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by r4tbolts
Tue Dec 09, 2008 2:45 pm
Forum: Main Outdoor Warning Sirens Board
Topic: Muffled by the cows
Replies: 35
Views: 12551

That poor thing. I think it terrible that they don't even use it to create parts that will save others from dying off. Does anybody know if this siren was working at the time it was deactivated? Josh I'm pretty sure it's broke down or it would still be hooked up. I think it has been out of service ...
by r4tbolts
Tue Dec 09, 2008 4:31 am
Forum: Main Outdoor Warning Sirens Board
Topic: Muffled by the cows
Replies: 35
Views: 12551

My guess is this siren went up after the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak in the mid-sixties this area isn't too far from fatalities in that incident. Also this siren was in service as recently as the early 80's because the was the time most of the sirens in the county went to radio signal control which...
by r4tbolts
Tue Dec 09, 2008 3:23 am
Forum: Main Outdoor Warning Sirens Board
Topic: Muffled by the cows
Replies: 35
Views: 12551

Muffled by the cows

This proud Thunderbolt rotting on the pole in Hanover Township, MI (Jackson Co.) I doubt if few know it is here anymore. The wires were cut and in the summer you wouldn't see it for the vegitation. Last spring I was told by person that lived on the street that the baffle on the poles next to the sir...
by r4tbolts
Sun Dec 07, 2008 4:03 pm
Forum: Main Outdoor Warning Sirens Board
Topic: How many counties still use thunderbolts?
Replies: 115
Views: 51211

Jackson Co MI still has 2. 1 is downtown (seems like it has faced east forever) on the Courthouse it replaced a broken Chrysler in 1982. The second one is on a Round Lake (Skyline Dr.) which I believe has been around since the 60's and had the rotator disabled plus some odd baffle was bulit on poles...

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