Originally Posted by
EastsideAl
It's true. I don't remember hearing them for many many years here on the east side. Sure do remember those Saturday @ 1 PM tests from when I was a kid though. It was so loud we had to stop whatever we were doing and wait until it was over [[and listen to our dog howl out in the yard, along with every other dog on the block).
Of course, I'm old enough to remember doing the "duck and cover" drills in the Detroit Public Schools too. As well as Fallout Shelter signs, a big room full of Civil Defense provisions in green barrels in the school basement, and the Nike missiles coming out of their bunkers on Belle Isle.