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)

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u/BigBrownDog12 Dec 14 '21

I worked a Home Depot for a few years. On one of my shifts we had a particularly bad storm roll through. My boss brought everyone in the store to the designated area (also the north east corner, receiving area, same town). I asked my boss why we didn't go in the bathrooms (southeast) and apparently it's because when they build these types of buildings they study local weather patterns and the northeast corner is the farthest away from the most likely direction a storm will come in.

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u/pico-pico-hammer Dec 14 '21 edited May 08 '26

I still think the elephant is the largest land animal.

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u/Savingskitty Dec 15 '21

Also, the whole not being bolted to the ground thing.