And 10:30 pm also.

10:42 pm is yet a 3rd round of the sirens. My kids won't sleep with these things going off...sigh...

10:45 now, still going off.

wow, still going off and it's going on 11pm!! No one's going sleep any time soon.

Thanks for getting the scoop Amanda! I love how you rank right up there with the police for Lemonters! Keep up the great work!

This is ridiculous. The authorities in the town of Lemont better get their sh*t together. On Friday, the sirens were wailing with just a strong thunderstorm and some wicked lightning. I was driving from Frankfort, the very heart of the storm and through Tinley Park, also another area caught in the middle of that storm. Not one siren sounded in those areas. I got home to find my 64-year old father, paranoid and hiding in the basement with our family of turtles. There was not even a single tornado warning nor watch in the area the entire day, just of a severe thunderstorm. There was no reason for sounding the alert systems. And tonight, a crystal clear night with nearly a full moon the sirens are blasting. I was beginning to think we were under attack! Lemont officials, EPIC FAIL!

Still going on, 10 :49,

what happens if there is a real tornado?!?!? how do we know if its real or fake? these sirens are messing with my emotions!!

The alert was to let everyone know that Jewel finally got in some fresh produce.

The sirens did go off on Friday night in Lemont around 10pm, because we heard them and went to the basement. However tonight it took over 40 minutes for Lemont to activate the phone Emergency Alert System to notify residents that this was just a malfunction of the sirens, and not some looming refinery emergency.

I hardly think "panic" is the appropriate word. The people that live in Lemont aren't mindless idiots. I think extreme annoyance would be more appropriate due to the fact that it is 11 p.m. on a Sunday night and the sirens are disturbing the peace. Unplug them till tomorrow morning for heaven's sake. It's so ridiculous.

and they sounded the alert system Friday because of dangerous winds and flying debris. and it was dangerous to be outside so people needed to be warned to take cover. Those sirens are not just for tornadoes.

I guess nobody's to blame for this. Now if those things were operated by a private business, people's asses would be on the line to shut them off, but since we can't do anything now but look to the village, there's nothing we can even do but move on and hope it doesn't happen again. Just a thought, now im going back to bed.

It was a system malfunction. Plain and simple. No one's to blame and the people involved were doing their very best to take care of the issue. I'm sure if the sirens could've simply been "unplugged" they would've been.

That's true, Amanda got this posted so we would know. Thanks. But Friday, apparently when a real tornado was in the area-we didn't hear any sirens. Sunday, clear sky-sirens. Oh yeah, I'm clear across Homer Glen also.

It was very disturbing last night and since the weather was not showing signs of tornado thought this might be related to a homeland security issue. It's really not a matter of blame but rather responsibility in making sure training, operation and mechanical issues with our siren system are appropriate. It is true this is not the first time we have had confusion about our tornado system so I truly believe it's time our village got it corrected.

Well being on the edge of Orland Park and Homer Glen, we've never heard it before when we needed to. I also contacted the Village of Homer Glen and told them we never hear them when they have them on. We've heard Orland Parks once in a while, when we needed to. This was the first time we heard the sirens from Lemont.

There is no pleasing some of you. You're mad that they went off Friday but you'd be mad if they didn't go off and something happened. There were tornado force winds without a tornado. Better safe than sorry.

As far as the malfunction ... stuff breaks. Deal with it.

I received an email about a comment that isn't posted. I think the main point of all the comments good and bad is for the system to work correctly so that we are all safe. Sure, stuff breaks but in this case a 'malfunction' like this could be deadly.

Just an idea. If this ever happens again you have the ability to interrupt the T.V. stations with an announcement. Make that announcement that it's a false activation. That will keep the 911 lines open for real emergencies. With the chance of severe weather today, if the sirens are still down, what's the back-up plan for notification?
Brian

To add insult to injury, the storm on Friday was already ripping through town downing trees and 10 minutes later they decide to sound the sirens. A little late considering Romeoville and Joliet were hammered before us.

There's obviously something wrong with the system that needs to be fixed IMMEDIATELY.

Maybe a clue: I was watching NBC last night, and while the sirens were going off, a Severe Thunderstorm Warning flashed across the screen with a radar shot of what looked like Friday night's storm. That's when I got REALLY freaked out and checked the radar online. But I'm absolutely positive that it flashed and then was quickly gone. Maybe that's related to why the sirens went off?

Maybe we should be asking some 13-year-old kid if the system got hacked into. They seem to understand computers better than we do.