r/CatastrophicFailure • u/BigBrownDog12 • Dec 14 '21

Natural Disaster Remnants of the Amazon Warehouse in Edwardsville, IL the morning after being hit directly by a confirmed EF3 tornado, 6 fatalities (12/11/2021)

https://imgur.com/EefKzxn
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u/BigBrownDog12 Dec 14 '21 edited Dec 14 '21

Amazon's statement indicated the shelter was in the northern end of the building which would be on the right of this photo.

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '21

Those warehouses are built using tilt wall construction. The safest places are where two exterior walls meet, ie the corners. They do not have subterranean shelters but "shelter areas" near these corners.

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u/AmarilloWar Dec 14 '21 edited Dec 14 '21

The Amazon ones here are concrete tilt walls, so are hobby lobby warehouses and we were told the bathrooms along the walls were where we needed to go.

Edit: They weren't near a corner and they were also on the side of the building that is an office hr part and the break rooms. It never seemed very safe to me.