From: liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid   
      
   Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:   
      
   [...]   
   >   
   > ISTR that in the Three Mile Island disaster they spent the first fifteen   
   > minutes of the emergency trying to silence all the different damn alarms   
   > that made it impossible to think in the control room. Only once they had   
   > the noise under control could they communicate with each other across   
   > the room.   
      
   I worked in a university where they had just one sounder for each floor,   
   mounted at the end of a each corridor.  They had made it loud enough to   
   be heard in the laboratories with all the doors shut.  It would have   
   been safer to climb out of a window than enter the corridor and try to   
   escape past the sounder.   
      
   When it went off one day, nobody could find out what was happening   
   because communication was impossible.   
      
      
      
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