This is only a test.

[beetiger]

The phone rang about 9:30 this morning, with a recorded message telling me that they would be testing the siren for the Indian Point nuclear facility at 10:00. Except for occasional bouts of activism every year or two, I usually try to forget that I live moderately near a nuclear plant with known safety issues. I groaned, since that's just about baby naptime, then proceeded to fret about how I would hook up with bard_bloom in an emergency, how we've laughed about the ridiculousness of the local government trying to convince people not to jam up the roads by placing a sign for a "nuclear evaculation bus stop" down the road from us.

It's the first time I've thought about having to get out of the area in a hurry since the baby arrived. Not only that, 10 am is baby naptime, so I figured we'd be off-schedule.

10:00 came and went with no siren sound. About 10:15 or so, there was a quick noise that sounded a little like a small truck beeping its horn once in a friendly way, which I suppose might have been the siren. I wouldn't have even noted it if not for the phone call. So the result of the siren test, from my point of view, is this: I'm worried that if there's a nuclear meltdown, I won't notice.

Comments

[schitzie.livejournal.com]

It's a nuclear meltdown... Lil' Mothra would have already mutated into the giant 50 foot version by then, so even without the siren, you'd notice!