Thankfully, despite a fair bit of concern (and not just by me!), we, B''H, had a pretty mellow night with two sirens back-to-back (so we were already in the mamad and just stayed there).
The BOOMS have been much louder and more intense. It has been hypothesized that the incoming missiles are being shot down closer to earth to prevent the spread of shrapnel ("shrapnel" here meaning giant hunks of metal and not tiny shards, as my brain thinks of the word).
Below are videos that people sent to our local news site (as the saying goes, don't go out and take vidoes during sirens. There will always be someone more stupid doing it):
Warning that you will hear sirens in the video
Got up in the morning and went for a run. 4/5 of the way through my run, a pre-alert went off. Thanks to my background brain noise of pretty much always thinking of where I would go if an azaka went off, I (fairly) calmly reached for my phone and pulled up the code for an apartment building I was near (see, being a nice person and passing along back issues of Mishpacha magazine paid off and I knew the code!). 2 minutes in and still quiet. I ran to the mercaz (MUCH faster than the rest of my run had been). And then needed to decide if I should try to make it down the main street and get home (but those are all private houses so nowhere to pop into if the siren went off). Decided to hang around the mercaz.
Stopped my run tracker and stood near the grocery store that has a mamad in the back. Still nothing, 3 minutes in (most sirens start between 4-10 minutes after the pre-alert). Had the great idea that I should do some grocery shopping so got the milk, yogurt, etc that we were low on. By the time I was done with that, hurrah--although no offical "all clear" it seemed quite clear that nothing was happening in our neck of the woods. As I was walking home we got the all clear.
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