re: Tornado outbreak, 94 dead, Upwards of 100 unaccounted for search/rescue & cleanup ongoing

Just dont scrimp.

A woman in Mayflower, Arkansas, a few years back got one but put a substandard door on it. EF-4 came through. Door failed. She died.

You should see people from the Kentucky Baptist Convention. They should already be there providing food and support.

I'm not a Southern Baptist, but their Disaster response teams are legit.

At around the 40ish minute mark on the WPSD coverage they completely lost the NWS chat. They could not get logged on. They could not see any reports. They could not read the discussion directly from the chat.

That shite has got to change. It is happening regularly now, and seems to only he getting worse. I know the chat was flooded because that was THE storm and THE only market active at that particular time, but the servers should be able to handle the traffic. This isn't a new issue. It has been complained about for a couple years now, maybe longer.

Just saw an interview with a worker at the candle factory. Said they wasnt allowed to leave after the first siren.

Bobby, you have no idea how shitty this place was. Drug addicts and alkies trying to earn drug money. Cars broken into. It was awful working conditions. The CEO doesn’t think it’s not the company’s fault. There was no shelter.

Some serious lawsuits, maybe even murder charges, are gonna fly.

Hear me out first....
The big problem with letting employees leave for every warning is that it will be seriously abused. Perhaps it had been allowed in the past, hence their policy last Friday.
99% of tornado warnings, even for those "in the polygon" amount to nothing.
So, if you let employees leave for every type weather warning, you'll lose a lot of production. Further, I guarantee that factory was probably a sturdier structure than a majority of the employees' homes.

All that being said, to me, it's a damned if you do and a definite damned if you don't.

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Story says workers were threatened they would be fired if the left their shift early

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I read the NBC national article on that earlier. I almost posted it.

Wouldn't be a tornado event if Elmore county didn't put one on the board Friday.

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The big problem with letting employees leave for every warning is that it will be seriously abused. Perhaps it had been allowed in the past, hence their policy last Friday.

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There are also policies in place that won't allow workers to leave in such instances as active warnings.

I was at work on April 27, 2011. I worked seconds, 4-12. The warning for the Hackleburg/Phil Campbell storm got extended into the county/city where I worked. We were told to take our emergency precautions. For our part of the plant, that meant we stood out on the dock and watched the storm cross the river from around 3 miles to the Southeast. That's neither here nor there.

After that warning was allowed to expire we immediately went under another. At that point we were listening to radio coverage from our vehicles that we had pulled under cover from hail, power was out.

Company policy was that no one left with an active warning. The gates were locked. That policy was overridden by the plant manager and we were told we could leave if we wanted.

Most of us didn't return for more than a full week.

That said, the candle factory is a bit different because there was a lull between their first warning and the warning for the long tracked storm. They had time to leave.