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Shelter-in-Place Locations

When Should I Shelter-in-Place?

During a tornado or other severe weather, residents will be instructed to shelter-in-place. This means you will take shelter in designated locations within the building rather than evacuating.

After moving to the designated location, remain close to the ground until the shelter-in-place warning is cleared.

Alderman Road Residence Area

  • Balz-Dobie, Gibbons, Kellogg, Lile-Maupin, Shannon, Tuttle-Dunnington, Watson-Webb, and Woody
    Residents should shelter in their hallways with all room doors closed. Cluster towards the middle of the hallway and sit on the floor away from the windows at the end of the hallways. Face away from the windows.

  • Cauthen
    Residents should move quickly to the first floor of Cauthen. Close all doors and shelter in the computer lab, hallways, bathrooms, or laundry room (all of these are rooms without windows).

  • Courtenay, Dunglison, and Fitzhugh
    Residents should shelter in the bathrooms within their suites, with the bathroom doors closed.

Bice House

Remain away from windows and do not use the elevators.

  • If it is safe, residents should move to the basement using the internal stairwells. Residents should close all apartment doors.

  • If residents are unable to get to the basement level, they should navigate to the lowest floor possible using the stairs. Avoid the first floor due to the large amount of glass on that level.

  • Residents can also shelter in the stairwells.

Bond House

Remain away from windows and do not use the elevators.

  • If it is safe, residents should move to the basement using the internal stairwells. Residents should close all apartment doors.

  • If residents are unable to get to the basement level, they should navigate to the lowest floor possible using the stairs. Avoid the first floor due to the large amount of glass on that level.

  • Residents can also shelter in the stairwells.

Brown Residential College

All residents should shelter in the tunnel hallways. Cluster toward the middle of the tunnels, sitting on the floor away from any windows or openings.

Copeley Apartments

Residents should remain in their apartments with all windows and doors closed. Move into a bathroom that has no windows, closing the bathroom door.

Gooch/Dillard

Residents should keep all windows and doors closed, sheltering in the bathrooms within their suites with the bathroom doors closed.

Faulkner Apartments

Residents should remain in their apartments with all windows and doors closed. Move away from windows towards the center of the apartment.

Hereford Residential College

Residents should quickly move to the lowest floor of their building that they can safely reach without going outside. In Whyburn and Norris, this is the basement floor.

Shelter in hallways with all room doors closed. Cluster towards the middle of the hallway and sit on the floor.

International Residential College

  • Gwathmey
    Residents should close all room doors and move to the east end of the first floor near the "mousetrap." Stay away from windows.

  • Hoxton
    Residents should remain in their rooms and move into the bathroom, closing the door.

  • Munford
    Residents should gather at the north end of the building and close as many doors as possible, or stay between arches in front of the Senior Resident apartment. Stay away from windows.

  • Yen
    First floor residents should go to the kitchen. All others should remain in their rooms and move into the bathroom, closing the door.

Johnson & Weedon Houses

Residents should quickly move to the lowest floor of their building that they can safely reach without going outside. In Johnson this is the basement floor. In Weedon, this is the first floor for most residents.

Shelter in hallways with all room doors closed. Cluster towards the middle of the hallway and sit on the floor.

Lambeth Field Apartments

Residents should remain in their apartments and move into the bathroom, closing the door.

Language Houses

  • French House
    Go to the carpeted area in the basement, using internal stairwells to get to the lowest floor possible. Stay away from all windows.

  • Shea House
    Go to the basement, shutting all doors to rooms. Use the laundry room and stairwells for overflow.

  • Spanish House
    Go to the common space for the first floor suite, closing all doors. Basement residents should remain in the basement hallway.

Lawn & Range

If the threat is imminent, residents should shelter in the wardrobe closet in their rooms until the shelter-in-place warning is cleared.

If it is safe for residents to move to a location other than their room, they should seek shelter in one of the Pavilions or the Rotunda, but only if they are certain they will be able to gain access to one of these locations after leaving their room.

Malone House

Residents should quickly move to the lowest floor of their building that they can safely reach without going outside. In Malone, this is the first floor for most residents.

Shelter in hallways with all room doors closed. Cluster towards the middle of the hallway and sit on the floor.

McCormick Road Residence Area

Residents should move quickly to the ground floor level hallways and restrooms. Close all individual room and external doors.