if your employer has not taught you emergency procedures, I would leave the building.
It's not a siren in the building, it's the siren for the city. Like if a tornado or ICBM attack is coming....
Willow, check you out! Witch-Fu!
Buffy ,'Lessons'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Jan 08, 2010 8:19:37 am PST #179 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
msbelle - Jan 08, 2010 8:21:31 am PST #180 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
city website?
tommyrot - Jan 08, 2010 8:22:53 am PST #181 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh, it means there's a Snow Emergency, and you must move your car to the other side of the street or else it will get towed.
They also send city vehicles around with loudspeakers telling you to move your car (they did this earlier today).
So to sum up, the siren means either tornado, nuclear attack or move your car.
Jesse - Jan 08, 2010 8:25:36 am PST #182 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Brilliant.
Polter-Cow - Jan 08, 2010 8:25:59 am PST #183 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
A New Kind of Truth. Specifically about videogames, applicable to many media.
§ ita § - Jan 08, 2010 8:26:31 am PST #184 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I can only imagine Conan is pissed. The idea of him keeping Leno down to half an hour is something, but at the expense of an earlier show somewhere else?
At my company they had a drill where we were supposed to get under our desks. Except no one told me the drill was coming or what I was supposed to do. It was quite surreal.
tommyrot - Jan 08, 2010 8:29:04 am PST #185 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
When I was in college I had a job delivering intercampus mail in a panel truck. One day the tornado sirens went off in the city. Dunno what I was thinking, but I kept on driving. Someone asked me what the siren was for and I said, "I think it means you're supposed to seek shelter." But I just kept on working, watching for traffic and tornadoes as I went....
Ginger - Jan 08, 2010 8:37:02 am PST #186 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Neither work NOR public school was cancelled by our dusting of snow, though half the state seems to be closed (to be fair, they seem to have actually gotten some precipitation on the roads elsewhere - ours were dry.)
There was a 29-car pileup on I-285 this morning and police in my county worked more than 120 wrecks overnight. I got about an inch, and it's not going anywhere. I'm trying to decide if I should try to do something about the sheet of ice at the bottom of my driveway before I have to go out this afternoon.
So to sum up, the siren means either tornado, nuclear attack or move your car.
The sirens were also set off when the Sox won the '59 pennant.
P.M. Marc - Jan 08, 2010 8:45:06 am PST #187 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I did not know that!
I knew that, oddly enough.
Gudanov - Jan 08, 2010 8:49:29 am PST #188 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
Recent events seem to suggest Twitter.
In a bit of techy trivia, Ford is going to add a Twitter client to its cars.