for ignoring the nuclear attack siren which is currently going off?

[Kladdkaka]

I'm not entirely sure what I'm supposed to do but I know which I'd choose given the choice of death by radiation fallout and entering the spider infested, unlit bunker at the end of the garden.

we could have done with an air raid sirren. we are still suffering from the ww2 bombing.... bloody hitler and all that. nearly had to evacuate when very pregnant and small toddler. someone dug up and uxb on the building site down the road. we were just outside the evacuation zone.

Rowena
Yes, CH houses had to, by law, have a nuclear bunker. Or you had to purchase a place in a communal bunker. The laws have changed now but they still come around once a year to check the bunker is still working.

Actually, that is a scary thought - that the Swiss would repopulate the earth. At least all the trains would run on time and we would know how to make chocolate.

The phones thing is to stop people from jamming up the lines (like they get jammed on New Years Eve) and thus preventing Important People like the emergency services and Boris Johnson from using them.

Moobee was the science facility Harwell by any chance? I used to work near there 10 years ago.

I live near octel and we have sirens.

Yes reallytired it's Harwell. :)

Broadmoor siren still goes off every Monday - I work at a school about 50 yards from one of the sirens and it is very loud. It's even louder in the key worker housing which was considerately built right between the two - one of our teachers lives there, and he never gets a lie-in on a Bank Holiday Monday...

Oh my god the sound horrible! And the Broadmoor ones!

Surely each city in the UK must have a nuclear warning siren?

They have sirens in Austria. Last year we were in the mountains and there was a MASSIVE thunderstorm and torrential biblical rain and then the sirens went off.
Very sureal! We were in the hotel, but no-one told us where to go.