i’m sorry, i just don’t know

I live in rural Utah where potential disasters are taken very seriously. In fact, you could call emergency preparedness a hobby here. The first Sunday School meeting I attended after moving here was spectacular… with everyone in the chapel, a large projection screen was rolled out and we were treated to a special presentation. A local retired police officer showed us a terrifying slide show with images of floods, fires, and buildings blowing up. Honestly, it was the best Sunday School lesson I’ve ever seen!

And now, the emergency junkies have struck again… Utah State University police officers staged a mock shooting at the Education building on campus- complete with a crazed shooter, two guns (one with blanks that was fired over 20 times and another just for “fear factor”). He came in shooting and yelling for the Dean. Five people got “tagged out”. All of the staff in the building were supposed to be expecting the exercise… But the woman who locked her door and baricaded it with a Lazy-Boy and the whole conference room full of people who wouldn’t come out for 30 minutes after the shootings were apparently not informed.

Have I mentioned that I LOVE living in this valley? Goats, guns, and rock and roll.

Read the whole story on the Herald Journal Site.

“You either have to get out, hide out, or take out (the shooter)”- Emergency Manager Judy Crockett (one of the masterminds of this exercise, at the debriefing after the exercise.)  It’s a good thing my gun weilding neighbors weren’t up on campus when this happened, our crazed shooter might have had a mighty bad day.