[Rakkasan1]

how hard is it to cut the power off to the horn with a pair of wire cutters? geez.improvising is a lost art.

[dirtboy]

how hard is it to cut the power off to the horn with a pair of wire cutters?

I imagine after two days of listening to a foghorn that locals are ready to turn off the power with a D-8 Cat.

[ncountylee]

Or a few .45 slugs.

[GOP_Party_Animal]

They don't want to go there because of the dangerous fog, silly.

[reagan_fanatic]

Damned fog people and their shenanigans...

[jwalburg]

[aomagrat]

[fuquadukie]

Did someone call?

[PAR35]

with a pair of wire cutters?

Wires are probably too think. Use a fire axe.

Shoot, you know the thing has a fuse or a circuit breaker. How stupid are Coast Guards officers these days.

[supercat]

how hard is it to cut the power off to the horn with a pair of wire cutters? geez.improvising is a lost art.

How does the foghorn work? Does it use an electric blower to drive a self-resonating flue pipe, or does it use an electrically driven vibrator, or does it combine a blower and a vibrator (using the moving air for mechanical amplification), or does it use an oversized siren blower, or what?

If the thing uses a blower and a flue pipe, sticking something in the mouth could stop it from resonating while allowing for an easy restart (just remove the item in question). If it uses an electrically-driven vibrator along with a blower, the vibrator wouldn't need a huge amount of current and so it might be interrupted fairly easily.

And if all else fails, stop paying the electric bill.