The Evacuation Warning

This is out of order chronologicaly in my life but it is what we saw on the scoreboard at the Grizzlies game last week and I thought it was a bomb scare so I climbed over the seat and bolted out of the FedExForum as fast as I could and Dean could hardly keep up w/me on the way out the door! The Grizz were playing horribly so we were glad to leave and by the time we got home, they'd restarted the game and the Grizz came back and won!

It was our fourth stadium or arena evacuatioon. One time there was a tornado in the Starkville area and we had to leave the outside of the stadium there and we ended up losing a homecoming game to Troy State.

Another beautiful afternoon in Memphis, a fire alarm went off in the Arena before the game had started so we evacuated and wound up on Beale St. at the late, great Pat O'Briens while they cleared the building for a small fire at a concession stand.

The most dramatic evacuation came in ATL at the SEC basketball tournament when a tornado hit the Georgia Dome and the scoreboard starting bouncing around. Dean saw the hole in the cloth ceiling and determined it was a tornado and we bolted that place practically running over people. The glass and debris were so bad outside the Dome that we were stuck inside the building for two hours and finally the game was resumed and we won. It is always good to win. The walk back to our hotel over broken glass and power lines was an event in itself. I had on my really good black shoes and was very worried about them and Dean calmly took photos of the destruction.