Gosh I hate this sound... reminds me of that feeling I used to get when we were hiding in our basement during a tornado! Luckily where I live now I think were done with tondados...
@HaisterCaisterShow Unfortunately, if you live anywhere where there's weather, you're not 100% safe from tornadoes. We thought the same thing here in Waco, Texas--that a tornado could never strike here--until the afternoon of May 11, 1953, when an F5 storm plowed into our city, claimed 114 lives and did about $42 million worth of structural damage. Interestingly, our only existing skyscraper, the 22-story Amicable Life Insurance Co. (now known as ALICO) Building was left almost totally intact.
We have fin-backed 4004s in our town, thought they were Vortexes at first too until they did a voice test over them. Reason I thought they were Vortexes is because it's rare when they do perform voice broadcasts over the sirens, most of the time it's tone only. I think they do voice once a month on the last Friday's test (tested every Friday in tone only, except for the last one).
OMG! You responded 2 years later LOL LOL LOL!
HaisterCaisterShow 11 months ago
Gosh I hate this sound... reminds me of that feeling I used to get when we were hiding in our basement during a tornado! Luckily where I live now I think were done with tondados...
HaisterCaisterShow 3 years ago
really scares me even though I'm in the UK and we will probably never get a single tornado!
04smallmj 3 years ago
@HaisterCaisterShow Unfortunately, if you live anywhere where there's weather, you're not 100% safe from tornadoes. We thought the same thing here in Waco, Texas--that a tornado could never strike here--until the afternoon of May 11, 1953, when an F5 storm plowed into our city, claimed 114 lives and did about $42 million worth of structural damage. Interestingly, our only existing skyscraper, the 22-story Amicable Life Insurance Co. (now known as ALICO) Building was left almost totally intact.
irishpride527 11 months ago
test
stlwx 3 years ago
I think so.
Siren1000T1 3 years ago
i don't remember vortex's having fins on the back of em....
Allertor125 3 years ago
They think putting Rudders on the back of them will help take stress off the rotators.
VMFA115Starloric 2 years ago
Gee Whelens have pretty decent sound coverage! Nice audio.
Siren1000T1 3 years ago
Those photos are of older model Vortexes, not 4004s.
carexpertandy 3 years ago
We have fin-backed 4004s in our town, thought they were Vortexes at first too until they did a voice test over them. Reason I thought they were Vortexes is because it's rare when they do perform voice broadcasts over the sirens, most of the time it's tone only. I think they do voice once a month on the last Friday's test (tested every Friday in tone only, except for the last one).
murrfarms 3 years ago