Day of unexpected crazy, with bonus awesome

[whymc]

Today was supposed to be a day all about giving a final exam. Instead, it ended up being a day of zany adventure. My class was interrupted by a tornado warning. I'm not sure why the university felt it would be better for my class to shelter on the bottom of a concrete buildig than on the 13th floor of said building. I mean, if the building

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On storm shelters..

[verymelm]

I lived in Seattle for three years. My first day at a new job, on the 39th floor of a 45-ish story building, we had an earthquake drill. I was told that appropriate procedure for an earthquake was to crawl under my desk to protect my head and neck from anything falling on me. I wondered whether the people below me thought their desk would protect them from me - and my desk, and the ceiling - falling on them. It struck me as the most useless piece of survival strategy I'd ever come across - and when you realize I grew up putting hardcover books over my head while sitting in a school hallway for tornado drills, that's saying something