{"id":231,"date":"2012-04-16T01:46:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T01:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mema\/?p=231"},"modified":"2012-04-16T01:46:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T01:46:17","slug":"somdnews-com-state-mandated-tornado-drill-blows-into-schools-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mdem\/2012\/04\/16\/somdnews-com-state-mandated-tornado-drill-blows-into-schools-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SoMdNews.com: State-mandated tornado drill blows into schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students take danger preparation in stride<\/p>\n<p>by\u00a0GRETCHEN PHILLIPS, SoMdNews.com Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Silent middle schoolers lined the halls Wednesday morning at Benjamin Stoddert Middle School in Waldorf.<\/p>\n<p>As unlikely as that sounds for an age group not known for solemnity, the school\u2019s hallways and interior walls were lined with students sitting quietly, some covering their heads in anticipation of a potential tornado.<\/p>\n<p>At 9:45 a.m., Principal Robert Babiak came across the public address system saying the National Weather Service had issued a tornado warning and asked that staff escort students to designated severe weather areas.<\/p>\n<p>The tornado warning Tuesday was only a drill.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.somdnews.com\/article\/20120413\/NEWS\/704139803\/1075\/state-mandated-tornado-drill-blows-into-schools&amp;template=southernMaryland\" target=\"_blank\">Read more here &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students take danger preparation in stride by\u00a0GRETCHEN PHILLIPS, SoMdNews.com Staff Writer &nbsp; Silent middle schoolers lined the halls Wednesday morning at Benjamin Stoddert Middle School in Waldorf. As unlikely as that sounds for an age group not known for solemnity, the school\u2019s hallways and interior walls were lined with students sitting quietly, some covering their<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mdem\/2012\/04\/16\/somdnews-com-state-mandated-tornado-drill-blows-into-schools-2\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[85,266],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-drills","tag-tornado"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mdem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mdem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mdem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mdem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mdem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mdem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mdem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mdem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mdem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}