November 30, 2010 Tornado Drills Put Into Action! AHHHHHHHH!!!
by LINDSAY GRIFFITH
At the beginning of every school year all the teacher have to tell their students the procedures for fire, tornado, and earthquake drill, so that on random days, the alarms sound, and the students know what to do. Most students play the drills off as a joke and take the time to catch up with friends and goof off. When the alarms sound, students jump up with joy because they know it is just a practice drill; therefore, it shortens the class period. Even though it only takes a few minutes to run the drill, the little time not spent sitting in desk listening to boring material that will never come up again on our lives, is better than nothing. Students think that a natural disaster will never actually hit the small, quaint town of Alexandria, Kentucky.
Well, all of us were proven wrong on October 26, 2010. To me, it was one of the scariest school days I have ever experienced. A voice came on over the intercom telling the teachers to not use the projectors in case the storm hits like the weather men are saying. So, in anatomy Mrs. Khols had to hand write the notes on the white bored because all of the notes were on her computer, and she was unable to use the projector.
I looked out the window and noticed the sky had turned from sky blue to black. The trees were blowing every which way, and roofs were starting to blow off. Nothing more was said in that period, so the normal school bell rang and we switched periods. As soon as we got into G period the lights went out and everyone went into panic mode. I was in a room without any windows, so it was pitch black and scary.
Mr. Grosser came to our room and said we had to move to a room with windows. So, when we got into a different room, we heard a weird siren coming from outside. At that moment Mr. Stewart came around to all the rooms and told us that we had to get under our desks because a tornado warning was issued.
At this point, everyone really started to freak out because we did not know what was really going on, and if we were even going to make it out of school alive. This just shows that we, as students, should take drills more serious because we never know when we will need to use the safety drills in order to save our lives.
- Leave a comment
- Posted under Lindsay Griffith
