Week 3 Happenings: Week of September 2, 2019
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Week 3 Happenings: Week of September 2, 2019 Hurricane Preparedness 1. NSU’s Emergency Notification System- Register here: https://www.nova.edu/emergency/notification/registration-process.html 2. NSU’s Severe Weather Emergency Procedures are included below (PDF). 3. If you are a residential student, contact your RA regarding the university’s procedures during a hurricane. 4. If you live off-campus, please utilize FEMA’s resources to help prepare yourself and stay safe: https://www.disasterassistance.gov/information/disaster-types/hurricane Ongoing Events: - Weeks of Welcome (WOW) o August 14th, 2019 - September 2nd, 2019 - Scuba Opportunities o Discover Scuba . Offered Saturday, September 7th, 2019; 7PM o Open Water Diver . Offered Wednesday nights, August 28th - October 2nd, 7PM o Advanced Open Water Diver . Offered Thursday nights, September 12th - September 26th, 7PM o Divemaster . Offered Friday nights, August 30; September 13, 27; October 11, 25; November 1, 15, and 22 Several Involvements and Engagements Opportunities: - S.O.S. Sharks on the SCENE Ticket Sales o Monday-Friday at 12PM-1PM . In front of the Office of Campus Life and Student Engagement in the Don Taft University Center - Intramural 4v4 Sand Volleyball o Monday, September 9th, 2019 . Contact Paul Joseph, [email protected] - Pre-Health Case Competition Information Session o Tuesday, September 10th, 2019 at 12:30PM-1:30PM . Art Gallery, 2nd floor Alvin Sherman Library https://nova.joinhandshake.com/events/324081 https://nova.joinhandshake.com/events/325137 - City Furniture Case Competition Information Sessions o Wednesday, September 11th, 2019 at 12PM-1PM . Room 1133, Carl DeSantis Building Room o Wednesday, September 11th, 2019 at 5PM-6PM . Room 1047, Carl DeSantis Building Room https://nova.joinhandshake.com/events/325136 - Sharks Abroad Fair o Tuesday, September 17th, 2019 at 11:30AM-1:30PM . Spine, Don Taft University Center Upcoming: - Human Trafficking Symposium o Tuesday, October 15th, 2019 at 9AM-4:30PM . Rose and Milfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center Shark Fins: https://sharkfins.nova.edu/ is a website that centralizes many of the events going on around campus. NSU Emergency/Hurricane Web Page Lightning Tornado Nova Southeastern University This site (www.nova.edu/hurricane) will provide Tornadoes, the most violent atmospheric storms, can form official information regarding campus closings, event Severe Weather Emergency What You Need to Know anywhere at any time. You must have a survival plan for cancellations, and campus reopenings. New information • NO PLACE outside is safe when thunderstorms are everywhere you may be. Discuss these plans with your Severe will be posted as frequently as warranted. NSU Hurricane Web Page in the area. family and friends and then make safety plans. It could NSU EMERGencY HOTline at 800-256-5065 will • If you hear thunder, lightning is close enough to save a life. www.nova.edu/hurricane provide official information regarding campus closings, strike you. Weather NSU Emergency Web page event cancellations, and campus reopenings. • When you hear thunder, immediately move to Tornado Watch safe shelter. A tornado watch is issued when weather conditions are www.nova.edu/emergency New information will be posted as frequently as Emergency favorable for producing a tornado or tornadoes. warranted. The main telephone number for the university, • Safe shelter is a substantial building or inside an NSU Emergency Hotline enclosed, metal-topped vehicle. (954) 262-7300, also serves as a HOTLINE during Tornado Warning 800-256-5065 or (954) 262-7300 hurricane watch/warning events. • Stay in safe shelter at least 30 minutes after you hear Procedures the last clap of thunder. A tornado warning is issued when one or more tornadoes have been spotted. Severe Weather Prediction System INDooR LIGHTninG SAFETY Tips Nova Southeastern University incorporates a severe • Stay off corded phones, computers, and other electrical Occasionally, tornadoes develop so rapidly that advance weather and lightning prediction system that is utilized by equipment that put you in direct contact with electricity. warning is not possible. Remain alert for signs of an approaching tornado such as a dark, often greenish sky, key personnel for event planning, facility management, • Avoid plumbing, including sinks, baths, and faucets. and the clearing of university athletic fields. In addition, large hail, or a loud roar similar to a freight train. • Stay away from windows and doors, and stay off porches. an outdoor speaker system that is part of the Emergency Do not lie on concrete floors, and do not lean against Notification System may be used to broadcast audible • Tornado Safety Rules concrete walls. severe weather and lightning warnings to all campus • An underground shelter, basement, or safe room is the athletic fields. All severe weather alerts are made LasT ResoRT OUTDooR RisK ReDucTion Tips safest place. available to the entire NSU community via the NSU NO PLACE outside is safe when lightning is in the area. • If no underground shelter or safe room is available, a emergency Web page, www.nova.edu/emergency, and If you are caught outside with no safe shelter nearby, the small, windowless interior room or hallway on the lowest the NSU hurricane Web page, www.nova.edu/hurricane. following actions may reduce your risk. level of a sturdy building is the safest alternative. • Immediately get off elevated areas such as hills, • Mobile homes are not safe during tornadoes. Abandon mountain ridges, or peaks. mobile homes and go to the nearest sturdy building or • NEVER lie flat on the ground. shelter immediately. • NEVER use a tree for shelter. • If you are caught outdoors, seek shelter in a basement, shelter, or sturdy building. If you cannot quickly walk to • NEVER use a cliff or rocky overhang for shelter. a shelter, the following are options. • Immediately get out and away from ponds, lakes, and n Immediately get into a vehicle, buckle your seat belt, other bodies of water. and try to drive to the closest sturdy shelter. • Stay away from objects that conduct electricity (barbed n If flying debris occurs while you are driving, pull over wire fences, power lines, windmills, etc.). and park. Now you have the following options as a If Someone Is Struck last resort: ◆ • Victims do not carry an electrical charge and may need Stay in your vehicle with the seat belt buckled. Put immediate medical attention. your head down below the windows, and cover your head with your hands and a blanket, if possible. • Monitor the victim and begin CPR or AED, if necessary. NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ◆ If you can safely get noticeably lower than the level • Call 9-1-1 for help. Public Safety Department of the roadway, exit your car, and lie in that area, 3301 College Avenue covering your head with your hands. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33314-7796 NOTE: This advisory contains only basic information on protection Your choice should be driven by your specific circumstances. from tornadoes and lightning strikes. For more information, contact www.nova.edu/publicsafety your local weather bureau or governmental agencies. Family Emergency Plan • Protect books, computers, and property with plastic Safety Procedures During the Hurricane Residential students will be notified by residential life Hurricane Storm sheeting and masking tape—contact Physical Plant for staff members. Make sure your family has a plan in case of an emergency. Follow the instructions of Public Safety, police officers, and plastic sheeting and tape. • When the “all clear” is given, exit your location with Before an emergency happens, sit down together and emergency personnel. Advisory and • Secure glass and heavy and sharp objects—carefully extreme care. Beware of potential life-threatening decide how you will get in contact with each other, where • Residence hall students should follow the instructions of store items so that they will not fall. safety hazards, both visible and hidden—e.g., downed Preparation you will go, and what you will do in an emergency. Keep a residential life staff members. electrical lines. copy of this plan in your emergency supply kit or another • Take rolodexes, books, and diaries with you. • Stay indoors until advised to exit. • Do not enter structures, vehicles, or areas that • Disconnect all electrical equipment. Hurricane season runs from safe place where you can access it in the event of a disaster. • Do not open windows or doors to see what is happening are damaged. For help creating this plan, visit www.ready.gov/america/. • Clear any laboratory tables and areas of all apparatus June 1 to November 30. outside. • For NSU opening information, call the NSU and glassware and place items into secure storage. • Beware of the eye of the storm. The eye is the center HURRICANE HOTLINE at (954) 262-7300 or the toll Hurricane Watches and Warnings • Computers: Copy important files onto portable media DEFINITION: of the hurricane, which may bring a temporary period free EMERGENCY HOTLINE at 800-256-5065. and take media with you. A hurricane is a severe tropical cyclone originating in A hurricane watch is a governmental agency announcement when the air is calm. Do not leave the safety of your • Enter NSU property only after permitted, and follow the equatorial regions of the Atlantic Ocean or Caribbean issued for an area when there is a threat of hurricane • D o not tape window glass. shelter until advised by Public Safety or local officials. safety instructions. Sea; traveling north, northwest, or northeast; and usually conditions striking within 48 hours. involving heavy rains. A tropical storm becomes a A hurricane warning is an announcement issued for an area Student Housing hurricane when its winds reach a speed of 74 miles per when hurricane conditions are expected to strike within 36 While Nova Southeastern University has identified off- hour. NOTE: The speed that a hurricane travels across hours. When a hurricane warning is received, all protective campus shelter for residents during a hurricane, during a Hurricane Information: Local Government Emergency land or sea is usually 10 to 20 miles per hour.