Tornado sirens

[KintlaLake]

In Franklin County, Ohio today, there was a reported eight-minute delay between the National Weather Service issuing a tornado warning and the sounding of the first tornado sirens, which are activated by the Franklin County EMA.

Why?

According to the agency's deputy director, the EMA emergency-communications center isn't staffed weekends and holidays.

But wait, there's more.

He further explained that "the unfortunate thing was normally we have a tornado watch, which gives us a little bit of time to know that something might pop up. Unfortunately, this time there was nothing before the warning..."

Priceless. :rolleyes:

[Hersh]

That's got to make you feel good about your tax dollars.

[KintlaLake]

That's got to make you feel good about your tax dollars.

Actually, it makes me feel good that I own a weather radio, and even better that I learned how to read weather patterns many years ago. ;)