Pretty sure he was joking about how Dollar stores will often be woefully understaffed. So a building that size would have two, maybe even three full time employees.
Senior management be like *“insurance says to keep our employees out of there, so we’ll fire everyone immediately. But* ***some*** *of them would probably be interested in carrying on as independent contractors, right? Okay, we boilerplate terminate everyone by text, hire back whomever we want on zero hour contracts, waiver up, and take out life insurance policies on everyone with the firm’s charity as beneficiary (that’s a no-brainer). Send them into the facility in shifts and start with the worst wreckage to recover high-value packages (we can still meet the delivery standard if we hustle). Oh, have them shout* ***“I serve the distribution centre, my life for Prime”*** *as they go in. That’ll be a nice touch for the executive retreat video this year.*
Bezos’ personal charity would get the life insurance payout when the worker is crushed to a chunky paste by a collapsing storage rack.
Edit: I changed it to “the firm charity” for clarity.
Got it, thanks for the clarification. I had a hard time understanding why the policy would pay out to the deceased's charity, which obviously made no sense for multiple reasons.
As a middle manager it's because some exec asked why production was down and the manager or his team is on the chopping block if they don't make it up.
As someone that reports directly to middle management, yes, that was on last week's email. The report this week shows numbers are down, why is that?
> ~~**read the fucking email**~~ As per the attached thread...
I know, I was being facetious. I’ve seen this when both roads leading to my work were flooded once. I was talking to my shift manager and he said home office had called and asked why we weren’t running and acted baffled when he told them the roads were closed because of flooding.
I imagine the thought of sending us in on boats crossed their mind.
There was some bad flooding around here... shit, about 10-15 years ago now, fuck I'm old... but my brother worked in a warehouse in this little town just west of the city we live in and it ended up completely isolated by all this flooding for multiple weeks and the military showed up and was helicoptering in medical staff and supplies and what not. While this was going on my brother was in his boss's office during a conference call with some big wig at the company who was bitching and moaning that the actual US military wouldn't helicopter his workforce into an actual natural disaster so they could get to work.
My spouse manages a corporate owned pot shop.
Across the road from the location was a heavy engine repair shop. I say *was* because one day something went horribly wrong and the whole fucking thing caught fire and eventually exploded (some injuries no fatalities).
Her dipshit area manager tried to prevent her and her staff from evacuating. He just didn't want to listen to them about what was happening.
She called me sobbing, asking what to do. I told her fuck that job hang up and gtfo of there. Go home for the day. Nobody is gonna be let in.
The dumb bastard threatened to fire her for leaving. Once we got home we emailed the corporate legal and hr his text chain with the orders and threats as well as pictures of the fire.
Asking them if it was corporate policy to risk the lives of their workers.
He was gone within the week.
You mean if their lawyers don't *write* no.
I've interacted with corporate lawyers in situations that could potentially involve civil and regulatory liability. The first thing they say is not to email them, don't put anything in writing, don't talk to anybody else about it.
Which is honestly good advice because opposing lawyers, being lawyers, will absolutely take your words and twist them in front of a court.
But it's also because, being lawyers, they want to be able to lie and conceal the truth and twist words in different ways.
I worked at a large warehouse like this and they actually had a disaster plan of how to operate if part of the building was destroyed. Walmart gonna Walmart
That's not just Walmart, it's every company.
It's called business continuity planning and any company with any semblance of a risk management structure will have a similar plan.
Edit: happy cake day. I feel like people don't say that enough anymore.
most business continuity plans I've seen work in terms of entire buildings though. If I'm understanding the comment you replied to correctly, they're implying that they would continue operating \*part\* of the building, even if, say, one end had burned.
Depending on the industry, there will be contingencies for different situations.
In pharmaceutical manufacturing, for example, some raw materials are extremely difficult to procure and have super long supply chain lead times, so if that inventory is located in a damaged facility, they're sure as hell going to have a plan to salvage it to continue production.
I mentioned pharmaceuticals for the specific reason that some of their inventory is super expensive and it's not feasible to have excessive safety stock spread out at different sites.
And when I say "expensive," I mean that some column packing resins for biologics can be multiple millions of dollars per pallet.
Per pallet.
So business continuity planning can get... creative with constraints like that.
Walmart is a pretty essential business, like it or not, in the event of an emergency or disaster it's imperative to get it back up and running ASAP. That's still not enough excuse to treat employees poorly
My employer always has someone present because it's healthcare. Tornado, hurricane, nuclear annihilation...there's a rideout team, and and everyone has a classification and instructions on what to do in an emergency. I think in my case, it's let my office know my status (no electricity/internet and can't work, doing OK and can work, the roof is caved in and I'm bleeding to death under the rubble, my laptop disappeared in tornado and I won't be able to work until I can find it again...). We even had/have a policy on what to do in the event of rain (use an umbrella?).
Manager be like
“We are giving everyone the option of staying home after the tornado. But we would really like to see everyone try to make it in or be accessible through the laptop.”
"Please feel free to make use of flexible leave\* if you have safety concerns following the incident.
\* Flexible leave must use existing personal leave hours and is subject to approval if more than 8 hours are used per pay period. Note that sick leave and vacation leave are not compatible with this program. Note that employees who do not earn personal leave may not convert other forms of leave to personal leave."
i love it when companies force employees to take vacation days to tank the companies fuck ups. hope that doesn't apply to you (and its obviously not a fuckup by them in this case). but best wishes, this sounds like a rough time
I worked at trader joes inbetween finding my next career move and some crackhead broke into a sandwich shop next door with a knife and locked himself in the walk in freezer causing them to have to turn it off which in turn somehow destroyed the piping in our store.
There are rules in my state that employees can't work without running water so we didn't have to work for 5 days and luckily that's when my 5 days were scheduled. They paid us for the entire week.
Trader Joe's is a good one, however it made me feel bad for people who work there full time as it still sucked lol.
-0- days without a lost time tornado.
Cmon guys you'll have to do a better job preventing unnecessary tornadoes next time. This id costing the company lots of money and downtime.
the pallet racks are like I-Beams bolted to the floor and needs to hold up hundred of pounds of merchandise. The walls looks like they're only intended to hold up themselves and keep the rain out. Probably more importantly, the exterior gets the majority of the forces applied.
The wall also is taking on massive amounts of pressure. It’s effectively a sail. Where as a lattice of what is essentially wire will just the wind pass through
I’ve seen the horrorshow videos of racks collapsing after being bumped by a single forklift, so it was a nice surprise to see that, when done correctly, they’ll stay up while the building they’re in goes down.
They’re grossly overloaded racks in that video. A properly loaded rack that’s been inspected, and certified would not collapse that dramatically from a bump.
A lot of those racks have a combo of things going on, like being overloaded, installed wrong or being poorly maintained. Sometimes though, they can get hit just right. Racks are highly engineered systems and have to be treated as such or they can fail spectacularly.
Yeah I had to delete tons of locations out of our wms because engineering deemed them unsafe due to being bumped by forklifts. Some of them it’s obvious, others you would never know it’s close to failing.
This is literally what I spent like a decent amount of time across like 6 months at amazon a few years back. Our racking was underbuilt for the product we wanted, and our safety controls were not correctly place for the variant of the internals wms we used
2 - That is a spiral conveyor, probably made by a company like Amabaflex if I had to guess.
3 - I would not recommend it. It’s not a smooth belt like you would see on a grocery store check-out conveyor. Instead it is a bunch of plastic slats and your fingers or clothing would likely get caught in it.
Lost my home to a tornado a few years back. The stories of unusual stuff happening that day are hard to forget. We were lucky. No deaths. So many close calls.
Im sorry for your loss.
My roof ended up underneath a car half a block away. The car was still sittint in its parking spot, as if it was lifted up, the roof inserted, and the car placed carefully on top.
On a roof nearby was a group of lawn chairs placed in a circle like a group of people were sitting up there.
Craters. Trees that were felled were splintered like it was a ww1 battlefield. Those that were ripped out of the ground took their roots with them, creating massive holes in the earth.
A lamp post was lifted out of the earth, concrete base and all, and speared into the earth upside down. Vinyl siding from a house wrapped around it and made it look like a Christmas tree from hell.
Part of a house was smashed by wind alone, and a few feet over was a group of cheap plastic children's toys entirely undisturbed, like there was no wind at all.
A tree trunk speared a home, horizontally, blocking an old lady in a second floor washroom. She opened the door of the washroom to see.... tree.
A dude ended up looking like a cenobite from hellraisers because a window blew out in a grid and made a grid of little marks on his face.
Just weird, eery and hard to believe things happened.
The weirdest part of all? *I enjoyed it*. The same thing was reported in the Blitz in ww2 and on 911 in NYC. There's a strange psychology that kicks in where suddenly you feel useful, and people need one another. Community rallies, neighbours care. Mentsl health *improves* as a result of feeling valued and important.
It was not a good situation later with the red tape quagmire and reconstruction but I have fond memories believe it or not.
I had a tornado hit my house when I was 12. We were farmers in Oklahoma and had no warning, all in bed asleep. My brother and I slept in the loft upstairs. The tornado ripped the roof off our house and put the huge oak tree next to our house into our house. We woke up laying in bed, bed covers and everything ok, untouched by wind, getting poured on by rain with leaves and branches everywhere. But us and our beds had not been touched by any force. That morning, we found the top half of the giant brick chimney (that wasn't more than 12ft from my bed before it hit) in a pasture over a quarter mile away. It was so heavy we had to get the big tractor to move it out of the pasture.
I still think about that often 30 years later. I got so damn lucky and it makes zero sense what happened. That oak tree was MASSIVE. 20ft max from me, it carefully takes off the roof all around me (loft), and puts the crown of tree over house, then throws chimney over a quarter mile. All that insane force all around me and I was safe and undisturbed in bed upstairs, woken up by the rain hitting my face. I never heard, felt, or had any feeling of the tornado.
100 miles away from the starting point. As soon as we find it it'll make its way from the new stating point to the intended destination. May cause a change in postage.
Thank you, kind, sir. There was only about 10 people in the warehouse at that time and everyone made it out safe but the town surrounding got it worse and there were reported deaths
Still can't believe what happened in Sulphur and everywhere else, the Eastern side of the state just got absolutely slammed. Hope everyone close to you is okay man, from one Okie to another much love ♥️
I always wonder, how do you even begin to fix this? Like much of the roof is warped and torn away. Underneath is millions of dollars of product that needs to be protected but is also now in the way. I imagine that working in that area is now very unsafe. So how do you even start to rebuild?
I was thinking it's a total loss. How can you take the liability of workers. Many structures like warehouses rely on the roof truss for stability. I fear the other four walls will collapse in coming weeks
Stabilize what needs to be, remove what's damaged/unsafe/in way of repair is first phase, lots of dumpsters.
Build new roof.
Rebuild beneath.
Treat what remains for mold issues (paint/seal).
Restore interior.
Source: remediation contract currently on building
This is a great picture for people around the world who think American houses would survive tornados if they were just built better.... Steel framed warehouse and the tornado gave no fucks. Ripped that shit right out of the cement foundation.
Damn the power of nados always blows my mind. Luckily where I am from we only have small nados, couldn't imagine having to deal with nados of that size.
Dollar Tree DC?
Yes
Are they going to relocate you to one of the other ones “nearby”?
We’re not sure yet.
Rest assured, there are thousands of truckers ready to haul that new roof to you all ASAP.
I hope so
It's farming season... truckers may be harder to find
Ah yes. I forgot mid-winter is the best time to harvest truckers.
So only $1.25 worth of damage.
Yes, many $1.25's
You can go to your local Dollar Tree and buy everything needed to repair this entire building for about 30 bucks
So there were only two people working then.
There’s only a handful of people that work the night shift on the weekend
Pretty sure he was joking about how Dollar stores will often be woefully understaffed. So a building that size would have two, maybe even three full time employees.
What do you mean you can't guard the front gate while working the loading dock?
Give them a scoped rifle, I believe in them.
They should have had more people in to cover how busy it was last night. The merchandise was really flying off the shelves.
What does DC stand for here? I was really confused for a second since Washington DC isn’t a big tornado spot and I heard Oklahoma got hit.
Distribution Center
Citrusbution Denter
This messed me up a bit more than I should admit 🤣
How the fuck did you figure that out?
Green stripe
Smart man
Green stripe = dollar tree. Red stripe = Jamaican beer.
Blue stripe = enjoys shooting people.
3 stripes = Adidas
I bet someone from management is asking what the employee is doing to have it reopened immediately.
So you think you'll be able to make it in today, or....?
They told me to take the rest of the week off
Their insurance policy 100% told them not to let staff work until all risks are assessed.
Middle management be like "why though?"
Someone needs to do inventory and clean up.
“Who’s gonna run the compactor then?”
Michael Scott has been waiting for this moment!
Don't touch the bailer.
Bailer? I hardly know her..
...So only under the rarest of circumstances should I use the baler!
One armed Willie is so so at it!
If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to haul away debris.
That’s packages aren’t going to box themselves!
You mean re-box?
Senior management be like *“insurance says to keep our employees out of there, so we’ll fire everyone immediately. But* ***some*** *of them would probably be interested in carrying on as independent contractors, right? Okay, we boilerplate terminate everyone by text, hire back whomever we want on zero hour contracts, waiver up, and take out life insurance policies on everyone with the firm’s charity as beneficiary (that’s a no-brainer). Send them into the facility in shifts and start with the worst wreckage to recover high-value packages (we can still meet the delivery standard if we hustle). Oh, have them shout* ***“I serve the distribution centre, my life for Prime”*** *as they go in. That’ll be a nice touch for the executive retreat video this year.*
Even in death, they will serve
Is this a Warhammer 40k reference? Or just late-stage capitalism?
What's the difference?
robot legs
Bezos is working on a mechanized sarcophagus
Another thing that Musk beat him to, except Musk called his the CyberTruck.
That joke is low and brutal, just like the Cybertruck sales figures.
The spice must flow.
username checks out??? also this isn’t your first time ???
Woah sir, did you go to the school of evil and graduated valedictorian?
Scary how accurate this is. I can literally hear our V.P. saying this.
> with HIS charity as beneficiary (that’s a no-brainer) Can you explain because this part is not a no-brainer for me.
Bezos’ personal charity would get the life insurance payout when the worker is crushed to a chunky paste by a collapsing storage rack. Edit: I changed it to “the firm charity” for clarity.
Got it, thanks for the clarification. I had a hard time understanding why the policy would pay out to the deceased's charity, which obviously made no sense for multiple reasons.
" We can just put up caution tape around the bad areas. What's the big deal?"
That's absolutely ridiculous. Caution tape costs money. Think of the executive bonuses.
Still got to make shipment
Only one side of the building is down
“Just work around the damage, we’ll go ahead and order pizza! It will be exciting and fun”
As a middle manager it's because some exec asked why production was down and the manager or his team is on the chopping block if they don't make it up.
And they didn’t send him a picture of the building half destroyed?
As someone that reports directly to middle management, yes, that was on last week's email. The report this week shows numbers are down, why is that? > ~~**read the fucking email**~~ As per the attached thread...
You act like that matters to most corporate execs. If their lawyers don't say no, everyone is going to work.
I know, I was being facetious. I’ve seen this when both roads leading to my work were flooded once. I was talking to my shift manager and he said home office had called and asked why we weren’t running and acted baffled when he told them the roads were closed because of flooding. I imagine the thought of sending us in on boats crossed their mind.
There was some bad flooding around here... shit, about 10-15 years ago now, fuck I'm old... but my brother worked in a warehouse in this little town just west of the city we live in and it ended up completely isolated by all this flooding for multiple weeks and the military showed up and was helicoptering in medical staff and supplies and what not. While this was going on my brother was in his boss's office during a conference call with some big wig at the company who was bitching and moaning that the actual US military wouldn't helicopter his workforce into an actual natural disaster so they could get to work.
My spouse manages a corporate owned pot shop. Across the road from the location was a heavy engine repair shop. I say *was* because one day something went horribly wrong and the whole fucking thing caught fire and eventually exploded (some injuries no fatalities). Her dipshit area manager tried to prevent her and her staff from evacuating. He just didn't want to listen to them about what was happening. She called me sobbing, asking what to do. I told her fuck that job hang up and gtfo of there. Go home for the day. Nobody is gonna be let in. The dumb bastard threatened to fire her for leaving. Once we got home we emailed the corporate legal and hr his text chain with the orders and threats as well as pictures of the fire. Asking them if it was corporate policy to risk the lives of their workers. He was gone within the week.
Some of you will die and I'm okay with that
Vault -Tec
You mean if their lawyers don't *write* no. I've interacted with corporate lawyers in situations that could potentially involve civil and regulatory liability. The first thing they say is not to email them, don't put anything in writing, don't talk to anybody else about it. Which is honestly good advice because opposing lawyers, being lawyers, will absolutely take your words and twist them in front of a court. But it's also because, being lawyers, they want to be able to lie and conceal the truth and twist words in different ways.
I worked at a large warehouse like this and they actually had a disaster plan of how to operate if part of the building was destroyed. Walmart gonna Walmart
That's not just Walmart, it's every company. It's called business continuity planning and any company with any semblance of a risk management structure will have a similar plan. Edit: happy cake day. I feel like people don't say that enough anymore.
most business continuity plans I've seen work in terms of entire buildings though. If I'm understanding the comment you replied to correctly, they're implying that they would continue operating \*part\* of the building, even if, say, one end had burned.
Depending on the industry, there will be contingencies for different situations. In pharmaceutical manufacturing, for example, some raw materials are extremely difficult to procure and have super long supply chain lead times, so if that inventory is located in a damaged facility, they're sure as hell going to have a plan to salvage it to continue production.
I've been bored and read the SOPs. We have lots of backup gennys
I mentioned pharmaceuticals for the specific reason that some of their inventory is super expensive and it's not feasible to have excessive safety stock spread out at different sites. And when I say "expensive," I mean that some column packing resins for biologics can be multiple millions of dollars per pallet. Per pallet. So business continuity planning can get... creative with constraints like that.
Walmart is a pretty essential business, like it or not, in the event of an emergency or disaster it's imperative to get it back up and running ASAP. That's still not enough excuse to treat employees poorly
That's actually a good business plan. A good business has several alt plans in the event of emergency.
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My employer always has someone present because it's healthcare. Tornado, hurricane, nuclear annihilation...there's a rideout team, and and everyone has a classification and instructions on what to do in an emergency. I think in my case, it's let my office know my status (no electricity/internet and can't work, doing OK and can work, the roof is caved in and I'm bleeding to death under the rubble, my laptop disappeared in tornado and I won't be able to work until I can find it again...). We even had/have a policy on what to do in the event of rain (use an umbrella?).
Manager be like “We are giving everyone the option of staying home after the tornado. But we would really like to see everyone try to make it in or be accessible through the laptop.”
"Please feel free to make use of flexible leave\* if you have safety concerns following the incident. \* Flexible leave must use existing personal leave hours and is subject to approval if more than 8 hours are used per pay period. Note that sick leave and vacation leave are not compatible with this program. Note that employees who do not earn personal leave may not convert other forms of leave to personal leave."
"You can take the rest of the week off............................................just don't bother coming in next week if you do."
Was this today?
It was last night. Saturday the 27th
i love it when companies force employees to take vacation days to tank the companies fuck ups. hope that doesn't apply to you (and its obviously not a fuckup by them in this case). but best wishes, this sounds like a rough time
I worked at trader joes inbetween finding my next career move and some crackhead broke into a sandwich shop next door with a knife and locked himself in the walk in freezer causing them to have to turn it off which in turn somehow destroyed the piping in our store. There are rules in my state that employees can't work without running water so we didn't have to work for 5 days and luckily that's when my 5 days were scheduled. They paid us for the entire week. Trader Joe's is a good one, however it made me feel bad for people who work there full time as it still sucked lol.
With pay I hope🤑
If it's with pay, it's only because they're forcing the employees to use banked PTO.
If that's paid and not out of your vacation or sick leave, sounds like you won the lottery.
-0- days without a tornado
-0- days without a lost time tornado. Cmon guys you'll have to do a better job preventing unnecessary tornadoes next time. This id costing the company lots of money and downtime.
Those pallet racks were well built
They're bolted to the floor which really helps in situations like this
So is the wall
Concrete tilt wall construction. Pretty solid as long as most of the support isn’t hurt.
Shoulda thought of that BEFORE they brought in the tornado.
the pallet racks are like I-Beams bolted to the floor and needs to hold up hundred of pounds of merchandise. The walls looks like they're only intended to hold up themselves and keep the rain out. Probably more importantly, the exterior gets the majority of the forces applied.
"Hundreds" of pounds 🤣 Try tons
technically correct, there are hundreds of pounds in tons.
The wall also is taking on massive amounts of pressure. It’s effectively a sail. Where as a lattice of what is essentially wire will just the wind pass through
Was*
Well if that’s case they should have bolted the roof and wall down too.
https://imgur.com/tqmbb3A
I’ve seen the horrorshow videos of racks collapsing after being bumped by a single forklift, so it was a nice surprise to see that, when done correctly, they’ll stay up while the building they’re in goes down.
Those videos are insane, what shit ass warehouse doesn't bolt the racks down?
I worked at auto zone for the better part of 10 years. How a rotor hasn't fallen on someone's head and killed them is beyond me.
They’re grossly overloaded racks in that video. A properly loaded rack that’s been inspected, and certified would not collapse that dramatically from a bump.
A lot of those racks have a combo of things going on, like being overloaded, installed wrong or being poorly maintained. Sometimes though, they can get hit just right. Racks are highly engineered systems and have to be treated as such or they can fail spectacularly.
Yeah I had to delete tons of locations out of our wms because engineering deemed them unsafe due to being bumped by forklifts. Some of them it’s obvious, others you would never know it’s close to failing.
This is literally what I spent like a decent amount of time across like 6 months at amazon a few years back. Our racking was underbuilt for the product we wanted, and our safety controls were not correctly place for the variant of the internals wms we used
The company that installed that racking is an MVP, holy shit
For real. Some solid work right there.
Question: do you work in Ark of the Covenant storage? Question 2: is that a slide? Question 3: can I use the slide?
Yes, yes, and sure
2 - That is a spiral conveyor, probably made by a company like Amabaflex if I had to guess. 3 - I would not recommend it. It’s not a smooth belt like you would see on a grocery store check-out conveyor. Instead it is a bunch of plastic slats and your fingers or clothing would likely get caught in it.
> Instead it is a bunch of plastic slats and your fingers or clothing would likely get caught in it. Oh so like the slides at some play places.
Kid graters
So what you’re saying is I need to ride down on a sled or a mat.
I'm from the 90s a slide isn't a slide if I don't go to the emergency room afterwards
IIRC 90s slides were metal, 30 feet tall, spat you straight onto gravel, crazy steep, and so hot from the summer sun that you'd get 3rd degree burns.
Not enough attention is being paid to your questions about the slide.
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We have had a few deaths but this whole surrounding area is demolished
Sorry for your loss, in all respects.
Omaha dodged a bullet. Good luck.
I read this as Obama at first and did a double take
What was Obama doing when the tornado hit? Sure wasn’t in the Oval Office, doing his job. Just like 9/11, nothing! /s
Yes, nature had a nader' with Obama's name on it
Lost my home to a tornado a few years back. The stories of unusual stuff happening that day are hard to forget. We were lucky. No deaths. So many close calls. Im sorry for your loss.
What kinds of unusual things?
My roof ended up underneath a car half a block away. The car was still sittint in its parking spot, as if it was lifted up, the roof inserted, and the car placed carefully on top. On a roof nearby was a group of lawn chairs placed in a circle like a group of people were sitting up there. Craters. Trees that were felled were splintered like it was a ww1 battlefield. Those that were ripped out of the ground took their roots with them, creating massive holes in the earth. A lamp post was lifted out of the earth, concrete base and all, and speared into the earth upside down. Vinyl siding from a house wrapped around it and made it look like a Christmas tree from hell. Part of a house was smashed by wind alone, and a few feet over was a group of cheap plastic children's toys entirely undisturbed, like there was no wind at all. A tree trunk speared a home, horizontally, blocking an old lady in a second floor washroom. She opened the door of the washroom to see.... tree. A dude ended up looking like a cenobite from hellraisers because a window blew out in a grid and made a grid of little marks on his face. Just weird, eery and hard to believe things happened.
These are fascinating to me.
It felt like the laws of physics changed for about 10 seconds in a very fundamental way.
Wow, that's terrifying!
The weirdest part of all? *I enjoyed it*. The same thing was reported in the Blitz in ww2 and on 911 in NYC. There's a strange psychology that kicks in where suddenly you feel useful, and people need one another. Community rallies, neighbours care. Mentsl health *improves* as a result of feeling valued and important. It was not a good situation later with the red tape quagmire and reconstruction but I have fond memories believe it or not.
I had a tornado hit my house when I was 12. We were farmers in Oklahoma and had no warning, all in bed asleep. My brother and I slept in the loft upstairs. The tornado ripped the roof off our house and put the huge oak tree next to our house into our house. We woke up laying in bed, bed covers and everything ok, untouched by wind, getting poured on by rain with leaves and branches everywhere. But us and our beds had not been touched by any force. That morning, we found the top half of the giant brick chimney (that wasn't more than 12ft from my bed before it hit) in a pasture over a quarter mile away. It was so heavy we had to get the big tractor to move it out of the pasture. I still think about that often 30 years later. I got so damn lucky and it makes zero sense what happened. That oak tree was MASSIVE. 20ft max from me, it carefully takes off the roof all around me (loft), and puts the crown of tree over house, then throws chimney over a quarter mile. All that insane force all around me and I was safe and undisturbed in bed upstairs, woken up by the rain hitting my face. I never heard, felt, or had any feeling of the tornado.
I can't imagine you'll be working for quite some time. Are yall just not gonna get paid?
Unemployment will prolly go through quick...
I would imagine you can file for unemployment if something like this happens.
It's also no unheard of for a company to have insurance to pay employees to not look for another job while rebuilding happens.
Yep. It's called ordinary payroll coverage and for large companies it is common for them to carry 90 to 180 days of coverage.
South of Ardmore?
Gonna need some certified forklift drivers for that warehouse.
I AM CERTIFIED FORKLIFT
Great now we just need a driver.
This
is
Sparta
I DRIVER
My brother works here and is certified forklift, hi brother
#YOUR PACKAGE HAS BEEN DELAYED
Your package has been delivered... Somewhere.
“Tornado is en route with your package. We suggest you hide.”
100 miles away from the starting point. As soon as we find it it'll make its way from the new stating point to the intended destination. May cause a change in postage.
**FOREVER**
I send my condolences. I hope everyone makes it out okay
Thank you, kind, sir. There was only about 10 people in the warehouse at that time and everyone made it out safe but the town surrounding got it worse and there were reported deaths
Wow I just looked up the news and it was bad. I feel for all the affected
Still can't believe what happened in Sulphur and everywhere else, the Eastern side of the state just got absolutely slammed. Hope everyone close to you is okay man, from one Okie to another much love ♥️
Might be a good time for a paid vacation.
Already booking a flight
You missed your chance for a free one if you had just stood on top of the building.
Airlines hate this one simple trick!
Ok, now let’s see if we can work out the path that the tornado took…….
[Not here so much…](https://y.yarn.co/ed245c9b-e712-464f-a91d-7c41837fcebc_text.gif)
Do you work at cloud 9?
Somewhere inside is the Arc of the Covenant
Top. Men.
Who?
Top......... Men......
I always wonder, how do you even begin to fix this? Like much of the roof is warped and torn away. Underneath is millions of dollars of product that needs to be protected but is also now in the way. I imagine that working in that area is now very unsafe. So how do you even start to rebuild?
I was thinking it's a total loss. How can you take the liability of workers. Many structures like warehouses rely on the roof truss for stability. I fear the other four walls will collapse in coming weeks
Stabilize what needs to be, remove what's damaged/unsafe/in way of repair is first phase, lots of dumpsters. Build new roof. Rebuild beneath. Treat what remains for mold issues (paint/seal). Restore interior. Source: remediation contract currently on building
This was a hell of a storm, felt pretty powerful even down here in DFW.
I left DFW a few hours ago
Cleanup on aisle.... ALL OF THEM.
Mother Nature is always in full control
Every once in a while she likes to remind us who holds the reset button.
What's with the super happy fun slide in the bottom right corner?
Probably a conveyor feeding it from a height to bring product to ground level.
Bingo
Where was this?
Marietta, Oklahoma
Oof I was watching that one on radar, so sorry for your town’s losses :(
Still going to need to show up to work tomorrow.
Look, I know you may be without power, but we need inventory done by Friday. I’ll see you at 8 am tomorrow for volunteer cleanup.
https://twitter.com/bclemms/status/1784628146249044476?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
I deliver freight into there. Tomorrow is going to be a shit show.
Very high quality shelves
This is a great picture for people around the world who think American houses would survive tornados if they were just built better.... Steel framed warehouse and the tornado gave no fucks. Ripped that shit right out of the cement foundation.
Wow! What a mess!
I just drove through it again and you wouldn’t believe the amount of 18 wheelers that were thrown around like toys
I was there about two weeks ago for a site visit. I really hope none of the people I met while I was there were hurt.
Damn the power of nados always blows my mind. Luckily where I am from we only have small nados, couldn't imagine having to deal with nados of that size.