Once a month a KC-46 (enormous plane) does low altitude laps over my house, he's annoying a fellow pilot in the neighborhood on his Nat Guard duty.
Much quieter than his old KC-135, that was like bombing runs. Scared the crap outta foreigners with the WWII Air Raid/town fire siren going at the same time.
Absolute panic bug eyes, white knuckles. Never lived in the Cold War was my first thought.
"Why are you just STANDING there! Where do we go? Is it the Russians?"
"That's just a air force tanker, not a Russian bomber. Were not being bombed, happens all the time. It's sort of a joke. The air raid siren belongs to the Fire Dept."
"What kind of joke is that? Do they blow it when the town gets unidentified planes overhead?"
"Huh? No...for fires! The low flying plane is the joke. It's just a coincidence."
"OMG!..We though we were going to die, why are you using an AIR RAID SIREN!! "
" It's just been there since , so now its for fires. Wait 'till the steamship horn at noon time, that shakes a square mile or two!"
"Why does your town have a steamship horn AND a air raid siren? "
"Huh? For lunch and fires of course."
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