EPTOn October 20 2010 03:22 phant wrote:
The process in schools was to hide under your desk, and then WALK out slowly like a minute later, there is no point to this, the immediate reaction should be to get outside ASAP before the building potentially collapses.
The process in schools was to hide under your desk, and then WALK out slowly like a minute later, there is no point to this, the immediate reaction should be to get outside ASAP before the building potentially collapses.
There is a very important point to this. To prevent panic and confusion. In a school, you have a shit load of children who are going to immediately panic. Many will die getting trampled. By forcing the kids under the desk first(remember how heavy duty your school desks were? More than ample to protect from most average sized falling debris from a single story tar covered roof.(sucks for you if your desk is under the AC unit). Never mind the fact that you are asking CHILDREN to calmly and QUICKLY escape quickly enough to avoid getting hit by debris with no desk over your head. I know in my grade school and high school, there were parts of the school that were a 5 minute walk from an exit. Without lines.
Don't forget about shattering glass in hallways with big windows, shit flying out of lockers, off of walls, and from the hallway plenum(where the majority of the piping and wiring along with associated hardware will be.).
But, now, once all children have hidden, an adult can calmly direct them out from under the desk, into a line, and outside.
Would you say it's better to have a small number of hurt people in group of calmly organized people, or giant rampaging mess of screaming children stomping on each other.
