Sean C. Morgan
Sweet Home City Manager Ray Towry and then-Linn County Undersheriff Jim Yon were busy Tuesday evening attending the Sweet Home High School senior awards ceremony when a blanket “severe threat alert” hit their cell phones.
It wasn’t just them – the same message popped up on cell phone screens throughout the county.
It contained the cryptic message: “Prepare for action.”
Neither Towry nor Yon knew anything more about it than anyone else.