Скачать или смотреть ACA Banshee 115 | Alert | Eldorado, IL (Illinois Statewide Tornado Drill 2018)

Originally Recorded 3/6/2018
© 2022 Brandon Mendel (Reuse allowed with permission)

Here’s another overdue video. This time from the 2018 Illinois Tornado Drill. Considering my good luck in Eldorado on the last trip, I decided to come back. This time to a cool, roof-mounted Banshee 115. It’s located atop the (former?) city hall and museum. To my surprise, there’s also a Darley Model 2 up there that I didn’t notice until the drone was up.

This was easily the windiest siren recording I’ve done. The drone could barely stay still, only got a few usable shots. I had to mount everything low and try to block some of the wind with my car. And yet I still got camera shake and wind noise. I could hear what appears to be Harrisburg’s T-128s from a whopping seven miles away. I’ve enhanced the audio but it was still clearly heard. It’s possible there’s an eight port siren that’s closer but then again the wind was blowing from that direction so it probably helped carry the sound. To top it off, I’m pretty sure the wind helped keep the chopper spinning during the wind down. At first I thought it was just the momentum and bearings alone. But it just kept going. It was still spinning when I finally left. I'd post the full video but nobody is going to watch 15 minutes of a chopper winding down.

Much like the majority of Illinois, sirens in Eldorado are tested every first Tuesday of the month at 10AM if no severe weather is expected. They are activated by the city police or fire department.

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