Gone is the bullhorn. Instead, New York City emergency management officials have turned high-tech, using drones to warn residents about potential threatening weather.
With a buzzing sound in the background, a drone equipped with a loudspeaker flies over homes warning people who live in basement or ground-floor apartments about impending heavy rains.
“Be prepared to leave your location,” said the voice from the sky in footage released Tuesday by the city’s emergency management agency. “If flooding occurs, do not hesitate.”
because if you set off a siren like that, all of the Orthodox Jews will assume its the Sabbath and run home.
see, they already do this every Friday just before sundown to mark the beginning of the Sabbath, so…
edit: this may just be limited to Williamsburg/Bed-Stuy