Emergency Shelter Area.

Here at the state, we have an underground parking structure below our office building. Whenever there is a tornado warning, we are instructed to go to the bottom level of the structure until the warning is lifted.

In an effort to reassure state workers that they are indeed where they are suppose to be, the state has posted signs on the wall that say “emergency shelter area”. But, instead of reassuring state workers, the signs only added to their confusion. This fact became evident during our last storm warning drill.

After reporting to the parking ramp, I noticed that people were clustered around the emergency shelter signs. I thought that this was rather unusual but I saw someone that I needed to talk to in one of the groups so I headed for the group.

As I got near the cluster, one of the women in the cluster hollered “this shelter is full, you will have to find another one.” And another said “they should mark out the shelter area on the floor so that we will know where to stand.”

Mystery solved. State workers, you got to love em.

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