It snowed A LOT last night, and I woke up to a winter wonderland this morning. Of course, with snow drifts up to my knees, walking in that winter wonderland was not a pleasant proposition. My roomates and I checked the WSU website and our email accounts, hoping that classes would be cancelled. Nothing. Then, right as I was about to leave for my 9AM class, Matt found a message that said WSU would be closing at 10. What?? Did that mean I still had to go to school? I don't understand how it could be more treacherous to venture onto campus after 10AM than before. Confused, I trudged off to my class.
Once I arrived at Sloan, no one knew what was going on. The only certain thing was that most people had chosen to stay home. When I arrived at my classroom, there were only two other students there. We all took out our laptops to find out what was going on, but myWSU had crashed due to too much traffic. Eventually we concluded that classes were in fact canceled.
I think it's interesting that everyone was so confused this morning. With the amount of snow we got, closing down the campus seems like a no-brainer. During the summer, WSU installed a very expensive campus-wide emergency alert system. It was designed for situations exactly like this, serving information to students via phone calls, emails, text messages, and loudspeakers during confusing and potentially dangerous times. Today, in my opinion, the system flat out failed. It was unable to coordinate a timely response to a predicted winter storm, so how effective would it be in an unexpected situation like a terrorist attack? The administration needs to find out what went wrong and fix it before next time.
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