{"id":10240,"date":"2014-04-17T06:30:24","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T10:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=10240"},"modified":"2014-04-17T17:33:26","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T21:33:26","slug":"the-end-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=10240","title":{"rendered":"The end of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

Turn your head sideways<\/a><\/p>\n

The picture is not as important as the audio. The people who have been here for a long time know that I lived In Chicago for about a year and a half in an apartment about a mile off the end of the main E\/W runway at O’Hare. The building has significant sound mitigation efforts to reduce the plane noise. A plane lands about every 54 seconds all day long.<\/p>\n

I had bought the condo in Charlotte and went back in Chicago packing up. I went outside to film a typical plane on final approach when all hell broke loose. O’Hare airport has to be in pretty much any list of critical vulnerable infrastructure.<\/p>\n

The alarming part is the very loud computerized voice. I have no idea where it was coming from. There was no obvious source – it probably was the fire station on Cumberland Avenue about a mile away.<\/p>\n

It became apparent this was the monthly siren test – I only heard it because I was in the parking lot. Which raised the question why you would spend money for a sophisticated warning system, then soundproof buildings so you can’t hear it \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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