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For this week's episode, we have a set of stories that's coming
just in time for peak baseball softball season.
Rain delays. That's right, we're talking
about weather. Just what you want to hear when
you're out of baseball. So this was a request from Josh
Oh, he said weather considerations and EAP planning.
I'm here in Texas and our state does not really regulate cold
weather conditions but heavily regulates heat conditions.
Perhaps an episode on the different types of weather
conditions, heat, cold, tornado, lightning, snow, earthquakes,
and how some new grads or even professionals from other states
can do to prepare for such events.
Earthquakes. Interesting.
Yes, and I did. I think we actually have
something for all of those, really, and fog and altitude and
avalanches. What I.
Know I know and we also actually have so many stories that I
don't know if we're going to be able to do this in one episode.
So let's see also just before we get started I I know that we
talked about this being a like how to weather episode, but
obviously this is going to be a little bit more anecdotal.
This is a story episode. We do have a BOC in real life
episode on heat specifically that you can go back in the
archives and look at that if you're looking for a little bit
more evidence based, but this one is going to be specifically
for from people who've dealt with weather.
Since we're from California, we don't really deal with weather.
Yeah, but sometimes you have to go to the weather.
And actually, that is my first, my first question I did ask on
our stories. How or have you ever had to
handle a type of weather while traveling to or after moving to
a new area that you weren't used to like?
Have you ever had to deal with sports in the snow when you
haven't been in the snow? Yes.
So 53% of people said yes, 47 said no.
So it was almost, it was like half, half.
That's even split pretty good. The first one's anonymous.
They said when I was at GA we didn't have cold weather
regulations. Being from California.
I was so cold, but we I had to put together a cold weather
plan. I wish they could come inside
for small periods if the weather was too cold.
I was working with lacrosse and it would be like 9° outside and
coach would still be practicing. I was surprised they didn't have
a plan made-up already. I know there wasn't a lot of
research at the time published so but we were still able to
find a plan from somewhere else and from what I remember it was
something like 30° or lower where extra layers 20°.
Get a break every 30 minutes for a certain amount of minutes. 15°
gets breaks every 15 minutes and then below 0 just cancelled
practice. And then they said, I wish I
remembered the details, but that was along the lines of it.
That's. Interesting, I've never heard of
that. That's kind of cool.
Yeah, honestly, like a heat is so regulated, but cold is like
really? Yeah, not.
You know, we need a, we have a position statement on cold
injuries, but I don't remember like hearing like like that kind
of regulations. So that'd be interesting if we
maybe we can update that bad boy.
Right. Yeah, 'cause maybe, Yeah, I've
never heard of that. That's pretty dope.
It is kind of like the heat ones, except for the obviously
adding extra layers, but it's kind of like the heat one, like,
hey, at this kind of temperature, you know, modify
practice at this one. Hey, you're not.
You need extra water break. Don't even look outside.
Don't even think about outside. Yeah, if it's definitely below
0, the thing that gets who? Who wants to be out there
anyways below 0? The thing that actually really
surprised me, and you can tell we're from California because
we've never had to deal with this, but when they're like, you
can't be outside for longer than however much time because it's
literally dangerous. It's too cold.
Yeah, that's that is definitely something that we don't we can't
fathom. No, like it doesn't even get
that hot. It gets hot for us, but like it
doesn't get that hot to the point that like oof.
That's hot. Yeah, it is.
You've had to deal with traveling to some weather.
Yes, man. My favorite was this is my
favorite story is cross country. In October, we decided, hey,
we're going to take a trip to the University of Minnesota.
It was eight. It was 8° at race time.
No thanks. Which oh was it like a?
Was it like a wet? Yeah, it was like.
A dry cold. No, it was cold it.
Was it did actually feel like real cold?
It was kind of rainy ish. Like I don't know it rainy is
not the right way of describing but it felt like like.
Humid. Kind of.
Or dry. I felt like it was more probably
humidity. So you actually felt how cold?
It was, but I feel like it wasn't like, I don't know, like
it didn't feel like significantly colder than if it
was like 30. I mean, it was cold, but like I
didn't feel worse than I would if it was just 30°.
But I wasn't worried about the athletes because they're
running, they're going to stay warm.
I was worried about me. I know you know what this guy
did? He just was like, yeah, I'm just
going to bring an extra pair of sweatpants to put on top of my
pants. And I was like, you know, that's
why I normally wear to work when it's like 60° here in
California. And it worked.
I had my sweats on top of my my khakis and then I just had a a
nice jacket. I felt pretty good.
Must be nice. But you know what, I did have to
prepare because one of my athletes, I would say, probably
had about mild hypothermia. That sucks.
Yeah. You had to get creative, too.
I put her basically in our because we got vans when we were
traveling. The vans had heated seats.
There you go. So yeah, threw in the van, threw
in the van, cranked up the heat and had the heated seats going.
We do have some cold tips later so I'll I'll save those till the
end. I'll keep it on.
That was just a little sneak peek teaser.
Do you want to read this one from Megan M about altitude?
Yes, Megan says it is always a challenge traveling to altitude.
Research isn't well supported for who it's going to nab.
And when traveling in and out over a weekend, we just have to
brace for the roulette of it all.
We typically fly in somewhere Friday like captain's run play
Saturday, fly out Sunday. No real way to prepare.
We push hydration the weeks leading up to it, rest and bring
boost with us. Then if it if it happens we
treat symptoms. Slash remove from match play if
necessary. You never know.
Occasionally a guy will know if he's prone to it or not.
Yeah, altitude is a pain. Yeah.
And even like, the way you learn it in school, like is like, you
have to take extra time for acclimatization.
But honestly if someone is dealing with altitude like you
have two options you can either wait it out and just treat the
symptoms or you can take them down from altitude.
And also what coach? Sorry for real life like money
and stuff. What coach is going to plan
extra time to acclimatize? Especially outside of
professional the professionals. And I mean, and Megan's talking
about. Professionals yeah, yeah, that's
true so even the. Professionals don't have time.
I would say even funding there too and resources and time.
I know I'd always love the cross country.
Beginning of the year, we're going to do our camp at like
wherever mountainous terrain. And then I go to our altitude
camp. I'm like, you're going for like
a weekend. Not only are you not
acclimatizing at all, you're just coming back here, right?
All you did was just make 2 days of hell, just two day hell
workout and that was it. If anything, you theoretically
could have made your perform your training even worse because
there's less air resistance up there.
So when you come back down to race at this level, it's you're
going against more air resistance.
It's different, Randy. I know I just always would love
that. I also asked if people could
think of a time that weather just made you had to change your
plans. And I feel like this is all the
time. Anywhere you go, like even
California, you can't get away from weather.
Like, I guess extreme weather you can, but there's always
gonna be weather. I've actually had it.
I've talked about this before. I've had an interview in one of
my interviews to get a job. They asked me how I would deal
with weather changes. I mean, yeah, which is weird for
it out here, 'cause like, again, I don't think we get that
weather. Yeah, but over there I did.
Yeah, I guess that's true because when I think of that, I
think of like like Texas, Kansas areas 'cause they host like
track regionals a lot. And that was always the the
complaint of every time. Luckily I was, I lucked out.
I never had to go on those trips.
My trips are always Sacramento. Yeah, well, all my weather
stories are from the place that asked me about, that's
interesting, changing weather. Yeah.
And I'll share some of them later.
Rebecca R says we were still in the process of building our new
facility, so only the turf was down and the shell of a
building, which is the only thing that people could go in,
was a bathroom. I was working Mens lacrosse, and
with two seconds left in the first half, I had to call a
lightning delay because it was raining, snowing and there was a
thunderstorm. It was freaking wild.
We end up losing because all our kids had to go to their own cars
while the other team got to go on a bus and could talk to each
other. Weird day.
My coach was pissed. I bet, I think, oh God.
Well, this this just reminded me of when we traveled to women's
soccer state and there was a lightning delight.
OK, this is this is what with the host a TS, We looked at the
lightning. OK, we looked at the lighting.
It was 1800 miles away, 1800 miles away.
So we're like, oh, chill. Like we probably won't have to
deal with this. No, we totally had to call
lightning delay for an hour in between the halves because a
lightning storm started right on top of us.
Nice. I mean, I guess I have to start
somewhere, but I just never really thought about it until
that happened. And then all of a sudden we're
like, oh, we have to get people off the field like right now.
Like no warning, just like right now.
That's pretty bad. Yeah, that's very unlucky.
That reminds me of my favorite lightning delay stories is one
time, one year with my women's soccer team, right?
We just had this huge downpour. There was lightning.
We had to, so we we didn't have our own facilities, right?
So we're using a community facility, right?
So we go into where like our locker rooms would be.
We're stationed there. Finally, the park itself closed
the park. The park said Yep, we're done,
even though the lightning stopped and like, we could have
played this game. You know, that's sometimes, like
your facilities have more, yeah, like rigid rules or whatever,
and you have to like, deal with that.
Yeah. So the park closed.
So we had to basically, I don't want to say cancel because we
did end up, I think we did reschedule it, but we basically
cancelled the game that evening, not because of lightning,
because the park closed because of the weather, even though the
lightning was gone. I find that too like like
they'll the facilities will close more like conservatively
because of like water and like floods too because they want to
protect the. Fields.
And that's what it was. It was they were, they were
because it was pouring. They closed because of the
fields. That's really why it wasn't
necessarily the lightning, but the rain and lightning that
just, they were like, yeah, we're done.
What makes that my favorite story is that same team
travelled to us the next year. Lightning delay.
What are the chances? What were the odds?
So I had to tell this coach a second year in a row, hey, we
got to go on lightning delay. You know, I don't know why this
reminded me of it, but this is like totally off topic, but you
had two lightning delays with the same coach.
In the two years that I've worked at my current job, no one
has asked me for liquid Band-Aid.
No one. Not a single person, and today I
had three different people ask me for liquid Band-Aid.
Isn't that nuts? That's weird.
It was so bizarre. That's really weird.
Like I literally looked at the third person and I was like, I
actually cannot believe you asked me this.
Like I, I understood the first one like, 'cause like out of the
blue. And the second one was like, oh,
how funny, like little coincidence.
And the third one, like I was like, what's happening?
What is happening? Crazy, Natalie T says worked a
baseball tournament that got cancelled because of fog.
Games were called at 11:00 PM, but we stayed until 1:30 AM to
see if the fog would lift. You couldn't see second base by
the time we left. I feel like at 11, just let's
all just go home. Why?
Who wants to play baseball at one AMI?
No, I don't. I guarantee you no one wants to
be there. The coaches don't want to be
there. Like no one wants to be there.
Just go home. Baseball's already long.
I know, could you imagine playing at 1:00 AM?
No, also I just think it's funny because I feel like the longer
you wait the fog just gets worse.
I was going to say like, I feel like the colder it's getting, I
don't think that fog is lifting. Right, right.
I know they said if the fog would lift in quotes.
So like, obviously this person knows like that's not going to
happen, but crazy. Science.
But yeah, fog, fog is like, I think something people don't
think about. And it's not like you can look
at a weather app and be like, Oh yeah, we're it's gonna be foggy.
Yeah, you know. That's wild.
It is. Speaking of weather apps,
actually I did ask what your favorite weather monitoring apps
are and by far, and I think this is probably because NATA, it
talks about it Weatherbug weather, which actually I don't
personally use, I used to use. I feel like it just looks wonky
and like it's just not clean and it's like a little bit it's a
lot. It's a little like.
Sketch.
It's not sketch. It looks sketch to me.
Really. Well, you open it, there's like
ads and pictures and there's just like.
Yeah, there's just like a bunch going on.
Like I feel like it's not clean. I feel like you're.
Gonna get a virus if you open it.
So. Someone I do use weather bug.
Oh, do you? Yeah.
Someone's got to give us a time stamp for the most recent
lightning distance and when play can resume, which is cool.
That's cool. I feel like it was harder for me
to use weather bug than my lightning tracker, which was
actually our third top app. Which I'd say I use that one
too. My lightning tracker is like
bright yellow and you can set the the radar to like how many
miles you want it to notify you. So like it will notify you like
all out of the blue. I'll get a notification that
there's lightning within 12 miles and like, oh, perfect.
This is great. Isn't the weather bug use the
same system as the mind lightning tracker?
Or something like that. No idea I.
Feel like I heard that so I feel like the lightning tracker is
the same thing as weather bug so I.
Think it's just nice, although they did add ads to it now.
You can get the pro version for like 5 bucks but I gotta pay for
No I know you got to pay. I use both.
The second one that the the second top app people said is
Perry weather and then the another top app people you are
use are weather sentry. So I haven't checked.
I know I've heard of them. I I haven't checked out either
of them because I'm very happy with like my lightning tracker
and other than that I just kind of use a weather app.
Yeah, if anything, what has been hitting us the past few years is
air quality. That.
That one's been the one that's been the hardest for.
US air now. Air now, yeah.
Yeah, air quality, especially like fires.
Yeah, Yeah. So Speaking of fires and hot,
let's talk about heat. That was a good segue.
I did ask about wet bulb globe temperatures.
If like the Kestrel or like whatever you use your WBGT, is
it a friend or is it a foe? What do you what?
Wait what? What do you mean by that?
What do you? What do you?
What do you mean by is it a friend or a foe?
Like what's the context to sport or to me?
To anything. I think it's a friend.
OK. Well, you're with 74% of people
say it's a friend. I think the one that's a foe is
the sling psychrometer. That's something you should make
your students do. Hey, go to the field.
Just. Yeah, give me a reading on that
bad boy. I had to do it.
Everyone has to do it, I sat. There, slinging that thing, you
don't realize how long a minute is until you're at 2nd 20 and
you're like, man, my arms crushed.
Yeah, it's been a while since I've used one of those.
I honestly. I don't think I've used it since
I was a student. No, why would you wet bulb
globe? I use the wet bulb.
I think actually some something that I noticed that I think
people are a little bit confused about.
So if you're, if you're going to the heat get a little bit more
acclimated between wet bulb globe temperature and heat index
'cause sometimes people were mixing those up a little bit.
So those are two very different things.
They also have two different a charts and how to use on the wet
bulb globe. There's also different settings
that say like ambient temperature or like humidity or
like wet bulb globe or like whatever.
So like you kind of have to go through the settings and like
you can't just turn it on. Also, something that people
don't know about the wet bulb globe is you can actually put
it, you can put your zones like black zone, red zone, orange
zone, like whatever yellow zone. And then you can you can set the
percentage or the wet bulb globe numbers that you want and it
will like give you a like it will leave either start like
flashing and beeping in black or like it will just start
flashing. Yeah.
So like you can actually set it. So then when it's sitting
outside you can you can actually know that's cool instead of just
staring at it the whole time. That's cool, I I work inside.
That's nice. I mean, Randy has to deal with
all the weather inside. All of it, yeah.
Just sometimes the air conditioner's a little too cold.
How do you prepare for days that are extremely hot?
Oh, so I remember man, like again, I think this is Julie Max
really like stressed this on us. So I feel like it became a part
of me too is like I we didn't play with the heat.
So if it was mildly warm. I was probably bringing ice
towels just in case. Good ice towels are a must.
Ice towels are the saving grace of heat.
And I I'd push them like if, like obviously they're there for
the emergency part, but I would push them like when if an
athlete got subbed out, I would, if it was a hot day, I'd offer
the ice towel. I don't offer, I just put it on
them. Yeah, yeah, sometimes I would,
but like sometimes they don't want like they didn't really
like they're OK ish. You know, I'm dealing with
football mostly. Yeah, that's, that's different.
But yeah, for like women's soccer, like I'd be right there
if they wanted it. I'd, I'd hand it to them.
They can throw it on. So right when they got subbed
out at halftime, Oh yeah, man, I had, I had them all out.
Hey, boom, boom, boom, boom. I was trying to get ahead of it
and try to make sure like we're preventing that kind of the that
heat stuff from popping up, especially with knowing that
like on my team, I had a lot of ladies from like Denmark and
Norway and Sweden, areas that are not normally getting as hot
as Southern California can get. So those ones for sure, like I
had iced tiles, boom, right there and then.
It was also pushing a lot of hydration as well.
So I like to think it worked 'cause we never really had a lot
of heat issues on my teams, just 'cause like I said, I was like
pushing that aggressively. Yeah, a lot of people said
hydration. I think that was the top answer.
Hydration, not just your athletes but also yourself.
That's important. You can, I can tell you I've
had. I can't even actually probably
count for you. How many students have told me
at a later time because they didn't want to tell me at the
time that they went home and were like, like heat exhaustion
or like, something to do with overly heated.
Like, excuse me, Why are we not drinking water when we're giving
water to other people? Yeah.
So make sure you hydrate, including yourself.
The hydration also starts before the day of.
Yes, it's a it. It's a process you build into
that. Erica A says for hydration after
every other practice I remind the kids what hydration should
look like and I always like to throw in tips and tricks with
food they can aid in hydration. I also want to start making a
chart for all sports have posted in their locker rooms as well.
Nice. I like that food idea because
you like, sometimes it's like boring to just like drink water
or like water and electrolytes or like something but like
watermelon, like a lot of like cucumbers or fruits or like
other like. Celery.
Sure, if you like that. I do.
Ice towels that that's a good not to drink.
I'm going back to OH. Have you ever had someone drink
out of the ice towel cooler? No.
So like there's times like, hey, someone doesn't label it and
like kids don't know and they just come up and drink it.
I'm like nice towel, water. No, we put it in a small cooler
and we put on the floor. You'd be surprised how many of
my kids have tried to drink that even though it's on the floor.
Tape the spigot to note to self. Tape spigot.
That's why I try to get on top of it to write it ahead of time,
but sometimes. Even if you write it, I don't
think people. Oh yeah, they still sometimes
don't pay attention. They just see cooler.
There's got to be water in there.
So now I think I talked about this probably in the heat
episode, but I do ice towels down the arms after more and
more information's coming out about if you put not in a heat
emergency, but preventatively, just to be clear, ice towel on
the neck or like cooling the neck tells your body that you're
cooler than you actually are 'cause you're taking the the
blood up to your brain is cooling down like it slows your
natural cooling down. 'Cause your body's like, oh,
I'm. Good.
I'm actually cooler than I am. So it doesn't actually have your
body aiding at that. So I found really good success
with like that arm cooling and you can look at arm cooling.
They do it a lot in like military or they're they'll do
like ice immersion of just their arms.
Oh, and a a a professional women's basketball team, too.
Oh, and they. Oh yeah, tell them about the
things. Yeah, there's this product, I
think it's like Ava cooling system, I think it's called.
Basically it's like a black tube.
You basically put ice water in it, right?
And they like you seal it up. And so now it makes the tube
cold and they were actually implementing it into their their
policies of heat management just along the spectrum of things to
do is actually using that. So when they would come off on
the bench, you know, you can't really do an ice towel in in, in
basketball and it's going to create a lot of problems, right?
But they can come off the bench, hold that right.
And it'll help kind of cool their core temperature down and
cool their body. So now we're kind of increasing
performance and stuff like that. Yeah.
So it was, it's a really cool system.
Like I say system because that's what it's called and makes it
sound like probably like fancier than it is.
It's loaded just a metal tube. They just throw water, ice,
water in like it. It is really cool.
I want one. I want 2.
Another thing you could do in the heat is you could just push
practice before or after, like in the morning or late.
Like we'll do that in the summer that when we we make everything
go in the morning or we make everything go at night.
For sure. I mean that is that is that is
nice and it is a good thing to do.
But you know what also still kind of is a bummer is those
times it's still kind of warm, but also like you've been in the
heat all day ish, possibly like just throughout your day.
So you still have to still be cognizant of.
Yeah, it doesn't eliminate it. Yeah, exactly.
Like it does help, but it's like we've had to be like in the heat
all day, whether you're going in and out, whatever.
So you're still, you still have the effects.
So you still like for the athletes, they still have to
remember to hydrate. Right now, this might be a new
one. Have you ever had to deal with
tornado weather at work? No, see, that's what that's what
I'm saying. Like I know some colleagues when
they went to like the Midwest for track regionals, they
actually have had to deal with like tornado warnings, but I
never was on those trips. 34% of people said yes, 66% said no.
That's interesting. So like 1/3 I because neither of
us have ever dealt with tornadoes, obviously we're
relying on you guys for this one, but I did do a little bit
of research Google search. This is what I understand
there's a tornado watch and a tornado warning tornadoes
tornado watch. They're different tornado
watches. Tornadoes are likely to occur in
the watch area, so be ready to take shelter, but just kind of
keep an eye on things. But tornado warning is like,
man, let's go. Like you can see the tornado or
it's like someone knows it's there and you need to take
shelter. And so I also looked at what
some shelter areas are because if I were in a tornado, I do not
know what is a good shelter. They said a basement obviously
is a good like any underground area is the best protection.
But if you don't have that, you can like any anywhere like
inside of a building on the lowest floor possible.
That's like the furthest away from the outside walls, doors,
windows. So you're trying to say in the
center of the room and then try to avoid like really big like
gymnasiums or cafeterias or auditoriums or something that
have like a flat wide roof cause those can just be like pulled
off. So for my quick Google search,
that's what I got. Nice, thanks Google you.
Wanna hear some stories on that? Yeah, let's do it.
I've actually had one when I was in middle school.
We had a tornado warning. What?
Yeah, we all had to. We all had to go in the locker
room. I don't like, I literally do not
understand because what I don't think it's like is, is it even
impossible like in here? I mean, theoretically it's
possible, but it's like it's pretty unlikely.
Like they literally stuck us all in the locker room and we all
just were like, OK, we don't know what to do.
What the heck? Yeah, I do not remember it being
like that real out here. Well, you also lived an hour
away from where I was. That's fair.
Yeah, but I still feel like that would have been like news.
I know it was. I mean, it didn't touchdown,
yeah. But still.
Yes. Anytime tornado in Southern
California. I know we were all like, excuse
me, what is going on? OK, you want to read the next
one? Yes, Courtney G says the funnel
cloud was forming next to the school, but didn't touchdown
until it passed the school. Thank goodness.
We were fortunate that we didn't lose power, but the school was
shaking really good. It came fast because it got dark
real fast. We knew it was time to go in.
We moved everyone to the locker room and hunkered down.
We watched for the warnings to end and resumed practice.
Probably 45 minutes after the whole thing.
The sun was out like nothing happened.
This is going to be crazy. That's crazy.
Yeah, that's crazy. Like I just don't really
understand that. Like it just all of a sudden and
then gone. Yeah, because that's like
weather. That's like real weather.
Yes, yeah. When I remember in middle
school, like it was really dark. Like it got really dark, but we
obviously went inside. So we weren't like watching it
and we didn't have windows in this in the locker room.
That's interesting. Yeah, now I'm gonna like look up
and see. Tornado.
Like around that time, yeah. That's interesting.
Ariel H says I work for a baseball team.
We were in Chicago playing and all of a sudden the sky went
pitch black. Tornado sirens went off for 10
minutes. All the fans were told to go to
the parking garage and the teams back to the locker room slash
clubhouse. We saw the tornado forming above
the field and I booked it to the clubhouse.
The game was delayed. We end up staying in hotel
during the tornado and resumed the next morning to finish off
the game. Got some crazy cool pics of the
field and the sky from it though.
That's. Cool.
Isn't that cool? Yeah.
That's dope. So something that we have had to
deal with. Have you ever had to deal with
an earthquake at work? Only 11% of people said yes.
I was, I I don't, I don't think so.
I mean, maybe I never felt it. And I think there was, might
have been sometimes like, oh, did you feel the earthquake?
Like no. I have.
I've had a, I've had some. Here's the thing.
When you're actually this, this, I used to work an hour away from
Randy and there was an earthquake.
And I texted him like, hey, did you feel an earthquake?
And he was like, no. And then that's when, like, it
made me really grumpy. I was like, that's how far I am
away from you. That's.
Funny, honestly, the I feel like for people who've never dealt
with this, I feel like everyone you're supposed to like drop,
take cover, like get under a table or like and hold on to it.
Cover your neck, cover your head, get under something like
sturdy that's like not gonna collapse, like stay away from
the windows, anything. They can fall, right?
If you're outside just literally like stay away from anything.
They could fall like trees, yeah, or buildings.
But I feel like in real life earthquake happens and everyone
just like look and stares at each other.
Like do you know what I'm talking about the.
Earthquake, Yeah. And then everyone just says, is
that an earthquake? Is this an earthquake?
And then the rest of the day you just hear, did you feel an
earthquake? Did you feel an earthquake?
Because that's like, again, I think it's a California thing.
Yeah. You've been through enough of
them that you're just like, you feel and you're like, is that an
earthquake? Because most of most of the time
it's that, right? You start to feel that shake and
you're like, is that an earthquake?
Right when I was in, I think it was around middle school, high
school, I used to deal with a ton of Vertigo and then all the
time, like I'd think there was earthquakes all the time.
So like I'd always like look, that's how I know now.
Like I'll look at like I'll look at like the blinds or like the,
the ceiling fan or something to like see if it's moving or if
like it's just me. Oh, it's just me.
OK, you know what's funny is I'd do that.
Uh huh. If I really think it's, I'm
gonna look at something, see like.
Is this something? Something.
And then you keep staring at. You're like.
Is it actually moving? Yeah, I can't tell if it's
shaking now, right? How about have you had to deal
with a flood? No.
I mean, I mean obviously like flooded fields, but not like OK,
not like like an actual like kind of flood coming in or like
taking like damaging part of like our facility or anything
like that. We did.
At the place where I had the weather interview.
We had a flood. It was after I forgot.
About that. Crazy, A crazy thunderstorm and
it actually it our fields. It ruined a lot of our fields.
And then the gym actually started like the floor started
like what is this called? Wait, like WAVY bubbling, like
waving, I don't know. So then they had to put, get
these like like massive fans and dry it out for, I want to say it
was a couple weeks and I think they had to repair some of it.
Yeah, it was bad. And then we actually, we didn't,
I didn't even think about this. But then someone was telling us,
hey, you might want to check your storage cause 'cause the
way that our, our school was, it was different.
It wasn't flat. Definitely was not flat.
No, not at all. You're in like.
The base of a mountain. Yeah, and even like getting
into, I think that's why we had so much weather, even like
getting into the parking lot, like a, a bus couldn't get into
the parking lot And actually a bus got stuck getting into the
parking lot because like it, it's just so steep and it's
short steep. And like just like that's how
the school is like it, there's just a lot like it's not flat.
And so our athletic training room was a little bit elevated,
but our storage was knot. It was like flat and it was like
in a dip area at the bottom of the gym, which also got flooded.
So we went into our, we found out that our storage was
flooded. And then we went to, we went to
go see it and literally the, and we had some like tape on the
floor and like everything on the floor, 'cause we had like tape
stacked, right. It was the bottom, the bottom 2,
I want to say, of, of each stack of tape completely waterlogged.
Dang, yeah. And then, and I have pictures, I
posted them, but we end up taking out everything so the
floor could dry. And then we end up taking out
the, I think the bottom row of tape we couldn't salvage, but
the second row of tape we just took out and we just laid out to
dry. That's good.
And I think it managed to be OK. I would say that how was the
quality of that? I we just used it very quickly
because we didn't want it to mold for sure.
And we put it in front of fans. Nice.
That's not evidence based. That is, it's purely anecdotal.
It's the best you got. Yeah, it was crazy.
I was like, I never thought I would deal with a flood.
Yeah, that's true. 26% of people said yes, they have had to deal
with the flood, which is more than earthquakes but less than
tornadoes. If you're keeping score at.
Home Katie L says When Hurricane Matthew hit, it completely
flooded our college's practice field and actually totaled the
entire women's lacrosse team and staff's cars that were parked
there while they were travelling.
It also picked up one of those ready ice boxes and moved it
like 25 yards away. Crazy.
Luckily the water drained within a day and we practice on the
football turf field practice field for a while and until it
dried out, but the parking lot was full of totaled vehicles for
weeks while insurance claims and stuff were worked out.
Dang, we did know it was coming but we were fairly inland.
The predictions were basically saying we would be fine until it
changed course the day before and all of a sudden it was like
oh shit, this isn't going to be good but once lacrosse was
already on the road. Dang that sucks.
Hey I can I can honestly say I have had to deal with hurricane
at work. Oh yeah, yeah, and you had to go
to work. I had to go to work.
Yeah, the next day. A lot of schools.
So we just had a hurricane, a hurricane, a quote UN quote
hurricane. They called it a hurricane, but
then we had an earthquake in the middle of it.
So then it was Hurricane. Only Southern California can you
have a an earthquake paired with a hurricane.
Yeah, I don't know actually what constituted it to be a
hurricane, but they cancelled a lot of our.
When I think it's the wind speeds.
It didn't seem to like, yeah, it was.
It didn't seem like what you guys deal with.
I think it, it was like literally on the threshold of
when I think when it got to us, it was technically a category
one or like right before it got to us, it was Category 1.
And I think when we felt most of it was probably closer to a
tropical storm. Yeah, so they cancelled a bunch
of work, but Randy still had to go to work.
Oh yeah, I had to go to work the next day even though the campus
was closed. That's the part that gets me.
No, but. Sports.
Are not. But yeah, so I had to, I I had
to brave the dangerous conditions.
Hey, I did go out outside. You did.
Arrow and I were out. Our dog didn't really like it,
no. She didn't.
Yeah, I already give this hurricane at work 21%.
Yes, 21% of people have had to deal with the hurricane at work.
I'm part of 21. You are.
Technically, there's a little
asterisk. Big one, it's a big one.
So how do you prepare Rebecca Arsa's takedown?
All the equipment that wasn't dug into the ground.
Yeah, I can see. That this actually happened to
the first year I was at one of my jobs.
We couldn't play on our baseball field because wind took down our
Nets. Dang.
And then they couldn't get them back up because they couldn't do
it under insurance because the field was an ADA compliant.
So then they had to do that in order to do an insurance claim.
So, yeah, so now like they have like removable Nets and the same
place that had deal with all the weather.
This is what I'm talking about. Yeah.
We had a lot of weather out there.
And because it was like right at the base of mountain, we had so
much lightning. Yeah, true.
I feel like not to go back to lightning, but I feel like we
we've been dealing more with lightning more and more.
It feels like, really I feel like that.
I feel like I haven't had to deal with lightning in like I
feel like I I usually have to deal with deal with more
lightning in the spring than I am than I did this spring.
Hmm. Interesting.
OK, nice. But you and I also work in
different areas. Yeah, true.
And you work indoors. What are you talking about?
Why are you dealing? In general, over the past few
years, yes, I don't lightnings, Hey, no, I do have to consider
it with the pool. Oh, I guess you're right.
Even though it's an indoor pool, you still have to get out of the
pool. Yeah, you're right.
So back to hurricanes. You want to read this one?
Next one. Yes, Leah P says.
I'm from Florida and now live in Texas.
Fortunately the schools are very conservative when it comes to
hurricanes and you can see them coming which is helpful.
So school practices and games are all cancelled in a timely
manner and they don't start back up again until fields etcetera
are safe. In the past if fields still
weren't ready they would move practices to the gym.
Games would be rescheduled to whenever there was time which
always caused a little coverage chaos lol.
When Houston had the really big floods and schools were damaged,
they spread kids out to other schools and I imagine those kids
were able to join and practice with the teams at the new school
if they wanted to, but I'm not entirely sure.
That's interesting. Can you imagine just being
shipped off to a new school? Yeah, I know that'd.
Be or just getting all these new athletes.
Yeah, yeah, that's weird. Oh, that's weird.
And this the next one from Luke Z.
This season we had two hurricane situations.
The first one we were already playing away so we left a day
early to avoid the storm. The other one this year was
during a home game which need to be moved.
It's just a huge change in plans really fast.
We took a bus both times and there was so much hurricane
traffic it took 9 hours to get somewhere that should have been
4. But the transportation part
wasn't bad, It was the evacuation process that was the
worst. First, there's panic and making
sure that we have everything packed. 10 to 15 people are
running around the athletic training room ensuring all of
our trunks are packed and get loaded on the truck.
What's most stressful I've found is that there are no plans.
We have no idea how long we'll be gone.
We don't know exactly where we're staying slash practicing
or just haven't been told. And it's such a quick turn
around that there's the stress of forgetting something
important. Having solid packing list
developed in the preseason really helped that, but
stressful nonetheless. Then you have like an hour to go
home, pack your bag, get on a bus.
I don't have any pets but I remember the panic it caused
some of the other students with pets of how are we going to find
a place for them in such short? Notes.
Yeah, it's tough, Dang. I know, especially when like,
everyone's dealing with it. Yeah, yeah, everyone's dealing
with the same thing. Mm Hmm.
Damn, that's tough. Yeah, it sounds stressful.
Yeah, I think like, like Luke was saying, it's just that short
notice just kind of hits you, you're OK, We got to get all
this stuff set up and packed and then you got to pack for
yourself and stuff. OK, so the last thing we have is
cold and snow, but honestly we got kind of a good chunk of
them. And I'm wondering maybe we do an
episode just on cold and snow. So if you guys have more cold
and snow stories, send them in. We're going to do that one in
two weeks and then we will kind of wrap it up here.
Do you have any other like weather?
No, just just work in a track meet for 14 hours in the rain.
Oh, how did I not even bring that up?
That was it was a blast. So fun.
I posted pictures of that one actually.
You guys looking for weather stories?
Soaked through my jacket. Yeah, it was 14 hours of rain.
I'm never going to forget that. That was wild.
It literally did not stop raining.
Mind you, we were in the rain the day before for the throwers.
How many people got sick from that?
I have no, I can't remember. I don't think I did.
Maybe I did, I don't know. It was so long.
Ago. I know that was a while ago.
Yeah, it was just like literally just raining.
All day there are breaks, but like it was 14 hours of rain.
Yeah, you're, you're soaked like.
Yeah, it wasn't going to matter no matter what you.
Want even with rain gear? Yeah, it wasn't going to.
Matter. That is something that I suggest
investing in as an athletic trainer.
Rain pants. Yeah, it's a good idea,
especially if you work outdoors. Yeah, because if I have to kneel
to to to an injury and I get a knee that's wet and
uncomfortable while I'm standing on the sideline, no bueno.
That's a good idea. And it's almost the end of
National Athletic Training Month, too.
Oh shoot, you're right. We are.
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