http://crookedtimber.org/2004/10/11/comic-disaster-relief/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sat, 26 May 2012 05:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://crookedtimber.org/2004/10/11/comic-disaster-relief/comment-page-1/#comment-45803 Kieran Healy Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:06:48 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=2338#comment-45803 <i>If your social sciences building is like my engineering school building, it does contain a cafe with an oven that can catch on fire.</i> In my experience, the presence of something like a cafe is one of those things that distinguishes engineering from social science buildings. If your social sciences building is like my engineering school building, it does contain a cafe with an oven that can catch on fire. In my experience, the presence of something like a cafe is one of those things that distinguishes engineering from social science buildings.

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2004/10/11/comic-disaster-relief/comment-page-1/#comment-45811 Tracy Tue, 12 Oct 2004 08:16:10 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=2338#comment-45811 If your social sciences building is like my engineering school building, it does contain a cafe with an oven that can catch on fire. Which, funnily enough, caused all the real evacuations I ever went through at uni. We suspected the fire engineers of regularly pulling pranks. I do recall being evacuated from the chemical engineering building once and standing at the designated evacuation point speculating with my friends about what all the tanks nearby contained. If your social sciences building is like my engineering school building, it does contain a cafe with an oven that can catch on fire. Which, funnily enough, caused all the real evacuations I ever went through at uni. We suspected the fire engineers of regularly pulling pranks. I do recall being evacuated from the chemical engineering building once and standing at the designated evacuation point speculating with my friends about what all the tanks nearby contained.

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2004/10/11/comic-disaster-relief/comment-page-1/#comment-45810 Tracy Tue, 12 Oct 2004 08:15:27 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=2338#comment-45810 If your social sciences building is like my engineering school building, it does contain a cafe with an oven that can catch on fire. Which, funnily enough, caused all the real evacuations I ever went through at uni. We suspected the fire engineers of regularly pulling pranks. I do recall being evacuated from the chemical engineering building once and standing at the designated evacuation point speculating with my friends about what all the tanks nearby contained. If your social sciences building is like my engineering school building, it does contain a cafe with an oven that can catch on fire. Which, funnily enough, caused all the real evacuations I ever went through at uni. We suspected the fire engineers of regularly pulling pranks. I do recall being evacuated from the chemical engineering building once and standing at the designated evacuation point speculating with my friends about what all the tanks nearby contained.

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2004/10/11/comic-disaster-relief/comment-page-1/#comment-45809 s_bethy Tue, 12 Oct 2004 03:23:12 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=2338#comment-45809 <a href="http://diptych.blogspot.com/2004/10/which-part-of-you.html">Be Prepared</a> Be Prepared

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2004/10/11/comic-disaster-relief/comment-page-1/#comment-45808 Josh Tue, 12 Oct 2004 02:50:49 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=2338#comment-45808 If everything went according to plan, it wouldn't be a disaster, now would it? Then you'd need to have "Minor Incident Preparedness Exercises" or "Slight Boo-Boo Drills". At least now you know that when something happens it will actually qualify as a disaster and possibly even hit the national news. If everything went according to plan, it wouldn’t be a disaster, now would it? Then you’d need to have “Minor Incident Preparedness Exercises” or “Slight Boo-Boo Drills”. At least now you know that when something happens it will actually qualify as a disaster and possibly even hit the national news.

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2004/10/11/comic-disaster-relief/comment-page-1/#comment-45807 eszter Mon, 11 Oct 2004 23:26:18 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=2338#comment-45807 This reminds me of the <a href="http://campuscgi.princeton.edu/~eszter/weblog/archives/00000338.html">bomb scare</a> in Wallace Hall at Princeton in June, 2003. Nothing had ever made me feel as unsafe on that campus as the way public safety had handled the situation. This reminds me of the bomb scare in Wallace Hall at Princeton in June, 2003. Nothing had ever made me feel as unsafe on that campus as the way public safety had handled the situation.

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2004/10/11/comic-disaster-relief/comment-page-1/#comment-45806 Mark Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:40:06 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=2338#comment-45806 As reluctant as I am to say anything good about security, the real benefit of such drills is that you discover things that do go wrong and figure out how to prevent them. One them might be that you need to have the chemistry dept.'s delivery schedule so you can call Praxair and tell them to stop their sodium hydroxide delivery when you have an actual disaster. You might also discover that killing the power to the physics building trips a relay at the Sociology building. You can then plan and and take action on those problems. As reluctant as I am to say anything good about security, the real benefit of such drills is that you discover things that do go wrong and figure out how to prevent them. One them might be that you need to have the chemistry dept.’s delivery schedule so you can call Praxair and tell them to stop their sodium hydroxide delivery when you have an actual disaster. You might also discover that killing the power to the physics building trips a relay at the Sociology building. You can then plan and and take action on those problems.

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2004/10/11/comic-disaster-relief/comment-page-1/#comment-45805 Brad Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:16:09 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=2338#comment-45805 Jared beat me to the punch. Jared beat me to the punch.

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2004/10/11/comic-disaster-relief/comment-page-1/#comment-45804 Jared Mon, 11 Oct 2004 18:33:37 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=2338#comment-45804 Hah! It's White Noise! Hah! It’s White Noise!

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