"Air-Raid Siren" noise in Southampton

[anonymous-user]

WTF is it? It's the third time that I've heard it today, am I about to be nuked? Been living here several years and I haven't noticed it before.

[Neil.D]

Schnell! Schnell! Ja lässt der luftwaffe einen anderen gehen, streikend an ihrer Landungsposition!

Nine, it is das 'tea breaks' signal for das dock verkers ya.

[SS2.]

Fawley undertaking tests to the warning sirens again ?

[darrencollins]

I heard it from my office in Grovesnor Square as well. Rumour has it it's Fawley.

[xllifts]

It is Fawley hopefully they are just testing if not kiss your asses goodbye!

My other half used to service the lifts there and unofficially if you hear that alarm its adios Southampton.

[krusty]

If Fawley ever goes up (Specifically The Seven Sisters) the blast radius is up to the Civic Centre.......

[Huntsman]

Symbolica said:

WTF is it? It's the third time that I've heard it today, am I about to be nuked? Been living here several years and I haven't noticed it before.

I've been hearing it a lot for the the last few days, we look out over Southampton Water so I guess if Fawley went up in a big way our windows would come in!

BP Hamble have a big siren too.

Never mind the sirens, the bloody fog horns this weekend were a right pain.

[Dogwatch]

Was it the alarm (rising and falling note) or the all-clear (steady note)?

If the former - Panic!

School fire alarm was a full-size siren on a walkway right outside a first floor window


edited as alarm and all-clear were wrong way round - whatamistakatomaka

Edited by Dogwatch on Wednesday 15th October 09:37

[ironictwist]

Take cover?!

[97octane]

Couldn't happen to a nicer city!

[anonymous-user]

Well fortunately the City hasn't been annihilated (though it would be difficult to notice the difference sometimes), but I'm suprised I haven't noticed it before. If they test it so frequently then how am I supposed to know when to dive under the kitchen table, damnit!

krusty said:

If Fawley ever goes up (Specifically The Seven Sisters) the blast radius is up to the Civic Centre.......

Now that WOULD be worth seeing, hopefully it'll take all those bloody traffic lights with it.

[mrsxllifts]

krusty said:

If Fawley ever goes up (Specifically The Seven Sisters) the blast radius is up to the Civic Centre.......

One of the blokes I worked with down there commented that he would jump in to Southampton Water if the worst ever happened, til the Safety guy pointed out, that the water would no longer be there!

[4340BB]

Ah, you are all incorrect but i liked the guessing.
It is the siren in Marchwood military port for ammunition being on the port or being transitted through.
I know because i work there before any smart arses say otherwise.

[Karlos69]

I used to hear it when I went to school in Pompey. Could it have been the same one or would it have been something to do with the Naval bases?

[mikeveal]

It's the naval base at Marchwood loading and unloading live ammo.

[dwilkie]

The one in Portsmouth is the Nuclear Incident siren at the dockyard, they test it twice a year.

There's also another one for the FOD at Gosport which they hardly ever test, and I believe there's a nuclear incident siren at RNAD Gosport too but they don't test it. Because there's nothing nuclear there. No sir. Nope. Lies.

[cptsideways]

I just phoned someone in southampton & got a strange tone, you sure your all still there? awaits blast wave here in North Dorset......

[dwilkie]

If the blast wave reaches North Dorset then we've got real problems

[Thejimreaper]

I didnt think you would be able to hear my new Hella Airhorns all the way down in Southampton. It was me on my way to work, someone in an A3 TDi in lane 3 doing 110mph wouldnt get out of my way.

[Neil.D]

Thejimreaper said:

I didnt think you would be able to hear my new Hella Airhorns all the way down in Southampton. It was me on my way to work, someone in an A3 TDi in lane 3 doing 110mph wouldnt get out of my way.

Why not undertake like normal?