Before Disaster Strikes
Before Disaster Strikes Tim Amyx Heather Harper Volunteer State Community College
Presentation Purpose • Encourage the creation of an emergency management plan on your campus • Provide you with information (stories) to stimulate emergency management planning on your campus • Provide suggestions as to what you can do in your own office even if your institution does not have a plan.
Who are we? • Public, 2-year institution offering degrees and certificates • 12 county (4,000 square miles) service area • 300,000+ households • Headcount 7300+ (credit) 2000+ (noncredit)
Creating the Emergency Plan • Created by committee – Campus Police Chief – Purchasing Agent – IT Director – Maintenance Director – ADA Representative
• Approved by Cabinet • Implemented and updated by Campus Police Chief
Emergency Plan Key Points • • • • • •
Plan is Available on the Web Drill Each Semester Campus Police Coordinate Building Coordinators Email Notices Speakers in Buildings/Offices
Tornado Timeline •
12:40pm The Tornado Starts: Benton County – Winds up to 72mph – Path 10 yards wide, 1.1 miles long – Trees snapped, loss of shingles
Tornado Timeline •
2:10pm Davidson/Sumner County – – – – –
Winds 158-206mph Path 0.5 miles wide, 23 miles long Davidson Co: 25 homes/businesses destroyed, 13 with major damage, 50 with moderate damage Sumner Co: 109 homes/businesses destroyed, 142 with major damage, 144 with moderate damage Eight deaths in Gallatin and over 150 injuries
Tornado Timeline •
2:23pm Volunteer State Community College – – –
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Most buildings with minor damage, 1 with major damage, 1 condemned Initial estimated damage exceeds 6 million dollars Three with minor injuries. One blown onto campus during storm and sheltered there. Two on-campus minor injuries to Vol State faculty, staff, students Zero classes canceled for Spring, Summer, and Fall semesters 1.5 years minimum time to rebuild (Yeah, right!)
Vol State Tornado Path
Story Time • • • • • •
Where was Tim Where was Heather 24 Hours Before… Practice Makes Perfect GAP Guy Building Walkthrough
What Can You Do? What we should have done. . . 1. Dust off your emergency plan. Read it. Understand it. Practice it. Change it until it works. If you don't have one, make one. 2. Buy a First Aid kit and flashlight for your office. Assign someone to take it with them in the event of an evacuation. 3. If you have a purse or some other critical personal belonging such as keys, take them with you when you evacuate. You might not be able to return for them. 4. If someone says evacuate. Do it. Don't complain. 5. Have an evacuation plan for your office to keep everyone together that fits within the institutional plan. It's easy to lose track of someone in an evacuation. You'll want to know your co-workers are safe. 6. Be sure you have everyone's cell & home phone number. Don't count on going back to your office to get a phone list.
Where Are We Now • • • •
Ramer Building Caudill Building Camp Caudill Outdoor Lighting
Questions
Presentation Purpose • Encourage the creation of an emergency management plan on your campus • Provide you with information (stories) to stimulate emergency management planning on your campus • Provide suggestions as to what you can do in your own office even if your institution does not have a plan.
Who are we? • Public, 2-year institution offering degrees and certificates • 12 county (4,000 square miles) service area • 300,000+ households • Headcount 7300+ (credit) 2000+ (noncredit)
Creating the Emergency Plan • Created by committee – Campus Police Chief – Purchasing Agent – IT Director – Maintenance Director – ADA Representative
• Approved by Cabinet • Implemented and updated by Campus Police Chief
Emergency Plan Key Points • • • • • •
Plan is Available on the Web Drill Each Semester Campus Police Coordinate Building Coordinators Email Notices Speakers in Buildings/Offices
Tornado Timeline •
12:40pm The Tornado Starts: Benton County – Winds up to 72mph – Path 10 yards wide, 1.1 miles long – Trees snapped, loss of shingles
Tornado Timeline •
2:10pm Davidson/Sumner County – – – – –
Winds 158-206mph Path 0.5 miles wide, 23 miles long Davidson Co: 25 homes/businesses destroyed, 13 with major damage, 50 with moderate damage Sumner Co: 109 homes/businesses destroyed, 142 with major damage, 144 with moderate damage Eight deaths in Gallatin and over 150 injuries
Tornado Timeline •
2:23pm Volunteer State Community College – – –
– –
Most buildings with minor damage, 1 with major damage, 1 condemned Initial estimated damage exceeds 6 million dollars Three with minor injuries. One blown onto campus during storm and sheltered there. Two on-campus minor injuries to Vol State faculty, staff, students Zero classes canceled for Spring, Summer, and Fall semesters 1.5 years minimum time to rebuild (Yeah, right!)
Vol State Tornado Path
Story Time • • • • • •
Where was Tim Where was Heather 24 Hours Before… Practice Makes Perfect GAP Guy Building Walkthrough
What Can You Do? What we should have done. . . 1. Dust off your emergency plan. Read it. Understand it. Practice it. Change it until it works. If you don't have one, make one. 2. Buy a First Aid kit and flashlight for your office. Assign someone to take it with them in the event of an evacuation. 3. If you have a purse or some other critical personal belonging such as keys, take them with you when you evacuate. You might not be able to return for them. 4. If someone says evacuate. Do it. Don't complain. 5. Have an evacuation plan for your office to keep everyone together that fits within the institutional plan. It's easy to lose track of someone in an evacuation. You'll want to know your co-workers are safe. 6. Be sure you have everyone's cell & home phone number. Don't count on going back to your office to get a phone list.
Where Are We Now • • • •
Ramer Building Caudill Building Camp Caudill Outdoor Lighting
Questions
