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Every Little Thing

Gimlet

Comedy, Education, Science

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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0:25.0	Last month in Dallas, this weird thing happened.
0:31.0	It was Friday night, April 7th.
0:33.7	It was a clear spring evening, not many clouds.
0:36.7	You could see the moon.
0:38.2	And at about 1130 p.m.
0:40.6	This started happening all over the city.
0:49.0	There are 156 warning sirens in Dallas and every single one of them went off, which, you know, during
0:57.0	tornado season isn't unusual, except that it was totally clear that night.
1:02.0	So people were confused and actually took to
1:04.1	YouTube to document it. Stupid things going off again. Third time now. This is
1:10.2	terribly freaky. No it like, is this the tornado sign, but there's nothing, there's no sugar rather whatsoever?
1:17.0	Nothing around.
1:19.0	Do you use them?
1:22.0	Like, I'm legit right now.
1:25.0	What I'm hearing, it could be some kind of civil defense test, right?
1:29.0	People started calling 911 to try to figure out what was going on.
1:33.6	We had around 4,400 calls coming to the 911 call center.
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