tornado drills
Storm safety practice
Tornado drills are practice exercises for responding to tornado warnings, typically conducted in schools and workplaces.
Participants move to designated safe areas—usually interior rooms or hallways away from windows—and assume protective positions.
Like fire drills, they prepare people to act quickly during actual emergencies: We had tornado drills every spring in grade school.
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