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"Severe weather this week could be a threat to thousands of kids across Wisconsin attending their first week of summer camp.VIDEO: Summer camps begin with chance of severe weatherSevere weather drills are underway for kids at Camp Whitcomb Mason, north of Hartland.Nine-year-old Will Swanson and his fellow campers learned Monday to head to the lodge basement to be safe.\"We line up by the stairs and then we walk down patiently, and then we go into the shower area,\" Will Swanson said.Will Swanson's mother remembers the helplessness of having a daughter at camp when a tornado threatened.\"The girls were away, and it was scary as a parent being home and not knowing what the situation was. But they had a plan,\" Patty Swanson said.The camp's executive director, Sarah Rusch, said staff are trained to keep more than 5,000 children safe from severe weather this summer.\"If you're in the lake, you're in the swimming pool, if you're on the high ropes course, those staff members need to be trained at a high level to recognize when severe weather is coming and if that could be harmful,\" Patty Swanson said.More than 1,000 people will call Camp Osrui home on Oconomowoc's Lac la Belle this summer. They also have a storm emergency plan in place.Handheld radios and weather radios are used to communicate weather emergencies and storm shelters are predetermined.\"And we are asked by parents. And I tell them exactly what we do in the case of bad weather or any other emergency that might happen,\" Osrui Associate Director Susan Alexander said.They also use the 12 News weather app, watch the radar and listen to weather advisories."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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