. I swear they test it just for fun😭

[@cxrsen.doodles]

Frr they do it like twice a month or more😭🙏

[@adrianaranta]

As someone who lives about an hour and a half away from the Detroit Windsor border and might travel to Canada,I hope I never hear that cursed tone

[@takigan]

I'm ASD. One of my earliest memories is being 5 years old and having a full blown panic attack from an Emergency Alert that went off during a children's TV show I was watching during the morning sometime in 1990.

[@seantaggart7382]

Honestly its ingenious It gets your attention no matter who you are It says SOMETHING IMPORTANT IS OCCURING! LISTEN UP

[@salt907]

SAME 😭😭😭😭

[@asychr0n0us]

what does asd stand for again

[@salt907]

@@asychr0n0us Autism Spectrum Disorder, the disability I have

[@RadeonVega64]

​@@asychr0n0usautism spectrum disorder

[@sushifox0]

Love your stuff, dude!

[@SwegleStudios]

I appreciate that! Thanks so much!

[@aperturelaboratoriesmybeloved]

Swegle Studios, I just wanna say that you are the reason why I know about The Mandela Catalogue, the Smile Tapes, all of the popular and unpopular EAS/EBS Scenario, and Analog Horror channels. I watched this video and I decided to look up EAS Scenarios. I love them so much (it's honestly a bit of a problem at this point 😅👀👀) and I have you to thank for it! Blessings, Aperture Laboratorids :)

[@thelizardhedd]

Years ago I was watching vsauce videos. I feel asleep and it starting playing the vid where he is talking about nuclear war. I woke up to a mock EAS that was saying every major US city was about to get hit with nuclear weapons. I was living in Chicago at the time… Truly one of the scariest moments in my life hahaha

[@Gic424_YT]

Dang 😂😂

[@dragons_red]

Love that story 🤣

[@emrilbennett8704]

LMFAO the creator did their job they got you good

[@seantaggart7382]

Damn

[@hollymccormack4081]

That'll wake you up in a hurry! 🤯

[@cletishempire6842]

At my school recently, EAS went off on peoples' phones. Usually it's amber alerts, but the day was supposed to be rainy so I thought it would be a flash flood warning or something, but NO, it was a tornado alert. Apparently there was an EF3 tornado about 30 minutes away from the school. Our school didn't do anything about it and my friends joked about it so we were chill for most of the time. Most of the people in the class left early due to flash flooding, but the storm subsided hours later. It was only me and a few other people left in the class. It was very terrifying at first whenever people started talking about it

[@Splash0-4]

Last year in May, the entire school got an alert, and it was about some guy shooting people.

[@jee0de]

I SEEN THAT ALL OVER TIKTOK JUST TO FIND THAT EVERYONE WAS OVER REACTING AND ONLY OUR TEACHERS PHONE WENT OFF. SHIT WAS SO QUIET AND NOT SCARY I DONT KNOW WHAT THEY MEANT

[@nerdyarlequinz]

To be fair, a tornado 30 miles away is not really anything to worry about.

[@CdognanoGamingCyclones]

@@nerdyarlequinznot miles, MINUTES. That could be a lot less than 30 miles.

[@2A6M]

As a canadian, i cannot even describe to you how loud and terrifying the EAS sounds, i use a sleep app that plays relaxing sounds to help me sleep and calm me down, but i start getting unsettled because if an emergency alert plays, its gonna be loud as hell, and i have a fear of those sounds

[@nositrek]

That “don’t turn the lights off” mock EAS has literally horrified me for over a year 😭

[@angieb6743]

Same

[@koya326]

I regret watching that one. I didn’t even really watch it, I did that thing where you hover over the video and it starts playing without volume, but I did that at like 10pm before I went to bed…

[@racer927]

Just so I don't have to watch it; what was it about?

[@GarrettIngallJr]

What is it about?

[@MTPlayzRoblox]

I think some sort of entity or whatever kills you if you turn off the lights or smth, I’ve seen it on my fyp but I never watched it.

[@devilsorchard1449]

The sound of that screeching tone, combined with a Thunderbolt, haunted the collective nightmares of Midwestern children.

[@subplzorideleteurchannel7193]

Also in the Southeast

[@theedmee]

Amen...

[@StormChasingNinja]

And us southern children 😭😭 would literally shit myself every time I heard it

[@RealJuanCastaneda]

I hate the amber alerts because I live near Joplin, MO. Not even 10 miles away. And you know... Sunny, then TORNADO! And the Joplin Airport is like a spawn point for twisters. Every time there's a supercell, a twister lands at the Airport. It's for planes, not tornadoes. Confused supercells I swear. On April 1st, almost the same time you posted this comment. A big one landed at the Airport, but it barely moved.

[@devilsorchard1449]

@@RealJuanCastaneda It's very understandable to fear tornadoes in the Joplin area. That beast in 2011 left a legacy behind.

[@iLikePlanez]

Horror movies: 🌷 Human atrocities: 😁 EAS: 😰😰😰

[@Depressed_Cuboid]

i’ve been waiting for a dedicated EAS video on this channel very epic.

[@BeeWhistler]

It’s a topic I never knew I needed. This was a good one.

[@daystriker1680]

YOOOO I FOUND YOU WITHOUT LOOKING WASSUP BOI

[@Depressed_Cuboid]

@@daystriker1680 YOOOO WASSUP

[@daystriker1680]

@@Depressed_Cuboid YOOOO

[@ThatGuy-sd3zl]

Nothing scarier than static noise coming from the radio when disconnecting and reconnecting the battery on a Ford. Of course they designed it so that the volume is cranked.

[@davidpawson7393]

Sounds like, pun intended, that you have another problem as none of my many Fords has done that. Your noise suppressor, usually mounted on the alternator that resembles a capacitor with a wire like a condenser is bad or has been removed. Hope this helps.

[@ThatGuy-sd3zl]

@@davidpawson7393 I’m a mechanic. I’ve had many Ford vehicles do this. They default to a AM station with no radio signal. Typically on ones ranging from the year 2000-2012 I’d say. Considering the likes on my comment, others have heard this as well.

[@AmyraCarter]

@@ThatGuy-sd3zl ... In truth, reading that, gave me quite the giggle. I can imagine it quite vividly. 🤭

[@ThatGuy-sd3zl]

@jdaluvsjesus Repentance is not done by praying to a dead Jew god on a stick invented by Roman’s. You want the truth, go follow the Torah. Deut 4:15, 16. וְנִשְׁמַרְתֶּ֥ם מְאֹ֖ד לְנַפְשֹׁתֵיכֶ֑ם כִּ֣י לֹ֤א רְאִיתֶם֙ כָּל־תְּמוּנָ֔ה בְּי֗וֹם דִּבֶּ֨ר יְהוָ֧ה אֲלֵיכֶ֛ם בְּחֹרֵ֖ב מִתּ֥וֹךְ הָאֵֽשׁ׃ For your own sake, therefore, be most careful-since you saw no shape when Hashem your God spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire- ‎פֶּ֨ן־תַּשְׁחִת֔וּן וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֥ם לָכֶ֛ם פֶּ֖סֶל תְּמוּנַ֣ת כָּל־סָ֑מֶל תַּבְנִ֥ית זָכָ֖ר א֥וֹ נְקֵבָֽה׃ not to act wickedly and make for yourselves a sculptured image in any likeness whatever: the form of a man or a woman, Deut 4:35 אַתָּה֙ הָרְאֵ֣תָ לָדַ֔עַת כִּ֥י יְהוָ֖ה ה֣וּא הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים אֵ֥ין ע֖וֹד מִלְבַדּֽוֹ׃ It has been clearly demonstrated to you that Hashem alone is God; there is none beside Him. Deut 4:39. וְיָדַעְתָּ֣ הַיּ֗וֹם וַהֲשֵׁבֹתָ֮ אֶל־לְבָבֶךָ֒ כִּ֤י יְהוָה֙ ה֣וּא הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים בַּשָּׁמַ֣יִם מִמַּ֔עַל וְעַל־הָאָ֖רֶץ מִתָּ֑חַת אֵ֖ין עֽוֹד׃ Know therefore this day and keep in mind that Hashem alone is God in heaven above and on earth below; there is no other. Deut 6:4 שְׁמַ֖ע יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ יְהוָ֥ה ׀ אֶחָֽד׃ Hear, O Israel! Hashem is our God, Hashem is One. Deut 6:13 אֶת־יְהוָ֧ה אֱלֹהֶ֛יךָ תִּירָ֖א וְאֹת֣וֹ תַעֲבֹ֑ד וּבִשְׁמ֖וֹ תִּשָּׁבֵֽעַ׃ Revere only Hashem your God and worship Him alone, and swear only by His name. Deut 32:39 רְא֣וּ ׀ עַתָּ֗ה כִּ֣י אֲנִ֤י אֲנִי֙ ה֔וּא וְאֵ֥ין אֱלֹהִ֖ים עִמָּדִ֑י אֲנִ֧י אָמִ֣ית וַאֲחַיֶּ֗ה מָחַ֙צְתִּי֙ וַאֲנִ֣י אֶרְפָּ֔א וְאֵ֥ין מִיָּדִ֖י מַצִּֽיל׃ See, then, that I, I am He; There is no god beside Me. I deal death and give life; I wounded and I will heal: None can deliver from My hand. Exodus 20:2-3 אָֽנֹכִ֖י֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑֔יךָ אֲשֶׁ֧ר הוֹצֵאתִ֛יךָ מֵאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרַ֖יִם מִבֵּ֣֥ית עֲבָדִֽ֑ים׃ I am Hashem your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, the house of bondage: לֹֽ֣א יִהְיֶֽה־לְךָ֛֩ אֱלֹהִ֥֨ים אֲחֵרִ֖֜ים עַל־פָּנָֽ֗יַ You shall have no other gods besides Me. 1 Samuel 2:2 There is none as holy as Hashem, for there is none besides you, and there is no Rock like our G-d. 1 Samuel 15:29 Moreover, the Eternal One of Israel does not relent, for He is not a Human that He should relent. 2 Samuel 7:21-22 It is because of Your word and Your desire the You have bestowed all this greatness [upon me], and informed your servant of it; because You are great, Hashem, G-d, for there is none like You and there is no god besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears. Jeremiah 31: 31-34 הִנֵּ֛ה יָמִ֥ים בָּאִ֖ים נְאֻם־יְהֹוָ֑ה וְכָרַתִּ֗י אֶת־בֵּ֧ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל וְאֶת־בֵּ֥ית יְהוּדָ֖ה בְּרִ֥ית חֲדָשָֽׁה׃ See, a time is coming-declares Hashem-when I will make a new covenant with the House of Israel and the House of Judah. ‎לֹ֣א כַבְּרִ֗ית אֲשֶׁ֤ר כָּרַ֙תִּי֙ אֶת־אֲבוֹתָ֔ם בְּיוֹם֙ הֶחֱזִיקִ֣י בְיָדָ֔ם לְהוֹצִיאָ֖ם מֵאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרָ֑יִם אֲשֶׁר־הֵ֜מָּה הֵפֵ֣רוּ אֶת־בְּרִיתִ֗י וְאָנֹכִ֛י בָּעַ֥לְתִּי בָ֖ם נְאֻם־יְהֹוָֽה׃ It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers, when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, a covenant which they broke, though I espoused them-declares Hashem ‎כִּ֣י זֹ֣את הַבְּרִ֡ית אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֶכְרֹת֩ אֶת־בֵּ֨ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל אַחֲרֵ֨י הַיָּמִ֤ים הָהֵם֙ נְאֻם־יְהֹוָ֔ה נָתַ֤תִּי אֶת־תּֽוֹרָתִי֙ בְּקִרְבָּ֔ם וְעַל־לִבָּ֖ם אֶכְתְּבֶ֑נָּה וְהָיִ֤יתִי לָהֶם֙ לֵֽאלֹהִ֔ים וְהֵ֖מָּה יִֽהְיוּ־לִ֥י לְעָֽם׃ But such is the covenant I will make with the House of Israel after these days-declares Hashem I will put My TORAH into their inmost being and inscribe it upon their hearts. Then I will be their G-d, and they shall be My people. ‎וְלֹ֧א יְלַמְּד֣וּ ע֗וֹד אִ֣ישׁ אֶת־רֵעֵ֜הוּ וְאִ֤ישׁ אֶת־אָחִיו֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר דְּע֖וּ אֶת־יְהֹוָ֑ה כִּֽי־כוּלָּם֩ יֵדְע֨וּ אוֹתִ֜י לְמִקְּטַנָּ֤ם וְעַד־גְּדוֹלָם֙ נְאֻם־יְהֹוָ֔ה כִּ֤י אֶסְלַח֙ לַֽעֲוֺנָ֔ם וּלְחַטָּאתָ֖ם לֹ֥א אֶזְכָּר־עֽוֹד׃ {ס} No longer will they need to teach one another and say to one another, “Heed Hashem”; for all of them, from the least of them to the greatest, shall heed Me-declares Hashem. For I will forgive their iniquities,And remember their sins no more.

[@plazima]

@jdaluvsjesusalready have

[@Aiden-ku6yg]

16:40 Canada’s EAS is called “ Alert Ready Canada” and their National Weather Service is called “ Environment Canada” so they say “ Environment Canada has issued a flash flood warning for southeastern Alberta”

[@billofwrights7695]

China’s alarm is actually used for emergency broadcasting and civil defense sirens at the same time; this is mostly used for severe earthquakes.

[@elevenkninteen]

I'm actually in the EAS community you mentioned, and I've been a part of it for nearly 6 years. This is one of the best videos explaining it that I've seen. Normally people just group in CONELRAD, EBS, EAS, and local emergencies all in one, despite them being their own separate things. Not to mentioned you actually talked about how the SAME codes work as well, nobody ever really does that. Loved this vid for all of those things :)

[@JamesOKeefe-US]

I was convinced as a child that every EAS warning was the inevitable nuclear attack. Truly terrifying every dang time. Ugh.

[@Bear-cm1vl]

Realizing this is an older video, it did not touch on several layers of both the US EBS and EAS national systems. I was an overnight broadcast tech in the 1980's and had to handle these situations on a fairly regular basis. The EBS "dual tones" were transmitted from "master stations", usually the most high power stations in any area, who received the authorization and message from what was referred to as National Command, a part of the Federal Government. The Master Stations broadcasted the alert tones to their area and any secondary stations in their coverage had an EBS receiver with a circuit called a crystal detector specifically designed to "hear" the two frequencies of the dual tone alert sound. If all was working properly, the EBS receiver would automatically shut off all audio to the local station's transmitters, patch in the master station's audio, retransmit the EBS warning tones and begin playing the transmission received from the master station. After the message was transmitted and the audio informed the network that it had finished, the tech at each station reset the EBS receiver and return to regular broadcasting, issuing the station's legal ID and returning to programming. If something went wrong with the automatic system, the tech had to manually transmit the dual tone EBS alert signal from the receiver and read the message transmitted on air or record and replay the message transmitted by the Master Station. The stations in the system were tiered with major stations feeding the signal to smaller stations, who fed smaller stations, etc... The network was often referred to as the EBS tree because of this network. When the EAS was implemented, the receiver "listened" for it's area ID in the data burst and completed the process automatically, allowing fully automated stations to also repeat the message. Early EAS used the master station system and the data burst it transmitted to trigger the receiver, but newer systems can listen for a master station trigger or receive the data directly from an Internet connection, keeping the master station as a backup communications route.

[@P4brotagonist]

That distorted EBS test gave me actual chills. Growing up these scared the everloving shit out of me, especially having been through multiple tornadoes. Even now as an adult, they trigger an innate fear that my house is about explode in a roar of wind.

[@AmyraCarter]

I can see why. Even if explained, I can see how it would still trigger such responses. Trauma never goes away; *_Yume Nikki_* demonstrates that very well.

[@salt907]

I literally was born and live where Amber Hagerman lived and got kidnapped in Arlington Texas so here the EAS is associated with Amber Alerts because there are so many children getting kidnapped 😭

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

For 1990's tech it's pretty amazing that it works. I've been the Chair for the EAS committee in orange County California for almost 20 years (stepped down at the end of 2022). If you ever have questions, let me know. I also made a video about the National Periodic Test with audio samples. There was an EAN test in Alaska in 2011, I think, that tested the whole chain from FEMA to the White House to the broadcast stations. This was because they didn't really have any procedures for testing to the public before. That Alaska EAN Test will be what an EAN would sound like today.

[@StormChasingNinja]

What does EAN stand for? Is it specific to Alaska and if so why? Do they get tests or warning for stuff as often as the rest of the country does?

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

@@StormChasingNinja EAN is Emergency Action Notification. That’s the message from the President or their designeee. The first test was only for Alaska because there was no chance of it accidentally leaking out into the lower 48 states and causing problems. It had never been tested in real world before that.

[@brenparker1156]

@@StormChasingNinjaEAN stands for Emergency Action Notification

[@nssrrailfan]

The phone alert just recently went off for me, saying that a neighboring county ‘SHOULD NOT USE WATER’ and it scared the hell out of me. Turns out they were just replacing water mains.

[@tacticalmattfoley]

A small community in my state was hit by a tornado on Palm Sunday in 1994 causing the death of 20 people who were attending church services. As a result, more tornado sirens were installed in the community. One siren was about 50 yards from the local high school. The base of this siren was within feet of the football practice field. When that siren went off during school hours, it induced panic unlike anything I've ever witnessed....a shared panic related to a catastrophic event. It was truly an out of body experience to witness this panic first hand.....I witnessed someone go into what amounts to a trance, walk out of the school building and go home...without saying a word.

[@bogden9585]

Doubt it

[@shortking-vp9vv]

⁠@@bogden9585who tf would make up something like this, add small details, then post it on a mid-size weather YT channel for clout

[@thepestilence5796]

​@shortking-vp9vv fr bruh i was about to say that smh

[@echo_soldier]

My high school had a siren right in our front lawn. Never scared me, but it was very loud since it was so close

[@elflingskitten]

​@@bogden9585 You probably think the Earth is flat, too

[@TerminalFailSafe]

I grew up on military bases the first 17 years of my life and during that that time attended military base schools and vast majority military student population schools and academies. I am now in my sixth decade and have specific and intense memories. I also lived in many tornado active areas and to this day have an alert radio and keep my cell phone on and next to the bed. I have taught everyone in my immediate family weather, police and fire safety planning. Yes, we have a specific meeting point in the event of a fire or carbon monoxide warning. Having worked in Emergency healthcare, law enforcement and a volunteer firefighter for 30+ years, the are energy medical, survival and “personal protection’ equipment in each vehicle and every level (floor) of our homes. I appreciate and enjoy your videos! Keep up the great work and I often send your KZbin videos to old friends and family often to say “do you remember these or that event”.

[@KayPrescesky]

Thank you for your service and sacrifices, both to your country and your communities. They are not forgotten, nor in vain.

[@YonKaGorConvict]

I'm so terrified of the amber alert noise that I always keep my phone on silent, and it sends shivers up my spine just hearing it

[@meanmachine272]

Somehow you gotta do a collab with Pecos Hank…just talk about tornadoes for a whole dang video haha

[@Russian_Storm]

i strongly approve this.

[@a3denclaggett254]

@@Russian_Stormsame here

[@theemotransenby]

YES PLEASE

[@o.m.p.h.4483]

Immediately.

[@TitaniumTurbine]

2024 is really going to be the year of the fan-forced collabs isn’t it? Ehhh Swegle and Hank operate differently, it would just be super awkward.

[@ThePolarBearProductions]

“Like some of them are genuinely scared” Yep. My mother grew up at the height of the Cold War. I can’t play my Tornado Siren videos around her because of the memories. She had nightmares for a week after watching “The Day After”

[@Stable_Genius]

The Day After is extremely depressing. Watched it for the first time about 13 years. Won't ever watch again.

[@Tiredmiata]

@@Stable_Geniuswhat was it about?

[@Stable_Genius]

@@Tiredmiata film breakdown kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3XJYWChZr2Zr7csi=2FOT7x1Tb12WZfq8

[@Stable_Genius]

@@Tiredmiata a nuclear exchange btw NATO and Warsaw Pact countries (US and the SU). Focus is more so on the aftermath and how characters try to survive. Film was tv drama that aired in 1983, IIRC. I posted a yt film breakdown, but it was apparently deleted.

[@drumline17]

Is playing tornado siren videos around people something you normally do?

[@theedmee]

This happened during the 80s, too! EBS is the sound that haunts my dreams, lol. The EAS was far less traumatizing, since I was in high school by then.

[@charalinedreemurr2953]

I live in a rural neighborhood, we only have one Tornado siren that's farther in town, so out where I am, you can't hear it. I actually purchased my own 150db bi directional siren that runs off a 110 power supply. The in town siren is tested every first Tuesday of the month, and I test mine on the same time as theirs. During severe storms, I keep an ear out, listening to the National Weather Service and activating my siren if a Tornado Warning is issued for my county. Usually, it's supposed to be a backup since people out in the neighborhood can barely hear the one in town.

[@paulstejskal]

What’s scary for me is we don’t have super loud sirens near where we live. If we are sound asleep and a tornado comes we could be in trouble. Thankfully our dogs howl at it when they test Mondays at noon.

[@shainamathey9391]

​@paulstejskal have you looked at getting a weather radio?

[@shainamathey9391]

That's an awesome move!

[@paulstejskal]

@@shainamathey9391 no but it isn’t a bad idea. They had them at a bank and it came in handy one year when we were there.

[@mar11983]

Honestly, bless you for this. I would absolutely LOVE my own siren. Been fascinated by them since I was a kid. You’ll save someone’s life with that thing!!

[@Magdalenasfears]

Scariest wea alert i got was driving my semi through Springfield MO and that alert went off while i was in bumper to bumper traffic. I started reading it just as the tornado sirens went off. All i could do was message my family in Michigan and tell them what color and my truck number and what exit i was near, and if they didn't hear back in an hour, alert the local authorities to look for me. Luckily i was eventually able to get my semi to a pull off, then a rest area with a tornado shelter

[@turtle2448thomas]

Let me guess, you were driving for Prime?

[@Magdalenasfears]

@turtle2448thomas no lol. Never drove for that company. I was with a company called Rush Trucking at that time. Drove for Crete for quite a while before that, and started with swift haha.

[@uplinktruck]

It really sucks to be on the road when that alert goes off and there is no cover for miles. All you can do is try to stay out of it.

[@ErinBeanz]

One of the worst things about Springfield, all the highways. I hate living near there, especially when you have to drive through storms

[@Domi39]

Civil Defense logo absolutely freaks me out too. My dad was our local fire chief and I remember I happened to find the siren control box while I was poking around the fire station and it had the big CD logo on it and 4 buttons: "test", "alarm", "fire", and "attack". And I remember the realization hitting me like a truck.

[@jackcabadas3976]

The Hawaii aleart was actually an EAS alert, that also set off a WEA alert, the main video from it is a EAS banner interrupting a Basketball game. But very few people even mention WEA’s existence, good on you!

[@JoeMun]

Swegel, I must say you are one of my absolutely low-key favorite subscriptions on YT. I've been a tornado nut since I was a little kid (my local meterologist came to my elementary school and signed my weather book in first grade). This video uncocked a memory when I was maybe 8-9 years old when my small town in Ohio had a tornado warning and the sirens went off. As it turned out, the tornado was only EF-0 and missed the town completely, but I vividly remember standing at the door and hearing the siren and crying really bad. I went to the basement and hid there for 10-15 minutes. Quite the shocker and even today the sirens still unnerve me (kinda the point like you said). Thanks for the glorious content and keep it coming.

[@FloppaTheXXV]

0:37 I just remembered where this was from bro It was when the news studio realized their screen was a touchscreen that could move, zoom in and out, and tilt

[@CJB4476]

Everytime the EAS does the test of it or a warning of some sort, I get chills down my back and arms, don't know why

[@justalonelypoteto]

it's doing exactly what it should, scare everyone shitless because that's the kind of situation it's meant for. Probably also contributes to us reacting more to it, i.e. when sleeping or something like that (can confirm it does, I forgot about our first nation-wide test for cell broadcast EAS in Germany and slept right up until 11AM, that incessent beep from my nightstand made me shoot up in seconds. Great alternative since our govt doesn't bother maintaining the sirens we have, you can barely hear them in a silent neighborhood in the backyard)

[@SkywalkerFilms1927]

@@uxsquaredI've never seen that logo before today, yet I get that same feeling, and my eyes get teary for some reason, even when I think about it. I think it is because of how similar that logo is to the top of the Eye of Providence pyramid. For some reason, I wonder if, even though it is supposed to be a symbol of God's watching over us, it is a demonic symbol of some kind. My Dad's first though upon seeing the Eye of providence on the US dollar was that it was a demonic symbol. Why else would I have the goosebumps, muscle tightening, teary eyes, and uneasiness about that CD triangle?

[@snowbird1381]

Because Heaven forbid we get the one that’s not a test.

[@CJB4476]

​@snowbird1381 where I live, which is in NY, I don't get too many severe storms or even tornadoes so all they do is the test to make sure it's working

[@RadeonVega64]

fight or flight response?

[@MichanaAlerting]

The EAS does still have a very practical use today. The National Weather Service broadcasts EAS alerts over NOAA Weather Radio to activate household weather alert radios. These radios receive and decode the SAME headers so they can play a specific siren and display a specific message for each alert. Even when they're not sounding off, the band still uses "the voice" to tell regular weather information or relay previous alerts that are still effective. These radios have existed for decades and are still widely used as another form of emergency notification in individual homes. Like tornado sirens, people have huge fascinations with then and have huge collections of tens or hundreds of different models. There is a wide range of information available on KZbin or the Internet in general, and it's definitely worth the search if you're interested.

[@emrilbennett8704]

Hi. I love those things. I got my first little handheld last week!

[@carsausage]

Yeah I'm mostly aware of that chattering robot voice telling me that "tomorrow, expect a high of 73 degrees, under partly cloudy skies".

[@SaturnIsCringing]

As someone mortified of these specific noises thank you so much for uploading this bro I feel so seen

[@theinternetfrog930]

i’m so glad you mentioned eas mock scenarios! i love watching those scenarios, there’s some really amazing ones such as a scenario about an ef6 in texas, or one called don’t look up about a super nova causing people who look at it to freeze in place. others i like are the awakening and industrial fire, both are pretty good zombie outbreak scenarios.

[@nursestoyland]

And one about wendigoes and the polar express

[@LadyBeyondTheWall]

I love them too! Some are goofy, but some are SUPER creepy.

[@EpicgamerGTG]

Don't Look Up is insane

[@jjmetrejhon1743]

Where do you find these? Are they available here on KZbin (and what should I search to find them)? Edit: I just got to that point in the video, definitely going to have to give these a go!

[@EpicgamerGTG]

@@jjmetrejhon1743 there are plenty on KZbin. To find them I'd recommend searching EAS scenario

[@dspannplayspiano]

As a young boy I was extremely brontophobic. Mixed with weather alerts like these, it was nightmare fuel. I was COMPLETELY different as I got older and to this day I absolutely love thunderstorms and also went through a tornado craze, which seems to come back every year. Love this channel and content!

[@Idkwhattoput151]

Holy shit the first photo on google for brontophobia scared the shit outta me

[@SAVAGEAVIATIONYT]

@@Idkwhattoput151what is it?

[@Idkwhattoput151]

@@SAVAGEAVIATIONYT it’s a girl running with a baby from a cloud with a face

[@SAVAGEAVIATIONYT]

WTH lol

[@gatoromerop]

I can totally relate to this, it was like 4 AM and then my mom woke me up and we went downstairs and tuned on the TV. I heard this terrifying screech and a weird screen come up as they told us that a tornado was a current risk, so we got in the bathroom and put on bicycle helmets to protect against debris. So scary 😱

[@NewEnglandOtaku]

Hearing that last part was nice... when Weather Channel was my favorite channel.. I always watched it while in the hospital.. I used it to help me sleep.. I sit there for awhile watching it and fall asleep eventually.

[@dmphax]

I thought I was the only one! I loved having The Weather Network on for background noise all day & to sleep at night. Now I just use Spotify & music, plus a dimmed light in my bedroom to sleep.

[@jackstone8074]

0:55 is basically what Earthquake warnings in Japan are like 😂 But yeah I love how he always talks about the super nerdy and creepy stuff I'm fascinated with like tornadoes, sirens, nukes, etc. He should do a video on numbers stations too! Also it wasn't just cars, I believe at one point all radios had to have the CONELRAD frequencies marked with a civil defense triangle.

[@fsstickman1]

As I’m watching I just received propbably the first eas in the uk. Great video pls make part 2

[@JUJU_OFFICAL]

6:40 Hus voice is actully calming, it's just the siren that gets me

[@christinescreativitycabine280]

I was a DJ on my college's radio station back in the late 70s and early 80s. We had to do EBS tests every once in awhile, but we didn't read a script. The audio for the test was recorded on a cartridge tape (called a "cart") which we simply played over the air. The cart was recorded by the station manager, who read from the script.

[@obscurevisions91]

Dude I love your videos and how much you can tell you genuinely enjoy the content you talk about!!

[@dyl9013]

The song "Fallout Shelter" by Scott Peters is where I learned the Conelrad frequency, but didn't know the context at the time. "You'll be living like a king in your fallout pad, dial six four o - twelve four o - conelrad"

[@DarkStone1979]

It was infinitely creepier for me to be casually listening to this video, getting Local 58 vibes, and then hear you mention St. Joseph, Missouri twice, the town where I've lived my entire life.

[@hughjanus6975]

Using perfect dark music is just awesome. Super happy to hear it being used.

[@isabellegalletly1814]

I live in new Zealand and when i was a kid all we had was old reused air raid sirens. to know what was going on you would have to time how long it went for. problem is the voluntary fire service used that same siren multiple times a day. you would hear the siren and you would cross your fingers that it wouldn't last over two minutes or you'd have to get moving. we later had earthquakes and those sirens were used. straight up trauma. the current warning alarm here is super weird. look it up. awsome video

[@lillith-kagari]

also kiwi here, our variety of emergency sirens and alert tones is honestly insane. why do some regions have different sounding tsunami sirens? why is the standard building evacuation siren so hard to understand? why is the emergency alert siren we broadcast over the radio Like That?

[@doctorworm420]

Also a kiwi and I remember camping as a kid in like 2002 and getting my dad to take me to the campsite bathroom in the middle of the night and there was US American couple staying there crying and freaking out because the volunteer fire brigade siren went off and they thought it was some kind of emergency alert siren (it sounds like a fuckin air raid tbh) but I hadn’t even noticed it because we lived close to the volunteer fire station at the time and I was so used to hearing it it’s like car alarms to me now. My Dad thought it was pretty funny but I feel sorry for them because like if your context was tornado sirens and 9/11 it’s a scary sound to hear at night.

[@doctorworm420]

@@lillith-kagari yeah! why are they so hard to understand all the time?! it’s like so degraded that at that point you’re like listening to Mr Bean language? It’s so outdated and the iOS alerts are dependent on you having a newer phone with 4G/5G otherwise I hope the flash flood waits the hour and a half it takes to get to my shit tier old iPhone

[@lillith-kagari]

@@doctorworm420 I feel like telling a usamerican "don't worry bro it's just a fire siren" is almost a rite of passage for kiwis at this point... also sorry to hear about the state of emergency alerts on your phone :/ my android's already 5+ years old so I'll need to replace it soon (still running strong though)

[@noahpruitt9245]

Huh. Must be a bunch of suburban Americans taking trips to NZ. Rural America still heavily uses old left-over CD sirens for fire calls, despite most of us also using modern pagers (Unication & Motorola are popular in NC) and ActiveAlert. When I'm driving in a different area and hear sirens, I think VFD, not war lol. Just my experience.

[@charlayned]

I remember the sirens going off in like 1961 in our area of Texas due to tornadoes. We had tests every Friday at noon of them and my mom always told me that if they went off any other time, I was to get under the baby bed in the back bedroom (no hiding in the halls back then, it was the SE corner of a house). I was the oldest so i was to get my siblings under there with me. Well, one night we had a teen babysitter while mom was at the laundry mat. The sirens went off and my baby sitter panicked. Her dad came running down and took her to the house to hide and left us there (I guess not thinking straight). I grabbed my sister and her blanket from in the baby bed (she was about 1), my brother, age 3, came running and got under with me, and we all sat there crying when mom came running in. She let me get out and stand on a chair and I remember distinctly seeing hooks (ie: funnels) in the distance against what light was left. Scared me silly and it took until my 40s to get over the jump any time a warning came up. Moving away from the panhandle to Houston in 1991 helped too. And having a former chaser as a husband who could calm me down did as well. So I think individual communities used those sirens well before the national use for tornado events. I know I ended up in the basement several times in the evenings as tornados played around the panhandle.

[@charlayned]

And when I was a DJ back in the late 80s, I got to read those things at the station. We had carts (something like 8-track cartridges but better quality) but none for a tornado watch. The NWS would alert us on the teletype (yeah, we had a dot matrix printer--still called teletype) and we would have the verbiage to read to the listeners. I think my statement was like "Folks, this is message just received from the National Weather Service in Amarillo. The following counties are now under a tornado watch." and a string of the counties, including the ones I was in and then "Please stay tuned to this station or your local television station for further alerts. If this watch goes into a warning, you'll be instructed to go to an interior room or a basement/storm shelter. This, again, is a tornado WATCH, tornadoes may form in the following counties........." I think the written thing was better than this memory, but it's the idea of it and I had to do it twice in the two years I worked at that station.

[@matthewcase2205]

Just listening to the message @ 6:23 made my eyes well up with tears...I have always had an issue with these emergency tones.

[@pikadeb]

Living in New Jersey in the 1970s , (not a tornado state), these darn things were just annoying!! "BEEEEEEP BEEEEEEP THIS IS A TEST OF THE EMERGENCY BROADCAST SYSTEM. THIS IS ONLY A TEST." We would just sigh and wait for our program to come back on.

[@BrandonCarraway91]

Very informative - couple of things about the EAS: the tones are really used to turn on an alert feature of certain radios. There are “weather radios” that are always on and listening for these tones, at which point will show on their displays information from the tones - then the radio will turn down the squelch to play the broadcast - at the end of the broadcast is another set of tones, telling the radio that the broadcast is over and thus turning the squelch back up, effectively turning off the audio. The NWS has 7 total frequencies that are constantly playing the weather broadcast over the air - many cheap walkie-talkies have these programmed in so you can tune to them and listen constantly. Some other two-way radios can go a step further and visually alert you if an EAS alert is being sent (say if you turned down your radio). This is a very low-detail expansion and doesn’t cover certain aspects or nuances of the system. Great video!

[@joanafeit4478]

I remember when I was younger, me and my brother would wake up to watch TV early in the morning. As an SF kid, every morning there were warning of a child abduction for stupid things. These warnings scared the living crap out of me and my brother as we would wake up our parents. 😂 Love your videos! Keep up the great work. Underated channel here.

[@Roz-90]

13:40 as a nerdy weather kid, I was able to pick out which alerts came from which NWS office on the weather radio because of the different SAME tones. We had an older weather radio that took in signals from a long range of stations. I still have it for the nostalgia, along with a modern programmable one. I never knew the names or parts of the tones until now. Neat!

[@aMiyafuji]

That China countdown was meant for earthquakes. It's supposed to count down to when the earthquake is supposed to hit the area. I've seen many videos of it where someone is videoing from their apartment and the sirens outside have the countdown going, and right when it stops and the alarm hits, the quake starts.

[@icecreamyummycookie]

There's also phone alert with the same countdown system.

[@allp1nk92]

That's amazing that technology is advanced enough to know the second an earthquake hits beforehand

[@eggnogalcoholic]

9:26 HOL’ UP BACK UP - this man “gets into the mood” for tornado season like how I get cozy into the Christmas season?? Am I hearing this correctly??

[@bdnightshade]

I grew up on Air Force bases in the 1960s and 70s; those old EBS warnings were definitely attention getting. But nothing ever freaked me out more than the warning sirens. Hawaii used to test the tsunami warnings on the first of every month at noon, and where we lived in Aiea (sp?) the sirens would echo terribly. It didn't help that our next duty station, Offutt, used the same type of sirens for both tornado warnings and civil defense. The warning alert on my weather radio is freaky (especially at night), but to this day, that long, drawn out wail is the scariest.

[@emrilbennett8704]

They’re both so viscerally creepy. Just dig a hole in my soul but that’s why I love them.🖤

[@SkolneyVikings]

11:40 Oh god, we had those exact ones back in the day that would scare me shitless. If I knew storms were around, I would only watch TV with the volume way down.

[@JeannieKelsheimer-q8b]

In Dodge City Kansas, the EBS test would kick on the same time as the sirens would go off every Saturday during cartoons and scare the living daylights off of me that you played at 11:14

[@jlutz63]

My craziest experience with an amber alert is that I was sitting in the lunch room at my high school and an alert went off and every phone in the room went off at the same time which was crazy to hear.

[@colestock9980]

Canada’s EAS has nearly made me shat myself a few times. Soon i believe we’re gonna get a test and they send a notification to our phones, SOUND AND ALL. So one second you’re happily working or studying, the next, your phone is screaming it’s head off, it’s vibrating like mad, you’re rushing towards it to see what the hell is going on and to shut it up to read in peace while your heart is going crazy. That hi-lo tone definitely snaps one’s attention in a heartbeat. They also use it for amber alerts (missing child)

[@colestock9980]

Yeah, happened last week. Scared the shit out of me again 🤣

[@greatmatt301]

@Obviousthrowawayaccount I think they want every single person to look and hopefully read the notification so the alert is put into the back of their mind. IDK if a less extreme notification would do that. I would be curious to see if kids have ever been saved by it though, if none of them have and its been how long then maybe you're right.

[@hertzwave8001]

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[@Slaps-Bigmeat]

I actually fucking hate the canada eas alarm (because i live in canada (alberta to be exact))

[@YurtFerguson]

12:29 is a much more impactful alert than you'd actually know. That alert was from the May 3rd 1999 turn tornado season in Oklahoma and was actually the first recorded "tornado emergency alert" which was pretty much made up on the spot there because the possible damage factor of the tornado actually had a possibility of exceeding the current fujita scale. This one proving to live up to the newly minted alert as it easily hit the ceiling on the F5 rating and decimated Moore Oklahoma. This being the final and most deadly tornado in a terrible day for the central United States that ended with over 74 tornadoes in a single 24-hour period that not long after forced meteorologist to rebuild the fujita scale into the enhanced fujita scale just because of how it was able to within a margin of error effectively break the boundaries of current classification. There's a great video made by EMP lemon called "2 Days in Moore Oklahoma" that talk more about it that's a great watch after you're done watching this.

[@B_MAD_24]

A bit of a correction on conlerad. The reason why you had to change frequencies at the time fighter planes used RF frequencies to navigate. If you were the enemy, you would use frequencies to lock in at a target. The changing of frequencies was an attempt to keep navigational instruments from locking in on a target. All radio stations had to have two crystals on their transmitters. The system was unstable, but one of the reasons why it was trashed is because the transmitters are getting worn out from the constant changing of the carrier. "It was the stress test of the radio station transmitters"

[@nacinthewoods8464]

The Sioux City alert at 11:34 sure could cause an emergency. That lighting and sound could easily bring on a seizure to folks with epilepsy. 😳 I do enjoy your videos and your voice. Keep on keeping on.

[@alexrodriguez4238]

The 11:34 one isn’t scary to me

[@ladyrapture4170]

Recently in Australia we had a stabbing attack at a Westfield shopping centre and ever since then they have created more specified esa alerts that play on all the adverts screens and large screens throughout the centre so people know if something is occurring within the centre. It was haunting to see it being tested.

[@randy25rhoads]

Dude your channel has become one of my favorites. I recently watched a few EAS scenario videos. Love ‘em.

[@emrilbennett8704]

Yeah, they’re pretty cool

[@walkerjames-ou6qt]

When I was younger, I used to have the radio on when I slept. I had it on for so long that I would be able to sleep through the EAS alert, and to this day I'm not that scared when I hear it.

[@kyleeagainnnnn]

@@walkerjames-ou6qt Same! Except it only heightened my fear :(

[@sopwithhannah2401]

As a Canadian I love that you acknowledged how terrifying our alarm tone is haha

[@Davids_Hobbies]

In New Jersey there's a guy who owns a dark blue with a white roof 1962 Plymouth Savoy station wagon that has East Hanover Civil Defense logos on the front doors. It's got a whole bunch of red emergency lights all over too, as well as a gigantic broadcasting antenna on the passenger side front fender. Just imagine seeing that parked in someone's driveway or on the road in the 60's. That would be super scary.

[@rymacreeks2k07]

nowadays that’s cool as fuck, back then though, terrifying

[@TheColorHopeIsBlue]

When I was in high school I had a brief hyperfixation on the EAS and nuclear strikes after I found a post on tumblr that had the alarm audio from that one 15 min scenario about a nuclear attack on Kansas. The whole thing is super creepy because all you see is a black screen (and I *think* the analog font?) and hear the warnings as they come in (watch in the dark at your own risk). But the initial warning combines the air raid siren with the SAME code tones and TTS voice and it’s just so masterfully done that you feel actual terror listening to it. Anyway, after I found that post, for a while I just watched a lot of EAS vids cuz it was like, I was so scared of it that I had to see more of it. It was like satisfying a morbid curiosity. But after enough times of rewatching that 15 min nuclear attack vid I became so terrified of those tones and of the idea of hearing them just before a nuclear attack warning (watching The Day After in my senior year of high school, completely on my own volition btw, did not help). I started getting sweaty hands and the shakes whenever I would see an EAS-type screen or hear the alarm on a weekly test on TV. Nowadays I still get a little jolt of the heebie jeebies looking at/hearing that stuff but I can remain calm. However, I still try not to hear the alarms if I don’t have to, so I watched this whole video on mute with captions. It’s exposure therapy 😂

[@StormChasingNinja]

On mute with captions 😂😂😂 I legit kept lowering the volume when he kept playing the current alert tones because I am so traumatized from when I was a kid that I just can’t stand to listen to it too loud

[@corvettezone1771]

I was never super scared of the EAS sounds but I for some reason during the 2020 lockdown ended up scaring myself so bad because I got super interested in EAS scenario videos (I remember one called Do Not Look Up, that was horrifying to 12 year old me) and now whenever I hear any EAS I feel a tingle everywhere. Clearly my interest still shows up every now and then since I’m writing this comment under a video about the history of EAS.

[@aze4308]

what was the audio?

[@Averysillygoose09]

8:54 About six months ago I woke up to that siren BLARING from my iPad. Good thing I had that because there were 3 confirmed tornadoes near my house 😭 it was terrifying I thought it was a nuke

[@damdamfino]

I missed a bunch of emergency alerts on my phone for weird reasons, but the tv alerts are still going strong, even interrupting DVR recordings, on demand movies, and streaming services just for tests. Annoying as they are, I kinda hope they never abandon the lo-fi analog look and vibe. It’s iconic.

[@xXJMatherXx]

My parents were on Kauai when the missile alert went off. My dad called me to see if I had heard anything to see if it was real. I was on the internet searching for 20 minutes before I found that it was a false alarm. While my dad was on the phone with me he literally asked what he should do. All I could tell him was to find a way to get under ground. He responded with, "We are on a tiny island. There isn't really an underground." In all seriousness though, it was terrifying not knowing what the hell was going on for 20 or so minutes. I genuinely thought I had just lost my parents and that was the last time I would get to talk to my dad.

[@hollymccormack4081]

That must have been awful!

[@stevenschnepp576]

Not that it does much good now, but finding a good-sized hill to put in between you and the nearest big city, getting into a trench, or going into the sewers are all... options.

[@Afiddlerontheroof]

I live in Oklahoma and it’s terrifying every time you hear those noises especially when you live in the one city that gets hit every year.

[@aronoc3599]

This video was like a safe space for learning more about the alert system. Nicely done! Not long after I moved cities, I discovered that the radio station I had on my morning alarm ran their EAS tests on Tuesday mornings right around the time I woke up. The long pause before the duck farts was enough to freak me out because I knew what was coming next. That was a horrible month of Tuesday mornings before I figured it out, lol. The tone definitely does its job well. Too well.

[@emrilbennett8704]

Duck farts? I’ve always wondered why they called them that🦆💨

[@iamathousandapples]

I love these. I grew up adjacent to tornado Alley and Dixie Alley and later moved to a place that basically doesn't get severe weather so these noises are very nostalgic. Reminds me of rainy afternoons watching one of the main affiliates like a hawk while a tornado destroys some rural area half an hour away

[@brandonmartin9298]

When i was a kid and id be hanging out with my grandpa and dad in the farm shop we had a radio playing country music and i still remember when id see the black clouds coming in and then the radio would cut broadcasting and switch to the attention signal, bitter sweet moments