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This actually happened about a decade ago.
There I was taking a drive around town on a beautiful Saturday morning, soon after moving to another town for college, when the sirens started.
Air raid sirens.
I had never heard them before except when watching news from war torn countries.
I frantically scanned the skies, searching for planes, wondering what prompted the alarm. Also, why wasn't anyone reacting? What was I supposed to do? Is there a procedure for taking shelter?
In tears, I called my boyfriend, who was out of town visiting family where he grew up....
In tornado alley.
I never lived it down. (well, until the divorce)
In case you were not aware, many regions have weather sirens, which apparently get tested on occasion during fair weather... I grew up near the beach, where the only tornadoes are weak spinoffs of tropical weather systems. We don't even have weather sirens.
TL;DR: I heard weather sirens for the first time and thought we were being bombed
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