RadioAdvisory No. 241: When Disaster Strikes: Evacuating Unicoi Hospital (about 34 min.)
With spring bringing turbulent weather in WI, I thought this story was fitting for WI Librarians.
The podcast is only about 30 minutes long. It tells the harrowing story of Unicoi Hospital that had to be evacuated due to the rising storm waters of the nearby river. Read more (including transcript).
I remember storms in WI that made the waters rise, and closed roads so I couldn't get to work some days in Oshkosh, or violent wind storms that caused power to go out through most of the city -- also closing roads due to fallen trees. I remember floods where administrators and maintenance guys were banking sand bags to prevent the water in the run-off ponds from breaching our hospital building ...
It could happen to any one of us. What would you do in that situation? Granted: Saving a Library is a whole other story, but it does help to put things into perspective about what is really important and what isn't ... What can be replaced later, and what can't.
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