Evacuation!!
@GardenGerty (169406)
United States
June 27, 2023 7:31pm CST
The sky starte red this morning, and then overcast. The wind came up and we had rain. The wind continued to be strange.
We were starting our session with our second group of students and the tornado sirens went off around town.
We went in a line to the Sports Aquatic Center across the street. It has a secure basement that will accommodate the entire school and then some. We joined the kids that had been in swimming lessons.
We were eventually notified that the wind had caused the sirens to malfunction, and we returned to class.
The rain stopped, the sun came out.
Better safe than sorry.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
5 Jul 23
You never really know. I am glad we have a safe place to go.
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@LadyDuck (502148)
• Italy
5 Jul 23
@GardenGerty - This is true, I am glad we had a shelter accessible from the basement.
@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
5 Jul 23
Yes. And the city let us know pretty quickly that it was actually safe.
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@BarBaraPrz (51811)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
28 Jun 23
Well, that broke up the day. I remember taking a computer course one year when the fire alarm went off. We were out about half an hour.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
5 Jul 23
It did break up the day, but our class times are short anyway. At least no one panicked. I have been told that if we are in town during severe weather and the sirens go off we can go to this same building.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
5 Jul 23
Me too. We have not ever had a tornado really close. But we have had warnings before.
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@DWDavis (25797)
• United States
5 Jul 23
@GardenGerty We had one pass within a mile of our school when I taught middle school
@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
28 Jun 23
I'm glad there were no tornados and that you all got to a safe place anyway.
It got nasty looking here this afternoon and we had a storm around 3 pm that lasted about an hour. We had some heavy wind but nothing else happened here. The sun is back out now.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
5 Jul 23
Mr. Sun just keeps on showing back up.
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
5 Jul 23
@GardenGerty Rain keeps showing up here. I hope you and your hubby are doing okay.
Screenshot is mine.
@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
5 Jul 23
That would be us if we were at home.
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@RubyHawk (99367)
• Atlanta, Georgia
5 Jul 23
@GardenGerty It’s different when you’re away from home.
@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
5 Jul 23
During the school year we do have drills. We practice going to this building, plus we practice how we would shelter in the restrooms if we could not get to the building.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
5 Jul 23
The city was on top of things posting to Facebook and on their website about it being safe.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
5 Jul 23
It seems we have fewer drills than we used to. So this was part of our "education" for the day.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
5 Jul 23
Yeah. At least these were older kids, 10-12 and they did not panic and knew what to do.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
5 Jul 23
Yes. Just another learning experience.
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
28 Jun 23
"Red sky in morning, sailor take warning." I'm glad it was just a malfunction.
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