“The Tuesday Noon Siren” is a wonderful mini documentary produced by 72hours.org about San Francisco’s Outdoor Warning System. Made in conjunction with the SF Department of Emergency Management, the film profiles Cesar Santos the DEM dispatcher who runs the 15 second siren test every Tuesday at noon.
via SFist
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In the early 80s, I was walking down Masonic towards Geary to take a bus to one of my classes. It was during fleet week (something I was unaware of at that time) at noon, the siren went off, 5 jets in formation flew over me. The two startling noises caught me off guard & I thought it was a soviet invasion…
How interesting. I was just wondering the other day about the Tuesday noon siren’s (or, as we in the Lower Haight like to call it, the ‘burger alarm’)’s back story.
Wow, this made my week.
I suggest a new San Francisco tradition: as soon as the alert finishes every Tuesday all San Franciscans shout “Hail Cesar!” complete with arm gesture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_salute)
Remember: Tuesday is Solylent Green day.