[net-gold] SPORTS: FOOTBALL: COLLEGE : WEATHER: When Storms Rush in, a Waiting Game Begins
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- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:48:14 -0400 (EDT)
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SPORTS: FOOTBALL: COLLEGE :
WEATHER:
When Storms Rush in, a Waiting Game Begins
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When Storms Rush in, a Waiting Game Begins
By MIKE TANIER
Published: September 23, 2011
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/sports/ncaafootball/
colleges-play-it-safe-in-stormy-weather.html
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In the old days, nothing delayed or postponed a college football game.
Athletes played through blizzards, 60-mile-per-hour winds and pounding
rain.
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This season, college football games have become like late-summer trips to
the municipal pool. If lightning flashes in the distance, whistles blow
and its everybody out.
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Last Saturday, a three-hour weather delay caused Oklahoma States game at
Tulsa to kick off around midnight. A game between Baylor and Stephen F.
Austin on the same night was halted in the third quarter because of
thunderstorms.
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Notre Dame Stadium was evacuated twice during the teams season opener, the
first evacuations in the buildings 80-year history. Games in Michigan,
Iowa, Tennessee, New Mexico, West Virginia and elsewhere have been delayed
or shortened, often with stadium evacuations. Hampton and Bethune Cookman
were delayed in Daytona Beach, Fla., on Thursday night, and with rain in
the forecast Saturday for much of the country, there could be more
disruptions to come.
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The 2011 season has become the Year of the Weather Delay, but the root
causes are easy to understand. The N.C.A.A. and its member universities
have become more cognizant of the dangers posed by severe storms. Weather
forecasting technology has improved. And a post-Sept. 11 emphasis on
emergency planning and evacuation procedures has made clearing a stadium a
safer, easier choice for event organizers.
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Harold Hansen, the director of life safety and security for the
International Association of Venue Managers, said that the emergency
procedures at many stadiums a decade ago were inadequate, if they existed
at all. He jokingly described the mentality as when something bad is
happening, call 911 and run out the door.
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Hansens is one of several agencies that conduct planning seminars for
arena and stadium managers. Tulsa Athletic Director Bubba Cunningham
attended a similar program four years ago. The primary focus of these
seminars is often anti-terrorism, but Cunningham found that the strategies
could be extended to protect spectators from more mundane but equally
dangerous threats.
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The N.C.A.A. revised its lightning policy in 2007: any lightning strike
within six miles of an open-air site automatically triggers a 30-minute
delay. The N.C.A.A. issued a reminder to universities this month to create
actionable weather service plans. Most now have detailed procedures for
delays and evacuations.
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Those plans begin with early storm detection. The guidelines in the
N.C.A.A. Sports Medicine Handbook still discuss darkening skies and
distant rumbles, but most colleges now use hand-held lightning-detection
devices, software and smart phone applications. Bailey recommends giving
fans a 30-minute window to seek shelter; early-detection devices and
modern storm-tracking software allow officials to implement plans well
before severe weather arrives.
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