This Sound Means Something's Gone Wrong - Traumathon 2

they are coming they are coming towards you they will be here soon will you be ready? This is the

sound

you hear when

something

goes

wrong

It's the

sound

we all heard when the clouds were gray and the rain started to rain heavily Sometimes it's the sound we hear before we're told someone is missing or maybe one day they will be the sound we hear before nuclear weapons fall. Just as scary as that scenario is the EAS or emergency alert system that was built to warn us of any of the ongoing situations. or emergencies that were going to happen when I was a child, I usually heard the EAS ring when I was missing school.

In the 90s and early 2000s, not many people stayed home, usually those who stayed home were children who dropped out of school, people who were injured at work, or housewives with nothing better than do, obviously

this

meant that

this

was the perfect time to test out the facilities and that made me regret skipping school, why exactly did it make that sound? What was the deal behind this? Well, curiously. Enough, that horrible screech at the beginning of the alert is apparently a digitized code called a digital header and is intended to communicate to the system what type of threat is present, what area it is affecting, and how long the threat will last.

It is repeated three times so that the system detects any errors that may have caused the source of these transmissions to come from different sources, but once these sources find a reason to display a message and warn people, it automates a message to that affected area. for example, one of those sources could be from the national weather service and suddenly they find a tornado somewhere in I don't know Wake County in North Carolina, the system will automate a message that will tell the EAS to broadcast the message and then the AIS chirps three times. and make sure the message is correct and good, it basically works the same way that dial-up internet used to work in the past, you know when it was

something

like that, it communicates back and forth between the source and the area, It's bad enough that I'm afraid of tornadoes, but now I have to listen to this banshee-like screech from a computer and keep in mind that this sound is supposed to keep us safe and conscious.

Yes, I am aware, very aware of the stains on my underwear, now, of course. As horrible as that sound is, nothing can compare to local access alerts, which are a lot like emergency alert systems, only it was more local and dealt with local authorities and anyone else who was currently in a position of power to alert local community warning systems. They were soon replaced by emergency alert systems, but I feel sorry for anyone who has heard the local alert systems because they seem much scarier. This is the 18th Wing command post at 15:00 local. The 18th Wing commander has declared a tropical storm warning for Okinawa.

Oh. satan is that you should keep in mind that even though the emergency alert system came out in 1997, local access alerts still helped everyone else who was not affected by emergency alert systems, not all of them reached At the same time, they had to be implemented. slowly one by one in each city and of course the major cities had them first rather than much smaller rural areas, but again this sound worked in much the same way that emergency alert systems work: they are digital headers that give you information and communicate with the entire community what they had to do in an emergency, honestly, just as fascinating as the digital header itself is that it never really stopped me from fearing what message the creepy voice had to say, always It's a very dull man coming out of nowhere telling you how I'm going to die tonight or some robot with little to no empathy or remorse, yet you're going to die with a bigger poison today.

I rarely hear this message on TV anymore, especially since you know I don't really pay for TV, I guess. most of us don't, although I still only hear it on my cell phone, it's for pretty much the same reasons: too bad weather, a kid went missing, some other horrible disaster, and Jesus Christ, do kids go missing in North Carolina? Can I mention that very quickly? Like when I lived there with my parents, oh God, as soon as I got my cell phone, that thing rang like every night about the disappearance of another child, what's

wrong

with you, what's there a sale of children for a lion's worth of food or something like that? although it's not just to warn you about the weather or missing children, it can also warn you about other disasters, although they aren't as frequent, so I wouldn't worry about the sound being the last thing you hear anytime soon, although accidents can It happened as shown in Hawaii one morning in January 2018, somehow the person who was supposed to test the emergency alert system accidentally clicked the button to warn everyone that they are about to die by cause of nuclear weapons.

You already know a common mistake, although it is not like that. It has to be something accidental, sometimes the eas can be activated just for fun, like that time someone hacked the eas and warned everyone that there was a zombie invasion. Civil authorities in your area have reported that the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacks on the living, please follow the messages on the screen which will be updated as information becomes available, do not attempt to approach or apprehend these bodies, as They are considered an extremely dangerous boy. I would feel bad for any snotty brat who missed school that day.

I probably thought it was real, but hey, let's not forget that the United States is not the only country in the world that cares about this. All over the world, people hear different types of chirps coming from their own personal emergency alert system, whether or not they function similarly to the one in the United States. It's really unknown to me, but if I had to hazard a guess, they're probably just as scary, if not worse, than the US EAS anyway. Let's listen to some of them. We'll greet John Slitter again from the office with the latest situation. on the ignition switch do not be alarmed, he has just heard the important message signal from the public warning system.

There are two other signals of the public warning system, namely the alarm and the all-clear signals. The all-clear signal sounds when the threat ends. and you can leave the shelter, this is the wartime broadcast service, this country has been attacked with nuclear weapons, communications have been severely disrupted and the number of victims and the extent of the damage are not yet known, you We will provide more information as soon as possible. meanwhile, be attentive to this wavelength, stay calm and stay in your own home, remember that there is nothing to be gained by trying to escape by leaving your homes, you could be exposing yourself to greater danger if you leave, you may find yourself without food, without water, without shelter and no protection and of course my absolute favorite the russian eas which just flashes and says warning while this horrible noise plays across your tv screen.

These are all pretty bad and I was actually going to end up showing you Japan. eas, which I felt was the most relaxing and calm way to tell you that you're going to die, but then I found out that they have an infinitely scarier one and yeah, listen to m food, holy shit, whether it's a zombie apocalypse or someone's child. getting caught one thing is for sure this sound is one of the scariest sounds we have ever heard and if I had to argue it's not just because it sounds scary but let's face it the message it can convey is sometimes twice as scary than any sound. can do