evacuation

Colleges and Universities A-Z Tulane University
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<p>I just heard on the radio that a tropical storm may be headed to New Orleans, which got me thinking about how the university handles hurricanes, etc. I looked on their website and it suggested that the students are on their own--that they should fly out of the city somewhere--which seems to assume a lot, in terms of timing and funds. Am I missing something? Can someone with experience explain how this is supposed to work? My son has been there for four days so I have no idea what to do. Hopefully, the current threat will be a false alarm, but it does raise this question.</p>

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<p>I also have a new freshman, a D, at Tulane. I don’t know enough about Tulanes evacuation plans. I do know that my D is 16 hours from home and any number of emergencies can come up that require a quick airplane ride home. </p>

<p>I got a low limit ($500) credit card in my name, asked for an auxillary card in her name, and gave her the card with her name on it. I told her that the card was primarily for her to get a one way ticket home in emergencies and that she had to ask permission to use it for anything else.</p>

<p>So, I guess that is our own personal evacuation plan. The airlines may or may not through wrinkles into that.</p>

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<p>I also have a freshman this year. I do know that there are provisions for the students who don’t have a way to evacuate, whether it be because they have no where to go or an inability to get home or somewhere safe. They are bussed out of New Orleans to Jackson State University in Mississippi where they basically occupy the gym until it is safe to return to New Orleans. Not a terribly comfortable situation, but I am sure the students make the best of it.</p>

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<p>Students are strongly encouraged to have their own evacuation plan. There is a last resort option of taking a bus to an inland school (maybe Jackson State MS if I remember correctly) and sleeping literally on a gym floor. Students are supposed to register their evacuation plan with the school annually. This obviously gets easier after Freshman year when many students have cars.</p>

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<p>this is not a bad storm and is not going to be a bad storm. i would not be concerned. A lot of rain and that will be about it.</p>

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<p>Looks like its just going to dump a lot of water. These are not the kinds of storms that warrant an evacuation. I am texting my s to move his car to higher ground, but they wont hve to deal with anything major, I dont believe. Cowan has said in past talks that they have weathered storms with no need to evacuate-- that it is only the big ones that warrant more aggressive action (I am paraphrasing)</p>

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<p>The kids learned at orientation that they need to have an evacuation plan for when the city is ordered to evacuate. They filled out a paper that had their plan in it – with most cases, it usually means heading home by airplane or train ahead of a storm. For kids that can’t implement a plan or don’t have them, the school has buses/gym floor inland options.</p>

<p>New Orleans had voluntary evacuations in 2008 because of Gustav, but otherwise, unless the powers-that-be raise that possibility, and they historically don’t in the case of something like this, which is heavy rainfall, the kids will stay put and enjoy watching the water bubble up from the manholes…</p>

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<p>See the following link for updates. So far no evacuation.</p>

<p>[Tulane</a> University](<a href=“http://emergency.tulane.edu/]Tulane”>http://emergency.tulane.edu/)</p>

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<p>Not liking the looks of THIS: <a href=“http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/qpf/d13_fill.gif[/url]”>http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/qpf/d13_fill.gif&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;