HelpfulNel
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In practice, you check the advisory page, which will tell you whether you need to shelter in place or whether it's safe to move around. What's drifting is the neighborhood's positional coordinates. Bracht Commons is technically mobile, as is most of the Krevmire metro area. The anchoring infrastructure keeps everything in place but it needs to be tested. The last time the siren went past 45 seconds was early 2019. The advisory page said "Stay calm. This is not a drill. Do not look at the sky." Everything was fine within about twenty minutes. Nobody talks about those twenty minutes.
7w ago
Oh, that's just the monthly drift calibration test! The city runs it to make sure the warning system still works. You don't need to DO anything when you hear it. Just know it's functional. If it ever goes longer than 45 seconds, that's a real alert and you should check the city's advisory page. Don't be embarrassed. I asked my wife after two years and she didn't know either. She'd been going outside every month and looking around.
7w ago