Robert Gift wrote:No new sirens.
Keep old sirens in use.
Murfresburo HAS no sirens, neither does most counties in TN. We only have three county wide, and we need many more.
My thought on this:
Sirens are a great thing to have, for example: People here in TN (well, most of us) love the outdoors and we swim, golf, camp out, etc. If you're away from home and have no clue that the weather has turned bad, wouldn't you want to know that immediately? I know they encourage you to get a weather radio, I own one, but what about the people that cannot afford one? What, do you just say "piss on them"?
I know that so many officials in TN have their heads in their @$$es and when the siren topic is brought up, they instantly make up a lousy excuse such as "they cost too much" or "their unreliable and a waste of tax dollars". See, that goes to show SO MUCH about how much your city/county gives a rats @$$ about their citizen's safety. If these people cared as much for their citizens as they SAY they do, don't you think they would be using
OUR tax dollars on stuff like this and not for "that new rose garden beside the interstate"?
However there are some officials that support the idea, and I want to thank them right now. Good thinking
..and to those officials that don't give a rats @$$ about us, then you should be
fired because you don't know what the he11 you're talking about.
Like as of now, it took two fatalities here in TN to make the state EMA pull their heads out of their butt and make sirens a requirement. Too bad we will all be issued those POS ATI sirens; those things are just cheap unreliable bullhorns. I even had a buddy from an EMA agree with me on that one! Get a real warning system, like a system of Sentrys, Whelens, ASC T-128/T-135's or 2001's. Then, the other thing, we won't have this all in until 2012.
FOUR YEARS. Who else could lose their life within this time frame? They need to put that into perspective. Instead of using our tax money, I hope they know there is such thing called a GRANT.
Also, I'd like to state my opinion on reverse-911: it's useless. If you're outside, then what good is it going to do? Don't listen to those Code Red people; their just filling your head with crap that are lies.
Hopefully we won't all be screwed.