Mass casualty incident reported after tornado hits Amazon distribution center in Illinois - Officials are confirming there are fatalities at the Amazon facility in Edwardsville following Friday night’s severe weather.
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Shouldn't this be moved to Happenings at this point?
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Two funnels approaching Nashville, accompanied by 106mph straight line winds at the small airport at the western metro area. (To put that in perspective, that is the equivalent to a mid-grade F1 tornado, but it's happening all over. That is quite the experience if you've never been in the middle of something like that.) Cameras on the western outlying areas like Oak Hill are starting to pop. Aaand the weather guy on stream just bailed for the moment to go call his family.
Footage from Nashville right now, torrential rain, hail, and tornado sirens screaming. Turn your sound on for nightmare fuel.
An apartment balcony in Nashville as the storm approaches. Loud, clear sirens howling.
Footage from Nashville right now, torrential rain, hail, and tornado sirens screaming. Turn your sound on for nightmare fuel.
An apartment balcony in Nashville as the storm approaches. Loud, clear sirens howling.
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Been pouring since at least 10 PM where I'm at. There's a tornado watch in effect.
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I've lived around the area most of my life and warm winter days aren't uncommon. You'll be celebrating Christmas in a t-shirt one year and have a White Christmas the next.
These winter tornadoes are not exactly rare for this time of year. A cold front will snap through dropping temperatures behind it and hit warm air in the region and spawn some tornadoes. Global warming faggots will cry wolf and way this is global warming, but really, this is just weather to us.
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I'm surprised that they didn't say "God punishes filthy unvaxxed with wave of extreme weather caused by climate change."
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Well that was something earlier tonight. I don't think I've ever seen wind like that and can only imagine what people in Bowling Green or the Amazon warehouse felt. It's so goddamn loud it almost sounds like a tornado and just shakes everything. Thought some shit would come right through the window. Pretty sure I saw a funnel cloud too coming right at me but mercifully it moved in the other direction.
This happens like once a decade or so, the only difference is Mississippi and Alabama aren't getting whacked like the past few times.
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Serious question, what do you do when those go off in that weather? Do people still have cellars and whatnot?
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Take shelter in an interior room and pray that you don't have a particularly strong EF3 or above roaring over your head. If you've got a cellar, and a monster EF5 is coming your way, pray it goes somewhere else, because those monsters can rip foundations out of the ground with you included.
Tornadoes are scary as fuck, but you've got to really lose the lottery on life to die from them. A majority are EF0 and weak EF1s that aren't likely to hurt you. Even if a monster tornado is rocking your town, you've still got to be pretty unlucky to wind up in it's path.
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I thought a well constructed storm cellar was a safe bet. You know, there are occasional tornadoes/funnels that pass through NYC, an EF2 passed through Brooklyn in 2007. Nor'easters are a yearly thing but the occasional tornado or funnel happens every so often.
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Things quieting down in Nashville, seems like they got lucky and none of the multiple funnels that rolled through on either side of the city ventured in to do serious damage.
Sounds like you were in the straight-line wind zone. That shit is wild when it happens. And funny you mention MS, because most of the action seems to be in northern MS, but not seeing much talk about it affecting populated areas.
Depends on where you are. I've lived in two different parts of the Tornado Alley region in the USA. In one place in the 80s in the Midwest, we had a crawlspace under our house, and we'd go there if the funnel was approaching (not sure if you've ever seen/been in a crawlspace, they're not as common as they used to be and were kind of a regional thing as far as I know, but they SUCK). Where I was in the Southeast later, the water table was too high for either basements or crawlspaces to be dug, so getting underground at all wasn't an option. What we'd do was get into the innermost room in the house, preferably a bathroom -- you want as many walls as possible between you and outside, and the piping makes it a bit stronger. Then you get in the bathtub, pull a blanket or a mattress over yourself to protect from shrapnel, and pray to any deities you may prefer. In school, we'd get into an innermost hallway, and duck and cover against the walls, which were cinderblock. If you're in a store or something and there's no shelter area, go to the far side and cross your fingers.
Not much new info on the Amazon warehouse, but I do have a little more footage that includes radio chatter from the parking lot near the EMS vehicles, and a photo from inside the/an Amazon warehouse that helps put the aftermath footage and pics in perspective. And another video of the specific tornado that hit the place.
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Nasty thought -- all those packages that had to have been inside would've turned into flying shrapnel when the tornado hit.
Footage from out by the EMS vehicles:
Footage of the Edwardsville tornado cruising along:
The above appears to be taken from about the same time as the Danielle Henke tornado video I posted earlier -- which according to this Tweet was actually taken right as it was about to strike the warehouse. Comparing against the drone footage, the lights right behind the funnel may actually be the warehouse. Here's a link to the original Facebook post where the Henke video supposedly originated, reposted below for convenience because I can't be arsed to find that earlier post of mine.
Sounds like you were in the straight-line wind zone. That shit is wild when it happens. And funny you mention MS, because most of the action seems to be in northern MS, but not seeing much talk about it affecting populated areas.
Depends on where you are. I've lived in two different parts of the Tornado Alley region in the USA. In one place in the 80s in the Midwest, we had a crawlspace under our house, and we'd go there if the funnel was approaching (not sure if you've ever seen/been in a crawlspace, they're not as common as they used to be and were kind of a regional thing as far as I know, but they SUCK). Where I was in the Southeast later, the water table was too high for either basements or crawlspaces to be dug, so getting underground at all wasn't an option. What we'd do was get into the innermost room in the house, preferably a bathroom -- you want as many walls as possible between you and outside, and the piping makes it a bit stronger. Then you get in the bathtub, pull a blanket or a mattress over yourself to protect from shrapnel, and pray to any deities you may prefer. In school, we'd get into an innermost hallway, and duck and cover against the walls, which were cinderblock. If you're in a store or something and there's no shelter area, go to the far side and cross your fingers.
That last one happened to me once when there was a tornado on the far side of the parking lot, which fortunately went the other direction. Sky was olive green and it was dark like sundown even though it was the middle of the afternoon. Weird thing was the way the winds were going that time, it wasn't the usual freight train sound you may have heard people describe it as (which is accurate, I've heard that from other tornadoes, and its different from the roar of hurricane and nor'easter winds, which are also interesting experiences -- I've lived in too many places with excitingly shitty weather), it got freakishly, suffocatingly still for a few minutes, like the world was paused. Then it resumed moving and the wind started back up again. One of the weirdest experiences of my life, standing there in the store as a kid with my mom and little brother, and a bunch of random shoppers in the dark, basically waiting for the gods to roll the dice and determine if we all lived or died, as there was no really safe area in that building.
Not much new info on the Amazon warehouse, but I do have a little more footage that includes radio chatter from the parking lot near the EMS vehicles, and a photo from inside the/an Amazon warehouse that helps put the aftermath footage and pics in perspective. And another video of the specific tornado that hit the place.
Nasty thought -- all those packages that had to have been inside would've turned into flying shrapnel when the tornado hit.
Footage from out by the EMS vehicles:
Footage of the Edwardsville tornado cruising along:
The above appears to be taken from about the same time as the Danielle Henke tornado video I posted earlier -- which according to this Tweet was actually taken right as it was about to strike the warehouse. Comparing against the drone footage, the lights right behind the funnel may actually be the warehouse. Here's a link to the original Facebook post where the Henke video supposedly originated, reposted below for convenience because I can't be arsed to find that earlier post of mine.
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That warehouse looks shaky af. Really worried for anyone who may have been inside.
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There's finally a statement about the Amazon warehouse, and there's some more info on the candle factory and the nursing home, too.
Edwardsville Amazon Warehouse
It's now confirmed that an unstated number of people were killed in the Amazon warehouse. 47 survivors have been pulled free and taken to safety. They still don't know how many total people were in there when the tornado hit, so they can't yet be sure how many are still unaccounted for. There will be a press conference at 5:45AM, presumably US Central Time. No archive because the website blocks it.
Got some more photos of the Amazon site.
Mayfield Candle Factory
The Mayfield candle factory situation is horrific. When I started writing this post, the estimate was 50 dead. It's now 70-100 according to an interview with Governor Beshear. EDIT -- Shit is unclear if he means at the factory or statewide. Either way, currently sounds like the bulk of known deaths are in Mayfield and the factory. Bowling Green has no power and I'm still not seeing much that's more than rumors there.
Photos that I believe are of the candle factory (people suck at writing Tweets).
Monette Nursing Home
Also, here's a recording of EMS combing the Monette nursing home that collapsed early on in the storm. The Tweet author says Bowling Green but I think they're mistaken, this looks like the photos I saw of Monette.
Edwardsville Amazon Warehouse
It's now confirmed that an unstated number of people were killed in the Amazon warehouse. 47 survivors have been pulled free and taken to safety. They still don't know how many total people were in there when the tornado hit, so they can't yet be sure how many are still unaccounted for. There will be a press conference at 5:45AM, presumably US Central Time. No archive because the website blocks it.
Got some more photos of the Amazon site.
Mayfield Candle Factory
The Mayfield candle factory situation is horrific. When I started writing this post, the estimate was 50 dead. It's now 70-100 according to an interview with Governor Beshear. EDIT -- Shit is unclear if he means at the factory or statewide. Either way, currently sounds like the bulk of known deaths are in Mayfield and the factory. Bowling Green has no power and I'm still not seeing much that's more than rumors there.
Photos that I believe are of the candle factory (people suck at writing Tweets).
Monette Nursing Home
Also, here's a recording of EMS combing the Monette nursing home that collapsed early on in the storm. The Tweet author says Bowling Green but I think they're mistaken, this looks like the photos I saw of Monette.
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I don't get it, do tornadoes just spontaneously materialize rather than being seen hours beforehand? Wouldn't the workers have hours to get away? Or are we living in a cartoon dystopia where the government allows corpos to bring in workers during a natural cataclysm but shut down the whole economy when one of their own or his family might get a bad cough?
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In certain areas of the south/southeast basements aren't common because the ground is too rocky. Got peeps I know in Arkansas, and no one there has a basement.
North of Missouri, basements are ubiquitous. Only trailers and the cheapest houses don't have them. In older houses they might be damp concrete and unfinished, not fit for storing trash in, but safe enough in a storm.
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Earlier I saw Tweets mentioning a Facebook Live video posted from one of the workers while trapped in the candle factory. Found it, and so did the DailyMail. Scraped it off their site because Facebook is loginwalled.
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Oh for sure basements aren't always possible but I thought a storm cellar isn't part of the home, it's built underground close by, but not close enough so the house can fall on it. I think they're common in the Plains states in some areas, where they're called root cellars.In certain areas of the south/southeast basements aren't common because the ground is too rocky. Got peeps I know in Arkansas, and no one there has a basement.
North of Missouri, basements are ubiquitous. Only trailers and the cheapest houses don't have them. In older houses they might be damp concrete and unfinished, not fit for storing trash in, but safe enough in a storm.
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Even this weird brick townhouse I rented in SF (weird because brick is uncommon in older homes there because they pop off and become flying projectiles during a strong earthquake) had a cellar, which was yucky since SF can get damp all year round so it was useless.
This is just horrible, the AZN warehouse and candle factory, how awful for them and their families. And you know the Federal government will be absolutely useless.