You have Watts Bar, I have the Sequoyah plant nearby. We get to hear the test sirens at noon on the first Wednesday of every month. Haven’t seen any congregation of middle-easterners around here, but I don’t get out on horseback either.
That would have made me a bit nervous, even though I know that the security force at a nuke plant is armed to the teeth (and rumor has it that the ones at Watts Bar have been known to accidentally shoot their own patrol car). Things that don’t fit in, a group of middle eastern guys in the woods near a nuclear plant in eastern TN would be pretty odd.
I could see a rowdy group of good ol’ boys with a campfire or something, but not that.
Now that you mention it, the sirens do only test once a month. It’s the weather radio that tests every Wednesday.
Middle Eastern men in the backwoods of the TN mountains was very odd and out of place. They knew they didn’t belong because they didn’t throw up their hands and wave. Good ol’ boys would have yelled “how you all doin’ and do you want a beer”. LOL That would have been bad because my horse was a drunk. He loved beer! It was common back then to run up on good ol’ boys and even moonshiners, but not Muslim type men. My red flag radar was up all over the place. I figure they moved on after being seen but I don’t know to where.
I guess that we made them nervous too because we all had handguns strapped to our saddles.