Which radio station serves as a emergency alert system for los angeles and the IE?

[JoeLouis]

Growing up in Florida and being in elementary school when the Cuban missile crisis was going on and being across the bay from MacDill AFB we probably would have been burnt toast right off the bat if the missiles started flying. I definitely remember duck-and-cover drill three days a week while that was going on. I do remember it snowed in December of that year and the teacher wouldn't let us go out and play in it because she was sure it was radioactive fallout from "something that the commies did". Even at that young age, I was an avid radio listener and I never heard the Conelrad tones go off and the radio was on a LOT every day...and believe me, we had to know where every fallout shelter was on the walk to and from school. I can still remember where they were to this day and doing a Google Earth search shows that they're all gone.

I had a similar experience in '62, I was 8 and I couldn't sleep, had that Zenith AM transistor radio in my hand 24/7 (basically) I even kept my radio on 1240AM (CONELRAD), didn't come in very well (WWCO Waterbury) but that's what I listened to. Finally our neighbor (an Air Force Captain) came to my house an convinced me to relax, that nothing will happen, it worked and JoeLouis got some 😴 that's is some experience you had being that close to CUBA 😓

 

[Yabadabado1]

Growing up in Florida and being in elementary school when the Cuban missile crisis was going on and being across the bay from MacDill AFB we probably would have been burnt toast right off the bat if the missiles started flying. I definitely remember duck-and-cover drill three days a week while that was going on. I do remember it snowed in December of that year and the teacher wouldn't let us go out and play in it because she was sure it was radioactive fallout from "something that the commies did". Even at that young age, I was an avid radio listener and I never heard the Conelrad tones go off and the radio was on a LOT every day...and believe me, we had to know where every fallout shelter was on the walk to and from school. I can still remember where they were to this day and doing a Google Earth search shows that they're all gone.

Matter of fact, almost EVERY building along the main drag to and from school has been torn down and replaced. Couple of strip malls still there but with new tenants...the only thing still the same is the barber shop is still there, the same one my mom took me too for my first haircut and that's over 60 years ago. Different & younger barbers nowadays. Only thing roughly in the same place is the McDonald's even though it's a new one built over where the parking lot for the old one used to be. Probably still serving burgers from the new side of beef they got in 1968.