The (loud!) Siren Heard All Over the Netherlands
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- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2022
- The Netherlands has a (very loud) public warning siren system that is tested on the first Monday of every month.
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In elementary school when these things went off, there would always be at least one kid proclaiming “the Germans are attacking again!”
That sort of still happens, but now its Russians also because of the bomber air-planes.
They test the phone warnings a lot less often.
But quite hilarious to hear like 20 of them screaming in a single room at the office.
"Time for lunch"
Or when you're om the bus/train. I always make sure to look up and see people get scared to death by the alarm
Or
"de Russen komen! Aaahhh" 😂
I have a friend who works at a company where they have 80 phones used for work in a cabinet. Imagine the laughs and annoyance.
@@DiamontSeven but, you have to enable the alert on the phone…
School is great too, teachers have to wait for it
The most effective time to do an airstrike or somethinv on the Netherlands is at noon (local time) on the first monday of the month because then everyone will just assume it's a test like usual
I don't think terrorist will announce that they will attack, so how would you know when or where to start the alarms????
@@Brozius2512 I was thinking more along the lines of foreign powers sending in their bomber planes, and you sound the alarm when foreign bomber planes enter your airspace without permission
@@nienke7713 The test sirens go for 1 minute 26 seconds, so if it was a real emergency they would just keep repeating
@@Leyfindrake why does it always seem longer. Like sometimes it feels like 5 minutes
@@RedRingOfDead It feels way too long everytime, a very annoying surprise every month
My husband did a 3 month research stint in the Netherlands. No one told him about the siren and he legit thought there were incoming missiles. But everyone on the street was ignoring it. Eventually he climbed out of the bushes and asked someone walking by. 😆
Lol did he think there was a cold war going on ir something?
Flexing on us with the infinite loop shorts.
Really smooth once again
@Barry Slurpentine why?
@Barry Slurpentine just loop the video
It's pretty easy to do, so I will almost always do it this way. It's just so satisfying. :)
@Barry Slurpentine Works for me on desktop
@@NotJustBikes I had that reaction of 'no way did you just do that'
We were sitting at Markthal in Rotterdam today and wondered what that sound was but nobody seemed worried so we just carried on. Amazing to get an answer to our question on the same day!
I always wondered how many tourists or foreigners get scared shitless because of these tests. 😅
@@daanxbox360 can confirm i was a tourist scared shitless of this in den haag yesterday
@@elerikent5981 it’s quite an eerie one, depending on the situation. You can pretty much always hear them, even in most buildings, but they hit different if you’re outside; maybe because you can clearly hear the more distant ones too.
I always ask myself what if someone plans a terrorist attack right on the first Monday of the month at 12.00? Then people will just think is normal
We have these as well. Only difference is that they're not tested monthly, but annually. You completely forget that they exist, and if you don't hear about the test date, you always wonder what the hell is going on. It's insane how loud these things are.
I think monthly would be better actually, just to make people desensitized to the noise
every 12 hours TBH imo
Same in NL. Technically they only need to test them once every year, but they do it more often to make people familiar with it
@@JessevanBekkum correct, about 20 years ago they decided to test without sounding, and one time anually, but soon they discovered that the testing of the sound was really necessary.
In sweden they’re treated every ~other~ third month instead, ~but the same time as in nl~ at 15:00 instead of noon.
Edit: I apparently completely misremembered.
I can definitely believe there are over 4000 of them. I can hear them from my grandparent's cottage in the middle of nowhere in Friesland. Always creeps me out.
well everyone has to hear them
@@brampuschel5630 Not a principle every country follows unfortunately.
THAT LOOP THOUGH!!!!!! Nice.
It actually hurt my head a little how well it worked
I can only assume these will sound when the Netherlands finally issued a formal declaration of war on the Atlantic Ocean.
This could get sampled into a fire techno track.
Here in Cologne we still have old sirens because they were never removed, and in Germany there is another sound for tests so you know when it is a real alarm and can also easily tell people if it was a false alarm
There are also different sounds for different dangers. We have: air raid/gas attack, evacuation and mobilisation of all availible firedepartment personell
Generally he faster the frequency the more screwed you are.
Huh, that's interesting! Considering these frequencies are (presumably) meant to be understood by the general public, I wonder why there's no public info about them. Or yanno, not unless you actively search for it. That seems like the kinda thing to teach during that event week in school where they also do first aid courses and such.
but they are removed in many many parts of germany sadly. glad too see cologne is having the sirene
@@stixinst5791 Classic Germans. Over-engineering everything.
@@KarolaTea we aren’t really taught them 😂 if you live in the countryside you probably quite often here the one for the firefighters. In the countryside not many firefighters work full time, most are volunteers. So when there is a big fire where more help is needed, this siren goes off. The volunteer firefighters then come from their regular job or from home. These sirens are tested every first Sunday at noon. Here in the city I have never heard them because they have more full time firefighters. In my area there is a lot of construction so they often find old WW2 bombs so usually once a year I have to be evacuated when they defuse and remove it. This information then is posted on the Cities/firefighters/police/public transport social media, on local TV and radio, newspaper, letters on front doors and they always drive through the streets with a loudspeaker telling you about it. Then at the time of the evacuation often police helicopters check the evacuated area with thermal imaging cameras to see if someone is not leaving.
Here in Germany we also have the Nina app. It also informs you of dangers, such as bad weather, accidents at nearby factories for example when there is a leak of chemicals, and these evacuations.
First Wednesday of the month at noon in France. The sound is way more "old school". Glad to see we're not the only ones doing this !
heaven forbid that there's an emergency at noon on the 1st monday of the month
These also exist in sweden, and once it malfunctioned and caused a false alarm. And this was not just the emergency alarm that maltunctioned, it was the LITERAL AIR RAID ALARM. I was so scared as although they often test the main system, they have not sounded, or even tested, the air raid alarm since 1970. I turned on the TV and it continued as usual for a few mins, till they announced it was a false alarm
I always joke to my co-workers "LUNCH!!!" when the siren is tested at noon. 😄
I really, really, really, appreciate the looping narration, amazing, a work of art. Bravo!
Day 155. I'm still watching the video without an end in sight. My beard has reached my knees and my family has left me. I'll be damned before I'm beaten by a video. I will stay here until the end. It will come.
The U.S. (or at least Indiana) has them as well. It's an alternating high-low-high-low sound, instead of one that gets higher in pitch then goes back to low. There are also EAS and phone alerts. I remember when there was an abduction and everyone's phone started playing the EAS tone in math class.
Or where I grew up, for severe storms!
The difference is I've never heard it tested. And I can't recall ever noticing them visually. Probably depends on the state.
Hawai’i has them for tsunamis, and funny enough we test them on the first Monday of every month as well
I would venture to guess most places in the US don't have any sort of public sirens. Only places that are prone to certain kinds of natural disaster, such as tsunamis or tornadoes. I know my city would never spend money on an emergency siren, and in decades I don't know what they would have used one for.
I live in Wisconsin, US and we have plenty of them. They also get tested on a regular schedule and are used to warn of Tornadoes, usually
Same thing in OK, USA. Mostly used for tornado warnings, but still tested once a month.
There’s a warning siren near my parents house. It was tested weekly. It was so loud and annoying and was tested about every week.
Dude that loop was smooth.
everx month?
here in Germany we tested out shit again after not doings so for ages
and it turns out
its all broken
lol
That LOOP was genius
We have those where I live. Used as tornado warning or warning of emergency at the oil refineries.
We had one of those about a quarter mile from my house. It was tested at noon. Every. Single. Noon. My blood pressure hasn't been the same since.
The most common use for this alarm are big fires, floods, chemical spills etc... It is not really for terrorist or military attacks in peace time.
That loop though
omg, the loop! Top level.
Same here in Sweden, tested at 15:00 first Monday every three months. Great stuff
Can you believe I studied in the Netherlands for one semester and only ONCE heard them? Scared one year of my life right out of me xD and im still not sure what the heck I have been doing every first monday of the month since I really really really didn't realize they existed before the last month of my stay
Heard them this morning and still freaked out🤣
If you hear it in the morning it might be serious. Only the 12:00 test you can ignore.
We have this in Louisville, Colorado USA. Last December we had the worst fire disaster in state history burn about 1000 homes in Louisville and neighboring Superior, but the sirens did not sound. Despite 50,000 people being ordered to evacuate, city officials did not know if they had the authority to activate them!
Where I live there's also warning sirens, they are tested on the first Wednesday of the month at noon, and if they're not tested on that day it means there's an emergency
What if there is an actual emergency at noon on the first Monday of a month?
one imagines that the test cycle only goes a certain number of times, while in an actual emergency it would keep going and/or repeat.
The phone alert will kick in too then, while the sirens will continue to sound the alert.
Imagine an actual emergency will happen on the first monday of some month lol
That loop really confused me for a second.... very clever
I had completely forgotten about this part of my childhood but the second I heard that sound I FELT it
There are really old ones (most dating back to WW2) that are no longer used in the UK, you can still find them if you know where to look
Here in Prague it's on every first Wednesday of the month. I'd say this is quite common at least across Europe.
Yes, we have the same in France at the same time
I'd just like to recognize the flawless loop action on display here. Thnx dude, great videos!
I heard these today! Great timing with the videos!
Have the same thing here in Austria. Although they sound a lot more like the "usual" air raid siren. And they test it every week. And they are also used pretty commonly for alerting volunteer fire fighters at home. Fun times waking up at three in the morning to sirens blaring and not knowing at first if the granny next door has fallen and can't get up, or if nuclear armageddon has begun.
In Dresden there are also warning sirens from the local airport. They always get tested on the second wednesday in a quarter
In Czech rep. and Slovakia they're in many many cities, villages and towns. The only time you should be worried is when the siren's loudness goes up and down instead of one continuous tone
Nice how your message loops seamlessly from the end to the beginning. Like a Pink Floyd album... but different. Nice!
I was terrified the first time I heard this!
Reminds me of how in Illinois the tornado sirens are tested on the first Tuesday of every month.
Being from tornado alley in the US I would've thought it was a tornado siren/tornado siren test.
One time at college in Texas, a kid from the Neatherlands was doing an exchange program. We too have sirens, mainly for tornadoes warnings, but we test them mainly on the first Wednesday of every month. So when that first happen during his stay, he ask what was going on and we explain it to him, he wanted to make sure because hearing a siren for him on any day other than a Monday meant something a whole lot worse.
You'll definitely hear something familiar when you're traveling in Ukraine now. And very often.
Что-то произошло?
@@maxymvasin7695 a full-scale russian army invasion with air raids, artillery shellings and missile attacks killing a lot of people and destroying the critical infrastructure. We are already addressing the issue, but it would take some time. Why do you ask though?
@@kagenekoUA not our problem
US Midwest has the same thing. Tornado/severe weather siren. Tested first Tuesday of the month.
Now you’ ll know that.. what? Don’t leave us hanging!
listen to it on loop and you''ll know :)
@@jonsiarnar Omg thank you! I've got an extension that automatically opens shorts in the normal player so I was just super confused
I live in Germany and we have similar ones. The maintenance and testing is done by the local authorities so it differs widely when and how often these are tested. Where I live they test them every WEEK on Saturday noon but there are also places where they only do it annually or even less frequent
We also have the monthly test but of the old air raid sirens here in Finland. Unfortunately can't be heard where I live which is always comforting when you live close to the Russian border.
We have these in Hawaii, and they are tested monthly as well. They are mostly used for tsunamis, but they can also warn about other disasters.
The netherland: the only country where you can pick a random place and found two bike lanes near the street
Or more there might be a car lane somewhere close to a bike path. We have more bike lanes then roads
In Austria pretty much every village got a sirene and they are "tested" every saturday midday, and then they have a big test once a year (it s in use for warning for danger, firefighters and more)
Ah cool, we have those in Ukraine too
Heard my first one today.
I remember when the new digital versions were installed. They claimed they wouldn't have to test them every month anymore. I guess there was an issue and pretty quickly they went back to testing every month again.
I just looked it up and these modern ones were installed in 1998, from 1998 to 2003 they were only tested once a year on the first wednesday of June. From september 2003 onwards they went back to testing on the first monday of every month.
I think an additional benefit to testing is that people don't freak out the moment they hear it. I just wonder if it outweighs people thinking it's just another test and delaying them from taking shelter.
Ah yes we have these too in Austria, and they’re tested weekly, every Saturday at noon.
Sweden have those too, and we also tested them today (Monday)... The main difference is probably that we only test once per quarter, and that they often speak before starting the siren
When I lived in Maryland, USA, many years ago.....we had those sirens going off too. I live in California now, and the only warning sirens are in Apartment Complexes ( rather the one I lived in)
When my family moved to the netherlands there once was the higest possible alert because of like 3cm of snow. As a finn I was quite confused 😂
What if a major emergency happens at noon on the first Monday of a month?
Ah yes, the radio or TV. Which I totally have. Because it's 1999.
Tv 1,2 and 3 always work. Eith our without tv connection. Also every well prepped dutchie has a batery powerd radio and flashlight in the meterkast.
We used to have a proper air raid siren, but then they decided to change it into a alien invasion siren around the year 2000.
I heard this at my hotel yesterday in Amsterdam - wondered what it was!
“Its just a dinner alarm”
This was not the sound when I was still living there. Wonder why they changed it. The text message is a good addition considering more and more buildings have good and strong isolation to lower outside noise. Also for the hearing impaired it is nice to know there is an emergency...
same in switzerland. used to creep me out.
This reminds me of the severe weather sirens around where I've lived. They test them generally monthly, at a specific time.
So, let's hope nothing bad happens on 1st Monday at noon or they have a different sound for the real deal.
where I grew up, the fire siren was a repurposed WW2 RAAF air raid siren, they would test it once a week on Sunday. Watch old war films, you could never tell at first if it was on TV or outside. I assume it os no longer used now that mobile technology is reliable.
That is a federal signal modulator thank you for making this beautiful video
I was in Woerden, Utrecht province on the first Monday of the month but I don't recall hearing that. Maybe I forget.
POV: there’s an emergency on the first Monday of the month:
We've got them in Missouri too, but for tornadoes, also had them back in Alaska for tunami
At home we have neither radio nor have we setup the tv air broadcast, nor have we bothered with cable TV. I guess we’d live and die by our phones… On a similar note, in Bulgaria many of these sirens also have speakers where a stern Soviet-era female voice tells you exactly what the emergency is and gives instructions. The game Half-Life 2 captures the atmosphere perfectly in the opening act.
The tests must really freak out tourists lol
It's like the severe weather sirens we have in thr US midwest. Ours are also tested on the 1st Saturday of each month. The Dutch siren sounds cooler, though.
Until the flood in NRW in Germany do they start to think the importance of the emergency alert, especially cell broadcast like NL-Alert here. Many people died from there due to lack of proper alert system.
I feel like I am on Practical Engineering’s channel watching a “What’s that infrastructure” video 😁
Ah yes, the monthly mini heart attack generators.
Were I live if a public siren is going off it means TORNADO WARNING or Testing at Noon on Wednesday.
I live in Tornado Alley in the United States so I am very familiar with that kind of sound. It's not something you want to hear in the middle of the night
Flashbacks to that one time i was in the netherlands omg
those used to go off at noon every first saturday of the month in croatia
What happens if there is an actual emergency at the testing time?
Ah yes, the infamous rice paddy field of the Netherlands
We have those in Germany as well but most of them are broken and not working properly…
Imagine you go to Netherlands as a tourist and hear the sirens. You think you know it, except, this time, it's not noon nor Monday.
If the 1964 World's Fair Men-In-Black flying saucers and Sirenhead had a baby.
My Albertan town has one, though it was decommissioned when phone warnings were introduced, they set it off every day at 11:52 for whatever reason for a while, but they've stopped that now
(doesn't sound the same as the Netherlands one)
Every single damn time for all my life whenever I hear it.. "oh yeah that's a thing"
Any invader thinking of invading Netherland right now:
Lets invade on the first monday of the month.