Tornadoes in Virginia: No Sirens???

[Franz?]

Wait a minute, just one damn minute here, how come I'm in charge of locating and confining Mr Gift to a mental health facility? I damn well didn't volunteer, I never volunteer.

Is it because of that little issue a couple years back when the membership of an unnamed board sent me off to Sensitivity Camp and I managed to get a couple people to rescue me? Hey, I woulda broke out on my own, but it was a lot of fun hangin with the guy who could drive golfballs like rifle shots, and doing other nonaproved things to the camp staff. I'm an old fart in my third childhood, and I'm allowed transgressions.

BTW, what's wrong with the way he's carrying the siren part?

Hell, many years ago I did a similar thing with a traffic cone and followed a goof who had a faggy umbrella strapped to his head. That guy never looked back but a hell of a lot of people were laughing themselves silly. Statute of limitations has to have expired on that one.

Besides, in case it escaped you, this is a siren board, where people freely admit enjoying and collecting sirens. You got any idea how the board population will drop if all the members get adjudged on their sanity and the less than normal members get confined to a locked facility.

AND, for the record, I did attend the auction of the NY State Mental Hospital in Rochester about 10 years back, and needed to rent a UHaul truck to haul my goodies home. My wife, the health care professional did make certain assertions about me belonging at that facility, but she backed off quick when I pointed out she'd have to pay the bills if I was locked up. Besides, all those IV pumps had very nice 6 foot cords and gelcell batterys in them. Anybody need a hospital size Rubbermade laundry wagon on wheels?

AND, I can tell anyone interested what happens to sirens that are connected to improper voltages. You have no idea how many I've seen that suffered that fate.

[JasonC]

Oh man I don't think I've ever laughed so hard in my life Dave!! I think your idea is excellent though for the world's most unluckiest 2T22.

Anywho, I never knew about all the siren in the Tidewater area of Virginia. I knew about the old 5's on the VA Beach fire stations. I believe this was the old post WWII air raid system. I do rememebr something long ago about the Alertor, but as many times as I've been through Norfolk in my life, I've never seen any Thunderbolts. I guess I'll look harder next time I go up there (which won't be for years probably).

[hobbeekid]

On a seperate note.. after reading Mr. Gift's post about him being in China and his wife admonishing him to be careful if he is going to photograph the siren.... I would like to place Franz in charge of the research (and possibly the steering) committee in charge of getting Robert Gift some help. We will of course need to evaluate all of the centers available, the type of help they can provide, the type of help Mr. Gift needs, whether or not we can get away with putting Robert in a place that serves dog food and deciding how much internet time he should be alloted. While Franz is meeting with his group, we will need another group of people, lead by either myself, Jason C or Daniel (whom I have taken a real liking to) to come up with a plan to hook up his 2T22 at the facilty.... be it with a light switch activation point, an AR Controller or a combination blender/toaster activation system.... of course we will also need to find a way to run 3 phase from his sewage plant to whatever facility we put him in or convert the 2T22 to run on dual single phase motors or use a rotary phase convertor or all three... so we need a committee for this as well. The final committee will need to be chaired by Eric Green and have no less than 2 members but have no more than 3 members.. this is the Goofy s*** committee... thier sole function is to put into motion all of the fun (ie: goofy) things Mr. Gift wants to do with his siren.. be it putting a smoke bomb under the intakes to check for a vortex (we better not do this in VA), blocking off the lower intake and measuring motor rpm/heat, using it as a vegetable slicer, lowering it into the sewage pond and flinging poo and most importantly running it on 110v thru 440v to compare the sound output/resultant pitch that is produced as it tries to spin at 110 and flies away at 440. I guess we should also have a committee to retrieve the siren after it has flown away on 440.... either way.. we need to have meetings and delegations and sub-committees and power trips and pissing matches.... there is so little to do and so much time!!!!!!! I am sure that he will argue that he doesn't need help... but:



Does this look like a man who is capable of knowing what is best for himself?? J/K

All out of love Robert... all out of love

All the cans have been opened,I can see worms everywhere!!! can this mess be cleaned up?!!! LOL!