Unit of Civil Defense wrote:While cruizing thru my fav. live severe weather video sights "I" noticed this story at a few of them....here is the link to the story.
http://www.fox2now.com/news/ktvi-stloui ... 6829.story
I noticed in the comments section that someone stated that "it's a Whelen... the wrong buttons where pushed" Anyone care to elaborate more on this
Yeah, it sounds like there was massive operator error, that the City of St. Louis doesn't know how to work their siren system/know how it works, and the newsmedia is getting its panties in a bunch before they researched the facts.
I found this YouTube video of the city's sirens sounding for the tornado warning yesterday:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MOvW1MpbTs
Someone hit the wrong button and activated the air horn tone instead of the alert tone. That's what that "honking" was.
It was not a malfunction. It was someone being clueless.