Huntingburg tornado siren not working
As a result of the testing of the Dubois county sirens March 19, 2019, officials have found that the siren located next to Southridge High School in Huntingburg is currently not in service.
The Dubois County Emergency Management Agency has notified Federal Field Services and they will be inspecting the siren and working to repair it. However, due to being at the front end of our severe weather season; Mayor Denny Spinner, City of Huntingburg; Scott Patberg, Chief of Huntingburg Fire Department; and Tammy Humbert, Director of Dubois County Emergency Management are encouraging all residents of Huntingburg to be aware of the problem and to verify that their SAME weather radios have fresh batteries and are ready to notify you of any severe weather coming to the area.
Please note that all Schools in the Southwest School Corporation have NOAA weather radios in each of their buildings and they are also directly notified of any warning via the Dubois County Emergency Management Agency.
The agency also stated that all citizens of Dubois County should do the same as the sirens in the county are put in place as a back up to notify residents of threatening weather that is approaching. Sirens are not to replace your own notification process such as a NOAA weather radios.
I hear them cycling up when they first start and again cycling down at the end – but I don’t (can’t) hear them near as much or easily, if at all sometimes, during the few minutes in between when they stay up at that constant high pitch. But my dogs do – easier for them at their dog-whistle hearing range. But as the sirens are for people more than dogs, maybe they ought to set them sirens to cycle or oscillate the sound up and down more, through the various human hearing-range spectrums, so folks can detect the sound better if they miss the wind-up start or wind-down at the end. That continuous high-pitch seems to get lost or blend in with all the various other sounds, at least during the busy daytime activities. Higher (pitch) isn’t necessarily louder or better.