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Approximate reconstructionFMU Athletics — FMU set to close on Tue, Oct. 8 at 12 noon due to Hurricane Milton (reconstructed from press coverage and athletic-page excerpt)599 chars
Dear FMU Lions Family, In anticipation of Hurricane Milton, Florida Memorial University will close on Tuesday, October 8 at 12 noon. All operations and classes, including online courses, are suspended as of Noon, Tuesday, October 8 through Thursday, October 10. Normal operations will resume 8:30 a.m. Friday, October 11. Resident students who cannot leave campus should contact Residential Life immediately for shelter-in-place instructions. Faculty and staff should secure offices and laboratories before departure. Continue to monitor your FMU email and the FMU social media channels for updates.
This text has been reconstructed from news coverage and may not reflect the exact original wording.
Issued Monday evening, October 7, 2024 EDT, roughly 24 hours before the noon Tuesday closure. The timing mirrors most South Florida private institutions for Milton, which gave Miami-Dade and Broward communities about a day of advance notice before tornado-band conditions arrived
The 12:00-noon closure (rather than end-of-business) reflects the National Weather Service Miami tornado-watch timeline that day; outer rain bands began producing isolated tornadoes across the south Florida peninsula by early Wednesday morning, making afternoon Tuesday road conditions risky
FMU is Florida's only HBCU south of Daytona Beach. The 'Lions Family' salutation is consistent with HBCU institutional voice — emergency communications at Spelman, Howard, FAMU, and Edward Waters use similar familial address
Explicit inclusion of online courses in the suspension is unusual; most institutions allow online sections to continue. FMU's choice acknowledges that South Florida-based remote students were equally exposed to power and connectivity loss