Our office recently held an 'invacuation' exercise. I'd not come across the word before but its meaning was not hard to guess. Essentially, whereas an evacuation has us leaving the building, during an invacuation we are supposed to gather at a point within the building, in our case in the underground car park. It's used when evacuation wouldn't be appropriate, for instance during a bomb scare nearby. I found this blog post from 2008 about it, and the word appears in several online dictionaries.
Have you come across the word or even taken part in a similar exercise? What do you think of the word?
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
I'm sure Kalleh will testify to the accuracy of my remark since she is in the medical profession. An "evacuatioh" is an enema, so an "invacuation" would be a sign of constipation.
After thinking this over, when you posted that "typo" that I made I couldn't see the typo you referred to since the font that appears on my screen is sans serif and hard for me to see. I didn't realize it at the time but for some reason my spell checker didn't flag that word as incorrect. I tried typing it again, spelling it wrong, and for some reason it still won't mark it as misspelled, even though the spell checker works for other words.
Originally posted by Proofreader: After thinking this over, when you posted that "typo" that I made I couldn't see the typo you referred to since the font that appears on my screen is sans serif and hard for me to see. I didn't realize it at the time but for some reason my spell checker didn't flag that word as incorrect. I tried typing it again, spelling it wrong, and for some reason it still won't mark it as misspelled, even though the spell checker works for other words.
Interesting. What browser are you using? My (British English) spullchucker in Chrome marks it quite clearly.
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
We have all these new Emergency Responses, but this isn't one, arnie. We have a "Lockdown," which means to hide under a desk or in a closet or somewhere protected, in case of an active shooter. Another is "Shelter in Place." This is for severe storms, demonstrations that have escalated to violence, extreme life-threatening temperatures (???), explosives or chemical contaminants. Then there is "Fire Emergency," which of course includes fires, but also bomb threats, hostages, electrical outages, falling glass, medical emergencies, storms, telephone outages, odors (???).
Perhaps, although the idea is that everyone leaves their desk and assembles in one place. We used the underground car park, which can hold everyone who works in the building. The guy who wrote the blog post I linked to wasn't perhaps to lucky: they had to stand around in the stair wells - presumably their building didn't have anywhere suitable for everyone to come together.
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Interesting, I just skimmed the 13 pages again, and under "Sheltering in Place" it says, "This is not the same as going to an underground shelter," which yours seems to be. Indeed, none of the safety instructions mention an underground shelter.This message has been edited. Last edited by: Kalleh,
I don't think the fact that it's underground has any bearing on the matter. I gather that any suitably-sized area would be OK. Our building used to be a large church which was bombed during the war. The façade is still standing and makes an imposing entrance. The old church crypt is now mostly a car park.
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
