| Date: | 29/10/2009 |
| Message: | From Tohora Crescent the warning siren was in my opinion ineffective. If you had not been listening for it you would not have been aware of it. |
| Contributor: | cvg |
| OBC Reply: | This was the general experience at the southern end. We hope that the installation of an additional siren south of the Surf Club - and an increase in volume generally - will mean you can't avoid hearing it next time! |
| OBC Responder: | joc |
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| Date: | 29/10/2009 |
| Message: | We were located at 255 Omaha Drive at the time. 4 adults and 4 children were inside the house - no music or tv and doors slightly open. We could hardly hear it! Had to go outside to make sure it was the sirens. If it had been a rainy and windy day and all doors closed with tv or music on, I guarantee we would not have heard it. |
| Contributor: | ns |
| OBC Reply: | We would have expected the Boat Ramp siren to be really 'loud and clear' at your location. Your feedback has been passed on, including to the siren suppliers. We hope that you can report a 'loud blast' next time! |
| OBC Responder: | joc |
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| Date: | 29/10/2009 |
| Message: | We were at the Southern End of the beach walking on the sand when the warning siren went. We could only hear the siren faintly and felt most people would not have heard it adequately. However, as we got along near the surf club we heard the siren and would have known what was happening. |
| Contributor: | etp |
| OBC Reply: | Your comments reinforce the general experience of volume not being loud enough anywhere and the need for another siren toward the southern end, as planned. |
| OBC Responder: | joc |
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| Date: | 27/10/2009 |
| Message: | Hey, we didn't hear the siren....We are down the south end at Tohora Cres...did it happen? |
| Contributor: | gb |
| OBC Reply: | Yes, it did happen - but audibility in many places was an issue, and especially at the southern end. Hopefully this won't be a problem when the two remaining sirens are installed and next tested. |
| OBC Responder: | joc |
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| Date: | 27/10/2009 |
| Message: | We live in Pipi Lane & heard no sirens on Sunday. |
| Contributor: | mc |
| OBC Reply: | We hope that when a siren is installed south of the Surf Club you will hear it 'loud and clear'. (Two more sirens are to be installed: one between Boat Ramp and Surf Club and one well south of the Surf Club, as we understand it.) |
| OBC Responder: | joc |
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| Date: | 27/10/2009 |
| Message: | We could barely hear the sirens inside our house at Taumata Rd, southern end. We very much doubt we would hear them if we were asleep. Outside we could hear them but they weren't obvious and weren't urgent. Our neighbours were of the same opinion.
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| Contributor: | ln |
| OBC Reply: | We hope that the sirens will be louder everywhere in future - and that audibility at the southern end will not be a problem after a siren is installed south of the Surf Club. |
| OBC Responder: | joc |
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| Date: | 26/10/2009 |
| Message: | We were at the water's edge between Community Centre and tennis courts and very faintly heard what I thought was the Whangateau siren (audibility interrupted by helicopter). Sirens from Pt Wells were louder and I could just discern the different signals. Weather very calm; no jet skis or other noise on estuary. The Boat Ramp tests were loud and clear at the Community Centre, including in the Golf Club Starter's office at southern end of the building with radio on, people talking etc. Different signals very clear. People I spoke to in Caroline Heights hadn’t heard anything.
The surf club siren was heard clearly by our neighbours in Kitty Fraser Lane – both inside and outside – but they ‘were expecting a louder blast’.
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| Contributor: | jo |
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| Date: | 25/10/2009 |
| Message: | We are in Rita Way and did not hear any sirens at all. |
| Contributor: | gc |
| OBC Reply: | We would have hoped the Boat Ramp siren would have been 'loud and clear' at your location, especially on a calm day. |
| OBC Responder: | joc |
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| Date: | 25/10/2009 |
| Message: | We were at Southern Isle Road in a house on the beachfront and we were all expecting to hear a Tsunami warning. We heard nothing at all. Did it happen?? We were sitting inside having a conversation - no music, no television, no appliances, no lawnmower, no dog barking ....no Tsunami warning. Hopefully this is because you decided to trial it at some other time. A very worthwhile exercise but if it was done today it needs to be much louder. |
| Contributor: | mb |
| OBC Reply: | We agree. We would definitely expect you to have heard the siren from your location. |
| OBC Responder: | joc |
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| Date: | 25/10/2009 |
| Message: | We listened with great interest to the tsunami sirens from Tuna Place and feel that if one is inside watching TV or with the radio at a medium level the siren is very difficult to pick up… When we went outdoors the signals were satisfactory as long as you're not mowing the lawns with ear muffs. |
| Contributor: | rd |
| OBC Reply: | Audibility appears to have been either a problem or a disappointment in most locations. (The sirens might have to wake us all up!) We hope the siren suppliers will be working on this. |
| OBC Responder: | joc |
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| Date: | 25/10/2009 |
| Message: | I was at home (southern end Mangatawhiri Road) in kitchen with extractor fan going; didn’t hear it until someone else outside called out. |
| Contributor: | gm |
| OBC Reply: | Hopefully audibility at the southern end will not be a problem when the siren south of the Surf Club is installed. |
| OBC Responder: | joc |
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