Storm Safety Tips

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**Storm Safety Tips** is the second episode of Gemini Home Entertainment. It is an instructional video on how to prepare for storms and what to do during and after one.

## Transcript

"Gemini Home Entertainment"

"Storm Safety Tips (Brought to you by Harbinge Technologies)"

"Storms can be violent and dangerous. In this cassette, you will learn how to protect you and your family when a severe storm hits your home."

"Part 1: Prepare in advance"

"You do not want to get caught in a storm unprepared. To prepare your home for a storm, follow these steps."

"Step 1: Reinforce your home"

"This may involve improving structural support, replacing roof shingles, or fixing any possible leaks."

"Step 2: Install an early warning system"

"This will allow you to know if it is a storm or other danger approaching your home. (Recommended: Albedo Alarm from Harbinge Technologies)"

"Step 3: Create a storm bunker"

"Make sure the bunker matches the following measurements."

"10 ft. , 18 ft."

"Create concrete foundation (at least 8 inches thick). (8 in.)"

"In the centre of your bunker, install a large aluminum hemisphere. (4-5 ft.)"

"Place shortwave radio next to hemisphere. (Recommended: Timbre Radio from Harbinge Technologies)"

" (Within 4-5 ft.) "

"**ONLY TURN ON RADIO IN EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY**"

"Part 2: What to do during a storm"

"In the event a storm hits your home, it is important to follow these steps."

"Step 1: Quietly take your family to your bunker."

"Your home does not belong to you now."

"Step 2: Turn on shortwave radio."

"Ignore all sound produced by the radio. These are auditory hallucinations."

"Step 3: Remain Calm."

"Your tears are filled with salt."

"Part 3: After a storm"

"If you believe the storm has passed, carefully leave your bunker and survey for damages."

"If your house has been severely damaged, check for movement inside."

"Do you hear the chime? You are safe. The storm has passed over."

"Look to the field. Do you see Lights? Return to your bunker."

"Listen"

"Under your feet"

"Crawling through the floor"

"Congratulations, you are now well-equipped to defend you and your family against storms!"

"Storm Safety Tips (Made by Remy Abode)"

"Gemini Home Entertainment"

## Premise

The tape starts out as normal instructional video, with useful advice for keeping yourself safe during a storm, along with recommendations for the Harbinge Technologies products "Albedo Alarm" and "Timbre Radio".

However, as it progresses, the tape then gives an odd instruction to create a storm bunker with exact measurements as shown on screen (with said measurements being 10 feet tall and 18 feet wide), with said storm bunker encasing a 4-5 feet wide aluminum hemisphere and a shortwave radio, though later contradicting the need for a radio as the video tells the audience to ignore all sounds produced by it, describing them as auditory hallucinations. The tape glitches out after the instruction that the radio should only be turned on in the event of an emergency.

Part 2 begins, entitled "What to do during a storm". The instructions first tell the audience that in the event of a storm, they should quietly take the residents of their house to their aforementioned storm bunker, described in Part 1. The tape remarks that "Your home does not belong to you now", following the first instruction, quickly moving on to the second, which is to turn on the shortwave radio, which, as previously mentioned, should be ignored. The final step tells the audience to remain calm, as their "tears are filled with salt", an implication that Woodcrawlers, the assumed antagonist of the episode, are attracted to it.

Part 3, titled "After a storm" begins unceremoniously right after, telling the audience to carefully leave their bunker to survey potential damage to their home if they believe the storm has passed, and if there is significant damage, to check for movement. Something described as "the chime" is described, with the tape telling the viewer that if they hear it, the storm has passed. It then instructs us to look to the field. If the viewer sees what the tape described as "lights", they are to seek shelter in their bunker once again. The tape glitches out once again and a shot of a field is shown, remaining relatively normal until the aforementioned "lights" begin appearing rapidly, with the video cutting out after they begin doing so.

The tape resumes, with a darker background then before. It continues to remark cryptic phrases such as "Under your feet" and "Crawling through the floor", possibly referring to Woodcrawlers, or an entirely new entity as a whole. A still image is shown of a siren, with bells being heard in the distance. This is all quickly reverted, when the tape reverts to a state of normalcy, congratulating the viewer for being well equipped to defend them and their family from storms. The credits are shown and the video ends.

## Trivia

* This episode has the first mention of Harbinge Technologies.
* As seen in Lethal Omen, the aluminum sphere deters Woodcrawlers from entering the shelter.
* Woodcrawlers are presumably attracted to salt, judging by one of the lines in Step 3.
* Taking into account the fact that Woodcrawlers group together frequently, you could replace the word "storm" in the video with "swarm(referring to a swarm of Woodcrawlers)" and the abnormal setup for a bunker makes more sense.
* The siren shown at the end of the video is a Whelen WS-3000, a rotational electronic siren that was produced by Whelen Engineering from 1981 to 1991.
	+ Based on that fact, it can be inferred that Storm Safety Tips may take place within that timeframe.

## Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qez0S2omPFE