one of the Kentucky tornadoes traveled on the ground 227 miles, supposedly the longest any tornado on record has in the U.S. The death toll in the state is expected to exceed 100
I've been reading about the candle factory collapse and it's just nightmarish.
Why were there workers in the building at all? seriously I barely slept friday night because there were so many tornado warnings going off. The safety measures taken don't seem sufficient
The workers had barely any warning before the tornado hit. It sounds like they couldn't even hunker down in a marginally safer area before the tornado started ripping the walls off the building.
"Duck and cover?" What is that supposed to do? Running for cover with a moment's notice is not going to do shit unless you're in a solid, structurally sound, preferably underground area. there's supposed to be a designated shelter and you are supposed to be in it before the tornado is RIGHT THERE.
This company has blood on their hands
I feel like it's important to remember who dies during tornadoes: poor people, mostly.
This is to say, literally, that people with a multi story house can often go in a basement to escape a tornado. It is ideal during a tornado to be underground.
If you live in an apartment, you almost definitely don't have a basement, and there may not be a central area inside the building you can go to.
And if you're in a mobile home/trailer? You're fucked. The tornado will pick you up and throw you.
If you're rich, you're more likely to be able to take off work if you need to, say if there's going to be dangerous severe weather, and you probably don't work in a huge warehouse building that's dangerous to be in during a storm. You don't have to work in a factory for people that don't care if you die.
this is about the Amazon warehouse collapse in Illinois.
What do you mean, you don't know how many people were in the building. What do you mean, it's "unclear" if the shelters were built to withstand a tornado. "Unclear?????" This is the Midwest, it's the most tornadoed place on the planet!!
How hard would it be for Amazon to dig storm shelters in its warehouses. Y'all have more money than God.
Read this article and notice how important details are missing—were workers in the shelters when the tornado hit? When did they start moving toward shelter, was it when the tornado warning initially went out?
Any option looks awfully bad on Amazon—either the shelters aren't built to withstand a collapse of the roof, or the workers didn't have time to make it to shelter before the tornado hit, or the workers weren't informed in time that there was a tornado
Note also that Amazon, which famously documents and controls every fucking minute of worker time and insistently tries to prevent so much as a second's idleness... Amazon which is in many ways a logistics company that documents everything... is claiming uncertainty the minute that the bill written in blood comes to their doorstep. Amazon is pretending human ignorance while it demands robotic precision from its human workers.
Amazon is whining that they can't be expected to know all that.
Fuck em. Demand justice for the workers they murdered, because that's exactly what they did by extracting that level of control without appropriate safeguards.
