{"id":130518,"date":"2026-03-18T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=130518"},"modified":"2026-03-17T16:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:56:16","slug":"today-march-18-statewide-tornado-drill-with-sirens-set-for-950-a-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/today-march-18-statewide-tornado-drill-with-sirens-set-for-950-a-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Today, March 18 &#8211; Statewide Tornado Drill with Sirens Set for 9:50 a.m."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 9:50 a.m. today, March 18, Delaware County will participate in a statewide tornado drill. Expect to hear sirens at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"first-para\">With spring\u2019s potentially unstable weather, please note the outdoor warning siren protocol: During a <strong>tornado warning<\/strong>, the sirens operate on a 3-minutes-on, 10-minutes-off cycle for the duration of the warning. No all-clear message is issued via the sirens, so it&#8217;s important to have a way to receive emergency communications while you shelter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"first-para\">The safest place to shelter is in a basement or windowless interior room on the lowest level of a building.<\/p>\n<p>For more tornado safety information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ready.gov\/tornadoes\">https:\/\/www.ready.gov\/tornadoes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Delaware County Emergency Management<br \/>\nContact: Online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delcoema.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.delcoema.org<\/a>, on social media @delcoema, or by telephone at (740) 833-2180.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 9:50 a.m. today, March 18, Delaware County will participate in a statewide tornado drill. Expect to hear sirens at this time. With spring\u2019s potentially unstable weather, please note the outdoor warning siren protocol: During a tornado warning, the sirens operate on a 3-minutes-on, 10-minutes-off cycle for the duration of the warning. No all-clear message [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campuswide-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130519,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130518\/revisions\/130519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}