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To: exit82
Duck and cover - 4 short blasts, break, 4 short blasts, break - be under desk

Tornado - 3 short blasts, break 3 short blasts, get in hallway, go to knees, cover head

Fire drill - 2 short blasts, break, 2 short blasts, break, get in line to go outside.

Thinking back, yeah, it did scare me as we were always afraid it was real. For the tornado, it was real at least 4 times I can remember. We did tornado drills at home with my dad having a whistle.

120 posted on 05/13/2007 4:53:32 PM PDT by SoftballMominVA
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To: SoftballMominVA

Wow, that really stuck with you, didn’t it?

We didn’t have the terror of tornadoes, just hurricanes—bad ones were few and far between, and you had some notice of them coming, even back then.

But tornadoes can strike with a short warning time, and that must have been scary.

Thanks for that glimpse into your childhood.


124 posted on 05/13/2007 4:58:01 PM PDT by exit82 (Sheryl Crow is on a roll)
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