Carolyn, The towns have sirens. I guess ours went off Wednesday morning but it must have blended with the storm noise that woke me up around 5 am. I heard there was no warning or just a few minutes in Harrisburg, as the tornado must have started near the town. At 5 am not many people are watching tv. A lot of people have weather radios but again there didn't seem to be much of a warning. Many people don't leave their radios turned on as they used to get warnings for too large an area and go off for hours. There had been rain Tuesday evening but no severe weather. Cindy On 3/1/2012 9:02 AM, . . wrote: > Thank you Cindy for your report. Does the area have a good warning system? > > Carolyn > > -

Most weather radios can be set for just a couple of counties. You just need to know how to program it. Sometimes they have programming days at Kroger. I have mine set to only go off for Franklin and Williamson Counties. I live close to the county line in Franklin County, but I'm figuring the tornado doesn't know to stop at the county line. :) Connie > Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 14:19:54 -0600 > From: cbconly@midwest.net > To: ilwhite@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ILWHITE] Storms in SE Illinois > > Carolyn, > > The towns have sirens. I guess ours went off Wednesday morning but it > must have blended with the storm noise that woke me up around 5 am. > > I heard there was no warning or just a few minutes in Harrisburg, as the > tornado must have started near the town. At 5 am not many people are > watching tv. A lot of people have weather radios but again there didn't > seem to be much of a warning. Many people don't leave their radios > turned on as they used to get warnings for too large an area and go off > for hours. There had been rain Tuesday evening but no severe weather. > > Cindy > > On 3/1/2012 9:02 AM, . . wrote: > > Thank you Cindy for your report. Does the area have a good warning system? > > > > Carolyn > > > > - > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ILWHITE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Connie, Hopefully these storms will not be severe this spring. I live in about 40 miles from Newburgh, IN (which is just east of Evansville) and the tornado had weakened when it hit Newburgh to an EF1 or 2. But the damage there is terrible, not like Harrisburg or Ridgeway though. I noticed your surname is Sieveking--- I have a Nicholas Sieveking (Jan 29, 1885-Mar 26, 1969 Mt. Carmel) who married Stella Mae Eakins (May 21, 1893 Henderson KY-Aug 7, 1973, Evansville). Stella is part of my mother's Eakins line. Stella first married Luther Dixon SR Hanley (also spelled Handley) in 1908-divorced; then married Elmo Freeman Miller abt 1922, divorced; married Nicholas Sieveking about 1936, divorced; then married her first husband, Luther about 1952. Is this part of your line? My personal email is gkeusch@psci.net Thanks. Helen Zuber Keusch family lines of Zuber, Land, Crabtree, Goodart (Gutekunst), Anthis, Bangert, Edwards, Bennett, Eakins, Handley, Ezell, Sandefur, Ford, Melton--my lines; Keusch, Zimmerman, Burger, Hurst, Hopf, Ackerman, Schitter/Schuetter, Mehringer, Becher, Baumert, Schmitt, Hochgesang--hubby's lines