{"id":5263,"date":"2024-01-24T21:08:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T21:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=5263"},"modified":"2024-01-24T21:08:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T21:08:20","slug":"what-to-do-if-you-live-on-campus-during-severe-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/01\/24\/what-to-do-if-you-live-on-campus-during-severe-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"What to do if you live on campus during severe weather"},"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 As tornado season in Alabama gets closer, Troy University resident assistants are ensuring students that they are ready for a severe weather scenario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many Alabamians are accustomed to tornados. In fact, there has already been one tornado warning since Troy University started the spring semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since many TROY students live on campus, resident assistants have been trained to handle severe weather, including tornado warnings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;If we have tornadoes coming through, we will tell all of them to come downstairs and line both our hallways,&#8221; said resident director Michaela Meadows. &#8220;We want to get them away from all the doors and windows. We also don&#8217;t want them staying in their rooms because, again, a lot of windows, a lot of glass so we get them downstairs safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once everyone has made it into the hallway, resident assistants take roll call to make sure no one was missed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We send a text,&#8221; Meadows explained. &#8220;We knock on all the doors and we&#8217;re like, &#8216;hey, get downstairs, we have tornadoes.&#8217; Please just come downstairs to so we can keep up with you.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Meadows, she feels confident that she&#8217;s doing everything she can to keep everyone safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We are very in control of the the situation. Usually people feel very safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meadows also suggested that students have a pre-prepared &#8220;go bag&#8221; in case of severe weather. According to the National Weather Service (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/owlie\/emergencysupplieskit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NWS<\/a>), emergency supplies include bottled water, first aid supplies, sleeping bags, etc. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 As tornado season in Alabama gets closer, Troy University resident assistants are ensuring students that they are ready for a severe weather scenario.<\/p>\n<p>Many Alabamians are accustomed to tornados. In fact, there has already been one tornado warning since Troy University started the spring semester.<\/p>\n<p>Since many TROY students live on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/01\/24\/what-to-do-if-you-live-on-campus-during-severe-weather\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":5265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[1366,1369,1365],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-5263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-dorm-life","tag-resident-assistants","tag-severe-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5263","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=5263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5263"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=5263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}