Last Sunday we had a tornado warning at work and we were required to get all the patients out into the hall, turn off the lights, oxygen and pull down the blinds in each room. Our poor sick patients sat in the halls for an hour and a half looking at each other, each one probably wondering what the other was "in for"! The pictures above were taken by one of our nurses from his home. There were several tornados in different towns. These were only miles from the hospital. The sky was dark and it was a little spooky. Some of the tornadoes touched down and damaged houses.
So since I've been here in Colorado over the past three years time, I've been stuck at the hospital twice overnight for blizzards, been in hospital lock downs for tornados and our hospital had a lockdown for a questionable white substance found on the light rail.
The blizzard shut down the highway from Denver to New Mexico. We were legally obliged to stay at the hospital because of the highway shut down, no one could come to work and we couldn't leave.
Oh yeah, and I've also seen bears and there's been a mountain lion warning up in the hills of Perry Park just down the street from us here.
Quite the place our Colorado!!!!
Oh, just a little addendum, when I was working at LDS hospital, can't remember what year, we had a tornado up on the mountain. I was in the endoscopy unit and getting ready to discharge my patient when her husband came in and announced there had been a tornado. We were like, "nuh uh, tornadoes don't happen in Utah, and they definitely don't happen in the mountains". Sure enough, we walked down to the revolving doors and they had been completely pushed inward, leaving them totally unusable. Later in the day a bunch of us went outside to scope out the neighborhood and couldn't believe what we saw. Houses had lost their shingles, trees had been uprooted or knocked over onto houses. Garbage was all over. It was a mess! We were astonished! I still have the little tornado pin on my IHC jacket!!!
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