Tuesday, July 10, 2012

PORTABLE CLASSROOMS: These can be death traps.

March 2012 Atlanta, GA classroom trailer storm damage.
"PORTABLE CLASSROOMS: These can be death traps. Portable classrooms are most often constructed like mobile homes; and they are just as dangerous. Any sound tornado safety plan must include getting students out of portable classrooms and into a safe area in the main building, as quickly as possible, to minimize the time spend outside and exposed to the elements. While the seconds spent outside will pose considerable risk, the danger inside the trailer is just as great. If feasible, students should be evacuated from portable classrooms before the storm threatens -- before the warning, when a tornado or severe thunderstorm watch is issued. Remember: Tornadoes can occur with little or no advance warning. Moving those students inside the main building for every SPC watch may be a hassle; but it may also save precious seconds and the lives of students if a tornado or extremely severe thunderstorm hits later."


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Posted by Janis Sartucci at 5:00 AM
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6 comments:

  1. There is no need to move kids inside just because there is a watch posted. Would be unthinkable to have one adult in the building watch the weather radar? How hard would that be?

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    1. You can leave your child outside during a tornado watch, mine will be inside.

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  2. As it states above, of course students should be moved out of portables before a tornado. But clearly it doesn't say we shouldn't have any portables. Also, the number of tornadoes in our area is only a few per year at the most.

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    1. Of course? Then why doesn't' MCPS do that? Why does MCPS leave students in classroom trailers during violent storms.

      Only a "few" tornadoes? This damage wasn't even from a tornado!

      Your point is that some students are expendable?

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  3. Um, has anyone here asked anyone in the know about these things? MCPS has a very good plan in place at every school in the county that details what to do during a severe weather event and it is practiced by every school every year.

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    1. Prove it.

      MCPS doesn't have a very good plan because students have been put on buses and sent INTO tornado watch zones.

      If the MCPS PR wants to make the "very good plan" public, post it. Why would it be a secret if it really existed?

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