Today is Wednesday and after a few days of comfortably cool weather ht returned. Allay was sunny and hot and when we got home in the afternoon we had to turn on the air airconditioners.
When we took Abigail to school this morning the entire area around her school was cordoned off. Last night we went to a PTA meeting as good parents should and were told that there would be a "surprise" fire drill the next day. That was what was happening.
All the kids were led out to the street by their teachers to wait for the word when the "emergency" was over. This was all and good but it created such a traffic confusion that it was unbelievable.
When I worked in the City we had these drills several times but when 9/11 happened we were all left to our own. So, I wonder what would happen when a real emergency arises.
Here is a kind of funny story.
I worked for an engineering company in Manhattan for a zillion years. Our first about fifteen years was in an older office building where we had several fire drill throughout the years. These retired fire people came every year and told us what to do in case of an emergency.
Well, one year there was small fire in th building and we were asked to evacuate. That meant walk down to street level in an orderly fashion and exit through the fire exit door.
We all did that but to our surprise we were not able to open the exit door because outside there was scaffolding around the building and one frame was right front of the door blocking it.
That's organization for you.
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