Crazy day in Hebden Bridge yesterday. Flood sirens at 2pm. Main road has been closed because of snow at 7am. By 4pm it was closed because of flooding. All safe now. Quite a weekend.





by Kindly-Effort5621

45 comments

  1. That’s a deeply scary noise. Felt like the 4 minute warning.

  2. I’m in a village in Gloucestershire, there are three roads in and out. One road is flooded, the other has a tree down and the third is closed for bridge repairs. I hoping a friendly farmer will be out in the morning to drag the tree out of the way otherwise its going to be hard to get to work.

  3. Great grandad outside, shaking his walking stick at the sky…..”Bloody Jerries”.

  4. I had no idea the UK still had sirens like these in place. Do they have them in all towns/cities?

  5. How would you know the difference between this, and a nuclear strike warning ?

  6. I would shit myself if that appeared out of nowhere. Its 2024, a voice saying Flood Warning, over and over can’t be beyond modern science. That’s a WW2 air raid siren ffs.

  8. Of all the places for the Luftwaffe to target, Hebden Bridge, on a Sunday afternoon. The nerve.

  9. Managed to get down off the hill for a pint at the Gate then the electricity tripped on the whole street so finished the pint by candlelight before they closed up. Proper Hebden weekend lul.

  10. On Portland we have flood sirens for Chiswell, of course the one time it goes off and it’s not a test is when my sister is home alone and doesn’t really know what to do, it’s a ground floor flat but the floor level is about half a meter from pavement level so you’re a bit protected. We do get the main road off the island shut maybe every few years but that’s not always directly related to flooding but because the sea can chuck the pebbles on to the road which naturally is quite dangerous.

    Ended up being on a bus for about an hour last year in Chiswell before getting a lift back home and having to abandon a day of work as the coastguard/EA wouldn’t even let you walk due to the risks. The joys of one road on/off the isle!

  11. Good old Carter Air Raid Siren still in working order. There’s one on the railway viaduct out the front of Waterloo, although I assumed they’d stopped maintaining it.

  12. I live in the UK and never knew there were sirens anywhere, for any reason – Amazing, you learn something new every day.

  13. As a kid we had those at times the quarries were blasting

  14. When I lived in Austria in 2008 (21m) no one warned me that they use these sirens to tell businesses to close on Sunday at midday. I dived into the first hotel I was working with, looking panicked and had to have 5 stiff drinks 🤣 turns out they also sounded them when avalanches where due, I lived and worked in the Ski industry

  17. Does the job that siren.

    They do similar every first Monday in the Netherlands iirc, found that out the hard way whilst wandering round after a visit to a coffeeshop. Just sat ourselves down on a pretty canal and awaited nuclear armageddon.

  20. I would imagine that caused quite a few flashbacks for some of the older residents.

  21. I lived in hebden for a few years in my 20’s and every year it flooded. The town is so poorly designed it’s a miracle it doesn’t flood with every rainfall

  25. Living on the border between Pakistan and India in Kashmir.

    Never been there during Ramadan.

    4:30am every Mosque plays that sound. Nearly had a heart attack. Lol

  26. Where is this?

    We flood all the time, literally every few weeks we get a minor flood and probably once a year we get a moderate one (and in 2014 there was a village wide evacuation, with boats and helicopters and shit) but we don’t get any warning, except wet socks.

    But yeah, we flood so regularly that the businesses don’t even close, I worked in the worst pub for flooding in the town and we remained open and even served food while we were 4-8 inches under water. Tourists thought it was hilarious, especially as we were called The Ship… many jokes about us sinking that totally never got old… 🙄 but there’s a picture somewhere of a dude having a pint in a kayak during one of the worse floods, and more recently my friend had a video of him on a barstool while a shoal of sprats/sandeels/baitfish swam past him.

    If we had this alarm every time we had a flood, no one would ever get any sleep.

  27. ngl if I heard that I’d assume the Russian nukes were on their way.

  28. I would have no clue what I’m supposed to do if I heard this

  30. We have sirens like this at 10am, on the first Wednesday of every month.

    It’s a “major incident” siren.

  31. I love near lots of reservoirs, the above ground level type. They test the flood / burst bank sirens every Tuesday at 11. TBH I don’t really notice it.

  34. These go off semi – regularly to me, as a warning that someone’s escaped the local mental hospital. It’s strange to see them used as another kinda warning

  36. I was born long after the War, but still find that sound bloodcurdling.

  37. There is something just viscerally frightening about that sound. Which I guess is kinda the point.

  38. A quarry near where I live had one of these sirens to warn when they were detonating, not heard it in years though

  42. Not going to lie, if I was there I would be heading to the pub to get sloshed thinking the nukes had been launched.

  43. This is a sound I never, ever want to hear in any kind of real life situation. Utterly terrifying.

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