MELISSA BLOCK, host: And we're going to end this part of the program with another one of those sound clips. It's from a listener who works at one of our member stations in North Carolina.</s>BRADLEY GEORGE reporting: I'm Bradley George, I'm a producer and host at WFDD in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. We have a doomsday machine.</s>GEORGE: It's something that every radio station in this country has. It's called an emergency alert system decoder.</s>Unidentified Announcer: The weather service in Raleigh has issued a severe thunderstorm warning.</s>GEORGE: And it receives warnings and weather watches from the National Weather Service. There's a little bitty dot matrix printer that's embedded in the machine and it makes a peculiar noise.</s>GEORGE: You can occasionally hear it on the air and myself and all the other hosts have to learn how to dodge the sound, because technically it should be muted but sometimes that doesn't happen and it goes out over the air and it sounds a little like a teletype from days of yore.</s>MELISSA BLOCK, host: That sound clip from Bradley George at member station WFDD in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The emergency alert system is used nationwide. Tell us about a sound from your life. Go to NPR.org and search for sound clips.
Member station producer Bradley George, of WFDD in North Carolina, shares the latest in our series of listener-provided "Soundclips." He tells us about the "Doomsday Machine" — and puts a humorous spin on the apparatus that warns of impending danger.