Tuesday, August 23, 2011

GTCC Under evacuation. Bomb?

We've been evacuated from GTCC. The campus is in chaos, and the cell tower is overwhelmed as very few calls are getting out. Fire and police are having trouble reaching campus, though you can hear their sirens in the background and barricades are being set-up. Rumors are rampant from bombs to on campus shooters. (It's now confirmed to be a bomb threat, technically four threats that occurred starting at 7:40 AM) Cars are barely moving,  and we've yet to even start our car as the number of students leaving campus at the same time has made it impossible. The people riding public transportation are queuing frantically for the single bus that has arrived. If this is a real emergency, then this campus is incapable of handling it well. We'd all be trapped in our cars, while the bombs or shooters went off.

You can't help but think of Virginia Tech. Just as America has changed since 9/11, all college campuses have changed since Virginia Tech. Yet still, very few people are taking this serious. Clearly this event has shown that this campus, far past capacity would be a tragedy in the case of a real disaster. We'd all be stuck in our cars, waiting to exit the poor road infrastructure both in and out of campus. At the very least, the campus stoplights, onto High Point Road should have an emergency setting that will not cycle for exiting traffic. (Update, Sheriff and State Patrol has showed up to direct traffic.) Then again, who cares about the "poor" students at GTCC?

Update: They caught the "Titan Bomber", whose real name is Shirley Hough Foster, age 58. Apparently she is a crack addict, who went back to school for the financial aid, and was unhappy with the attendance policy. The strict policy resulted in her prank calling the GTCC switchboard with a bomb threat to avenge her situation. She's now in jail on a $11,000 bail and will likely serve 5-10 years in a federal jail.

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