{"id":4095,"date":"2023-04-06T19:12:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T19:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=4095"},"modified":"2023-04-06T19:12:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T19:12:06","slug":"resident-assistant-gives-advice-amid-severe-weather-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/04\/06\/resident-assistant-gives-advice-amid-severe-weather-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Resident assistant gives advice amid severe weather season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 During severe weather season, students may ask &#8220;what should I bring&#8221; or &#8220;what should I do?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One resident assistant in Newman Center described some precautions and steps that students can take.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We&#8217;re here to make sure every student is safe,&#8221; said resident assisant Izayaah Rich. &#8220;That&#8217;s what I signed up for so if there&#8217;s bad weather, I make sure that I get every student out of their rooms, bring them down to the hallway and make sure everybody&#8217;s in the hallway and I have to be sure that they&#8217;re safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When it comes to precautions students can take before severe weather hits, one student suggests having basic necessities on standby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I have first aid kit, I have water, crackers and gummies,&#8221; said resident Maya Cottrell. &#8220;I have two packs of clothes and I have toothbrush, deodorant, toothpaste, stuff like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rich also urged students to be ready to go when severe weather strikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;When it comes to situations like this I&#8217;m really good at calming a person down and talking to them,&#8221; Rich told TrojanVision. &#8220;Getting them to understand that we&#8217;re doing this for your safety because we want you to be safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For additional severe weather tips, visit Trojan Outreach&#8217;s Instagram page or contact your own resident assistant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 During severe weather season, students may ask &#8220;what should I bring&#8221; or &#8220;what should I do?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One resident assistant in Newman Center described some precautions and steps that students can take.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re here to make sure every student is safe,&#8221; said resident assisant Izayaah Rich. &#8220;That&#8217;s what I signed up for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/04\/06\/resident-assistant-gives-advice-amid-severe-weather-season\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":4096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"topics":[17],"class_list":["post-4095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4095"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=4095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}