総員、緊急体勢！

CONDITION RED! SEAL SUITS AND DOG BLAST DOORS! ACTION STATIONS ALL HANDS! THIS IS NOT A DRILL, REPEAT, NOT A DRILL! 

From the Annals of Japanese Technology, another page: This is the touchscreen control panel of the specialized computer system installed in the teacher's lounge at Oga Minami, which allows the precision remote monitoring and control of... every one of the dozens of the gas-powered space heaters in the classrooms which serve in place of a central HVAC system. In view of the fact that most of the rest of the building (which has no heaters) is only a little above the freezing point this means that when the system goes down it not only rings fantastically space-y alarms (pity the poor secretarial staff, whose desk is next to the control panel) , flashes room-by-room EQUIP. ABNRML. OP. CND. warnings (the orange squares on the subsystem status panel at top) and a huge CONDITION RED indicator (1) on the master alarm annunciator, but things get real cold, real fast. In the teacher's room, all hands rushed to battle stations: Winter coats and gloves were donned in one bold rush, and the Vice-Principal took to the PA to cancel clubs, caution those feeling under the weather to call their parents for immediate rescue, and ask those remaining to seek shelter in the main meeting room, which was redundantly heated. Before long, outriders from the BoE had arrived in the person of Ms. Furuyama, with the men of the heating company galloping close behind. When the system was finally rebooted (presumably they switched SCE to AUX) and the heat came back on normally it almost felt like an anticlimax...






(1) In even more amusing Japanese fashion this is indicated by writing the word コンディション／"kondishon" in katakana, and overlaying it on a red square to indicate the master warning condition. I hope it's only the Air Force they wash you out of if you're colorblind, not teaching school!