An air raid warning siren!
Have you thought about wire at all possible entry points?
That truly must be scary. For someone to break into another persons house shows a complete lack of empathy which makes them liable to do anything should they encounter the owner.
I am lucky being born in 1962 in Tasmania. Never ever have I been subject to air raid sirens.
I imagine them to be rather loud and shrill. How long do they go on for? Until the threat has passed?
Iām not old enough to remember how the real thing sounded, but Iāve heard it in films and it means something pretty awful, for hundreds of people in a neighbourhood, so I hope to never hear such a thing.
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The sound notification my phone makes when a debit order goes off my bank accountā¦usually around the first of every month.
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Let us hope there never is a reason to hear them. They are a daily occurrence in the Ukraine. Such a sad situation which is going on far too long.
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The banging of closet sliding doors in the middle of the night!!!
Hereās the true story of what Iāve experiencedā¦
Wow, what an experience for your girl to go through. 
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Aw! @Bretrick this took place in the 1980s, I didnāt have kids back then. I was the girl who went through that 
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Oh, I was a little confused, silly me, a brain fade. 
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OldBloke
Bretrick askedā¦
āHave you thought about wire at all possible entry points?ā
Hi Bretrick, reading this again I suspect youāve misundertood. I could have been clearer.
Our houses are āhi-setā houses. i.e. They have a full concrete base at ground level.
A wall surrounds that base completely and then the actual house enclosed part sits on concrete reinforced pylons.
There is roughly a half metre gap from the top of the wall to the undersisde of the floor of the house itself.
These possums climb up and thunder along the top edge of the wall in that half metre gap before getting in under the house where they make a mess & often do damage.
When I said surrounded I was meaning that entire gap needed the wire mesh to block these stubborn pests.
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Well explained there. I can picture it now.
Why have you not āwiredā the gap in your house. Or am I getting your explanation wrong again?
The sound of my girlfriendās husbandās key being pushed into the front door lock! That would do it, for meā¦cardiac ward, here I come!
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The sound of an air raid siren for sure. I was born in 1940 in an air raid shelter. Over the next 4/5 years of living in south London I grew to fear that sound. My fear these days is that we all may have to hear then once moreā¦but just the once!
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It must have been a chilling thing to hear
I have never heard one and I am quite sure I will never hear one.
Apparently they a being heard everyday across Ukraine
You scoundrel. 
Get yourself home and do penance.
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Yes ! Bretrick, I had replied at length explaining a number of reasons why a lot more than wire in gap is needed here. Included tree removal, stopping these vermin coming in over the roof, removal of 240v power line & telecommunications lines which they walk along to this house & even cross the road to other houses & more. 
Just as I went to send my reply the ābleepingā Intenet went down so I lost the lot.
Prolly one of these b****y possum vermin chewing on a cable ?? Censorship by possum??
AND I had offered in that reply to post you some parcels containing āingredientsā for a meaty āstewā with a distinct bushy flavour. Interested? Just a warning - be quick to collect the patcels and donāt leave them out in the sun - OK ?
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Footsteps getting louder and louder then the door handle slowly turns 
that would worry me .
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Very gothic Ripple
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That would worry me as well, considering I live alone. 
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