Amazon and Jeff Bezos murdered those people at the warehouse hit by tornado.

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e 2nd richest man in the world doesn't have storm shelters at his newly built warehouses is an absolute sham. Just stick those 60 employees in bathrooms

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I don’t know of a single warehouse that has this… the protocol is to use the restrooms.

Bezos doesn't run Amazon anymore.

lmao.. look, we all hate bezos and amazon and such... but this is just a dumb take. really dumb.

I read that the warehouse has 10 inch thick concrete walls that the tornado bent inward which caused the roof to collapse.

I'm not sure what a storm shelter would have done. This was a bad MF tornado.

It's horrible and a tragedy. I'm sure Amazon will get sued because that's what happens here but unless we find out there was some form of negligence or deferred maintenance or something, they are not at fault.

Hell I'd say that warehouse is probably one of the best places to be in a tornado like that.

Kentucky is actually in the zone for most destructive tornado activity.

Stil tragic, no question, but far from unusual.

I designed and built the bathrooms / break room as reinforced storm shelter.

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The 2nd richest man in the world doesn't have storm shelters at his newly built warehouses is an absolute sham. Just stick those 60 employees in bathrooms and hope for the best is bullshite when you have Jeff Bezos money.

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States have building codes. You build your occupied structures based on those building codes. If the building code states you should have a storm shelter, you build a storm shelter. If they don’t, then you don’t. If the code is inadequate, they need to legislate new rules to help protect lives.

Offices of a certain size probably have evacuation and shelter-in-place protocols as well. Probably required by the Fire Marshal. Same situation here if a review seems the current protocols are insufficient.

Now, if Amazon violated any of those requirements, they should be held liable.

Tornados are not like hurricanes. Not sure you can get adequate notice to send everyone home fast enough. And we cannot shut down half the country just for the possibility of severe weather. It’s a shame folks politicize weather disasters like they do.

Do they have public storm shelters in the area ?
I seen one recently in a very small town in Mississippi and don't know how common this is.

If they wouldn't let them have phones someone there should of been monitoring the storm and told everyone once the storm was 1 hour away to find shelter. Whether they stayed or left they had the option for their own decision.

Where shite is gonna get interesting is that managers wouldn't let staff leave right before the storm hit. Apparently they didn't want staff to leave(those who were off the clock during shift change) because weather was getting bad.

One of those workers who texted family saying they wont let us leave died. From the time they said they could not leave, to when the tornado touched down was 20 minutes.