Essex Flood Siren Test

Cold War Era Air Raid Siren used for flood warnings, this is the yearly test.
Sorry about the terrible all over the place footage, having to cover my ears, and record at the same time is difficult!

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[hootergirlsrhot]

sounds like my wife

[OfficeMackerel]

And I quote, "Sorry about the terrible all over the place footage, having to cover my ears, and record at the same time is difficult! "

Read the description.

[jackdal39]

whats this siren called

[djoska87]

Listen carefully from 4:00 sounds like a wee bit of chafing going on in that rotor housing...

[MyExtreme7]

cool

[kaiyan246]

@Nihil2005 are you crazy 2012 isnt true you silly

[modelearth]

FLOOD sirens providing an early warning system for coastal residents will be scrapped, it has been confirmed.

Essex County Council branded the system, which cost more than £16,000 a year to run, out of date.

There are 36 flood sirens across the county, including in West Mersea, Brightlingsea, Wivenhoe and Jaywick.

[dacomb]

@PascalR95 civil defense siren, air raid siren (check wiki)

[Nathanrailfan]

@PascalR95 it looks like a Castle Casting siren.

[PascalR95]

What's the name of these sirens?

[glitch4465]

We really need to bring these back widespread. SMS and Internet warning are simply not enough. The generation from the Cold War who knows the signals are still around so it wont take to long for the public to know about ciivil defense prcedures.

Plus im sure they're wuite cheap to make and sureley our new systems will be safer than EMP than the old phone wire systems.

[azz16901]

@glitch4465 ah ok, i guess i couldnt see it as they were doing biulding work around there, the council havent said no, they just dont know who is responsible for it lol, might as well just take it