Some suburbs of Detroit still test their sirens on Saturdays.
We have some here in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (About 45 minutes outside of Toronto). They don’t test them regularily, but a few years back there was a malfunction during a heatwave…those things sound pretty scary in the middle of the night, even without a war!
A few months ago in October, some efftard at the police station here set off all of the 181 or so sirens at 3:30 am instead of hitting some other, less disturbing button. This was a night after the same police station set off the EAS “Emergency” announcement in lieu of the “test” version.
I live in a neighborhood just south of the Capital in Denver. Every month on a Tuesday, which just happened to be this last Tuesday at 11 am, the Air Raid siren is tested. When I first moved in this area I found it weird to hear. It reminded me of when we used to have the fire drills or emergency driils in Elementery school and we used to have to get down under the desk.
I live in next-door Mamaroneck and they still have the damned annoying siren that seems to go off at least once a day.
Back when I was in college, I lived in an apartment that was all too close to a tornado siren. One night there was a huge storm – massive winds, the works – and it went off. I was more concerned about losing my hearing than any damage the storm might do.
They still had them in Mount Vernon, NY when I was kid:
One day we were home from school for some sort of break, and my mom had left us younger ones with our older brothers. Well, my older bro thought it would be funny to freak (6 year old) me out and tell me that “those sirens mean that the aliens are attacking”, and that we had to evacuate the house. He walked me all around the block (by that time the air raid siren test was over) and told me “we can go back inside now, it’s safe”
Punk, I just remembered that, I have to figure out a way to get him back now.