for those of you who live and work in san francisco, you are familiar with loud, LOUD noise of the disaster alarm that sounds every tuesday at noon.this annoying alarm system (see the 4 big speakers stacked on top of each other in the center of the columns) can be heard anywhere in the 7x7 miles that san francisco covers...and quite frankly i'm sure you can hear it from even further away. the alarm sounds at noon each tuesday and is supposed to be a testing of the system in case of an emergency.
...the thing is, what's the point? if there is a disastrous occurrence in the city won't we all know about it anyways? is the signaling of the alarm supposed to put us all at ease by confirming that whatever the heck just happened was indeed catastrophic? just weird.
but for now it will continue to serve its purpose as my cue that it's noon and that i should get out of the office and get some lunch.
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