Tornado - 3 short blasts, break 3 short blasts, get in hallway, go to knees, cover head
Fire drill - 2 short blasts, break, 2 short blasts, break, get in line to go outside.
Thinking back, yeah, it did scare me as we were always afraid it was real. For the tornado, it was real at least 4 times I can remember. We did tornado drills at home with my dad having a whistle.
Wow, that really stuck with you, didn’t it?
We didn’t have the terror of tornadoes, just hurricanes—bad ones were few and far between, and you had some notice of them coming, even back then.
But tornadoes can strike with a short warning time, and that must have been scary.
Thanks for that glimpse into your childhood.