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Severe Weather Emergency Action Plan
To quickly contact all the buildings on campus in the event of an emergency
such as severe weather or other disaster. The phone tree is meant to expedite the process of contacting each building on campus with emergency information. In order for this system to work properly each building must take some responsibility in developing the phone tree to meet the needs of the individual departments and people who share its facility. In other words each building listed on this phone tree should make sure that they have a system in place to contact all those areas with-in their particular building should an emergency be communicated. For Example;
Public Safety Public Safety will initiate the phone tree when conditions exist that the college community needs to be contacted, such as a severe weather warning. The Public Safety Department along with the college switchboard will make the first 9 phone calls noted on the phone tree. If you cannot get hold of someone on the phone tree continue to the next one on the list and continue to call until you reach someone. Severe Weather Instructions can be found on the Public Safety Web Page. Hope College has developed a campuswide Emergency Action Phone Tree which is activated by Public Safety whenever a tornado watch or warning is issued. When you become aware of a weather warning you should do the following: In the event of a TORNADO WATCH (weather conditions which may develop into a tornado.)
In the event of a TORNADO WARNING (actual sighting of a tornado by spotters or Doppler radar in the Ottawa County area.)
Do not clear your shelter area until officially given the all-clear
for Ottawa County by the National Weather Services via local television
or radio. Hope College will not issue an all-clear unless it is based
on official information from the National Weather Service. Most academic and residential buildings on campus are of heavy construction and shelters are available in these buildings. The shelter areas are designated by color coded signs which are blue and red. The blue signs indicate direction to the shelter areas. The red signs indicate the actual shelter area.
YOU THE WAY TOWARDS THE SHELTER AREA. If you are in a building which does not have designated shelter areas you should proceed to a building which does. Check this out in advance and learn which building, closest to the building you work or live in, has a shelter area. If your building does not have a designated shelter area you may go to one that does. If it is not possible to get to a shelter area, you should go to the lowest level of the building you are in and look for interior space away from load-bearing walls on the south and west sides and away from windows. Buildings with designated shelter areas are: Admissions House, College
East Apartments, Cook Hall, Cosmo/Wyckoff, DePree Art Center, DePree
Art Center, DeWitt Center, Dow Center, Durfee Hall, Dykstra Hall, Gilmore
Hall, Graves Hall, Haworth Center, Kollen Hall, Kraker Apartments, Lichty
Hall, Peale Science Center, Phelps Hall, Scott Hall, VanderWerf Hall,
Van Vleck Hall, VanZoeren Hall, Van Wylen Library, and Voorhees Hall. Electrical storms happen quite frequently in West Michigan. Electrical storms do not require class cancellations. However, departments with outside activities should either move indoors or cancel the activity. This may include athletic events, student activities, or other college sponsored events. Power outages can result from electrical storms. If the power goes
out, turn off computers and monitors until power is restored. We recommend
that you wait for several minutes to see if the power returns before
ending your activity. Snowstorms rarely result in cancellation of classes. However, in the
event that classes must be canceled, the President and Provost will make
this determination based on local conditions. Messages about cancellation
of classes will be posted on KnowHope, distributed by e-mail and broadcast
by area radio and television stations. We recommend that you listen to
WHTC-AM (1450). Decisions generally will be made by 7 a.m. Do not call
the college switchboard. Radio Stations WHTC WOOD http://www.earthwatch.com |
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