Know Safe Shelter Areas

It’s the time of year for thunderstorms and potential tornado outbreaks. Familiarize yourself with the safe shelter areas in the buildings you frequent on campus. Prepare now, so you can act quickly in the case of dangerous weather.

Storm Shelter Areas

• Art Building: Interior rooms, restrooms.
• Ashby Hall: First floor restrooms, interior walls crouch and cover.
• Athletic Center: Locker room, interior hallways, restrooms, training rooms.
• Athletic Performance Center: Interior rooms and restrooms.
• Athletic Training Classroom: DO NOT SHELTER in this building. Move to a permanent building structure nearby like the Field House classrooms or hallways.
• Brewer Center: Interior rooms and restrooms, STAY OUT OF THE GYM AREA.
• Communications Center: Interior hallways, pool restroom.
• Dining Hall: Restrooms, kitchen hallways, and storage areas.
• Field House: Locker rooms, classrooms, restrooms, interior rooms, weight room, and hallways. STAY OUT OF THE ARENA AREA.
• Health Science Building: 1^st floor interior rooms, restrooms, hallways without windows.
• Hunter Center: Interior storage rooms, hallways, and restrooms.
• Jones Hall: First floor restrooms, interior walls crouch and cover.
• Lightsey Chapel: First floor chapel restrooms and basement, the lower level of the music building.
• Music Building: Basement, interior hallways.
• New Residence Hall: 1^st Floor interior hallways, stairwells, inside dorm room away from windows.
• Norris/Wingo Halls: First floor restrooms, interior walls crouch and cover.
• Nursing Building: First floor interior hallways and restrooms.
• Physical Plant: Interior offices, restroom.
• Physical Therapy Building: 1^st floor interior rooms, restrooms, hallways without windows.
• Quads: First floor restrooms or rear of any room on the first floor.
• Rivers Library: Library basement and restrooms.
• Russell West/East: First floor restrooms or rear of any room on the first floor.
• Science Building: First floor interior hallways and restrooms.
• Singleton Baseball Complex: Interior area, restrooms.
• Softball Center: Interior area, restrooms.
• Thurmond Center: First floor interior hallways and restrooms, faculty suite.
• Whitfield Center for Christian Leadership: First floor restrooms, first floor hallways away from glass windows and doors.
• Whitfield Stadium Center: Downstairs in concession area and restrooms.
• Whittington Hall: Interior classrooms and restrooms. DO NOT GO INTO LARGE BAND ROOMS.
• Wingate by Wyndham Hotel: First floor interior hallways and restrooms.
• Women’s North/South: First floor restrooms or rear of any room on the first floor.

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