When I read stories like that, I quit my complaining about having to shovel snow every morning for the last two weeks
Killer Tornadoes
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I call BS! There is NO WAY you can get a truck across the Atlantic and up the St. Lawrence in one day!I’m now in Cornwall.. no snow here. 43F
I’ll be in Montreal for delivery tomorrow
Or at all. . . except maybe on a ship. Or a C-17.
Umm.. ever looked at a map of North America? You can google it you know.
1 day?? 3 days.
left Storm Lake, IA down to I80
under Chicago, over to Detroit.. cross at Windsor and up the 401.. to Cornwall, Ontario, Canada
Not Cornwall England
Well to be fair, I'm sure TB was actually being sarcastic.
You were being a lazy idiot.
Apparently, a significant percentage of the Canadian population has no freakin' clue where the original Cornwall is.
Not many Americans know how many states the USA has, can’t name a country outside the USA.. and in some cases can’t even point out the USA on a blank map..
U.S. opens probe into Amazon warehouse fatal collapse in Illinois
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The site of a roof collapse at an Amazon.com distribution center a day after a series of tornadoes dealt a blow to several U.S. states, in Edwardsville, Illinois, U.S. December 11, 2021.
The site of a roof collapse at an Amazon.com distribution center a day after a series of tornadoes dealt a blow to several U.S. states, in Edwardsville, Illinois, U.S. December 11, 2021. Photo by DRONE BASE /REUTERS
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EDWARDSVILLE — The U.S. workplace safety watchdog is investigating the circumstances around the collapse during Friday night’s storm of an Amazon.com Inc building in Illinois in which six workers died, an official at the U.S. Department of Labor said on Monday.
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The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has six months to complete its investigation, issue citations, and propose monetary penalties if violations of workplace safety and/or health regulations are found, Scott Allen, a U.S. Department of Labor regional director for public affairs, said via email. He added that compliance officers have been on site since Saturday.
Six workers were killed when the Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois, buckled under the force of a devastating storm, police said. A barrage of tornadoes ripped through six U.S. states, leaving a trail of death and destruction at homes and businesses stretching more than 322 kilometres.
Amazon spokeswoman Kelly Nantel said the company would cooperate with the investigation. “OSHA investigates all workplace fatalities and we are supporting them,” she said.
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Responding to a reporter, Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker said officials are investigating the condition of the warehouse before it gave way.
“Already there has been an effort to determine some of the challenges … if there were any structural issues, what exactly the storm’s trajectory was coming in and affecting the various pieces of the building,” Pritzker said.
TORNADO TIMELINE
The National Weather Service said a tornado hit the area around 8:30 p.m. CST on Friday, intensifying rapidly as it struck the Amazon warehouse. Peak winds were estimated at 241 kilometres per hour, causing severe damage.
The site received tornado warnings between 8:06 p.m. and 8:16 p.m. before the tornado struck the building at 8:27 p.m., Amazon said.
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Several employees told Reuters over the weekend that workers had been directed by Amazon managers to shelter in bathrooms after receiving emergency alerts on mobile phones from authorities. At least one worker died there, according to his co-worker.
Amazon said employees were directed to shelter in place at a designated assembly area at the front of the building, which was near a restroom.
Some of the workers told Reuters they had mobile phones with them despite what they believed was an Amazon policy preventing them from having the phones in their possession while at work. Amazon said there was no policy preventing employees or contractors from having phones at work.
Edwardsville, a city of 27,000, is about 18 miles northeast of St. Louis, Missouri.
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The company has three facilities in Edwardsville: the delivery station hit by the storm, as well as a fulfillment centre and a sorting station. The delivery station opened in July 2020 to prepare orders for last-mile delivery to customers.
The site, a compound comprised of a few buildings, has been under heavy private and police security through the weekend, accessible only to relief teams and some Amazon and government officials. The remains of the destroyed warehouse were mostly dismantled, reduced to rubble.
“It was crazy – I was on my way into the warehouse from Pontoon Beach (Illinois) when it happened. I saw the storm and was trying to get in as quickly as possible,” said Brady Robison, 22, an Amazon van driver who works at the facility.
“I just saw the roof completely tilted up … it’s messed up that people had to lose their lives while they were at work.”
At least 45 Amazon employees made it out safely.
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The site of a roof collapse at an Amazon.com distribution center a day after a series of tornadoes dealt a blow to several U.S. states, in Edwardsville, Illinois, U.S. December 11, 2021.
The site of a roof collapse at an Amazon.com distribution center a day after a series of tornadoes dealt a blow to several U.S. states, in Edwardsville, Illinois, U.S. December 11, 2021. Photo by DRONE BASE /REUTERS
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EDWARDSVILLE — The U.S. workplace safety watchdog is investigating the circumstances around the collapse during Friday night’s storm of an Amazon.com Inc building in Illinois in which six workers died, an official at the U.S. Department of Labor said on Monday.
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The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has six months to complete its investigation, issue citations, and propose monetary penalties if violations of workplace safety and/or health regulations are found, Scott Allen, a U.S. Department of Labor regional director for public affairs, said via email. He added that compliance officers have been on site since Saturday.
Six workers were killed when the Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois, buckled under the force of a devastating storm, police said. A barrage of tornadoes ripped through six U.S. states, leaving a trail of death and destruction at homes and businesses stretching more than 322 kilometres.
Amazon spokeswoman Kelly Nantel said the company would cooperate with the investigation. “OSHA investigates all workplace fatalities and we are supporting them,” she said.
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Responding to a reporter, Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker said officials are investigating the condition of the warehouse before it gave way.
“Already there has been an effort to determine some of the challenges … if there were any structural issues, what exactly the storm’s trajectory was coming in and affecting the various pieces of the building,” Pritzker said.
TORNADO TIMELINE
The National Weather Service said a tornado hit the area around 8:30 p.m. CST on Friday, intensifying rapidly as it struck the Amazon warehouse. Peak winds were estimated at 241 kilometres per hour, causing severe damage.
The site received tornado warnings between 8:06 p.m. and 8:16 p.m. before the tornado struck the building at 8:27 p.m., Amazon said.
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Several employees told Reuters over the weekend that workers had been directed by Amazon managers to shelter in bathrooms after receiving emergency alerts on mobile phones from authorities. At least one worker died there, according to his co-worker.
Amazon said employees were directed to shelter in place at a designated assembly area at the front of the building, which was near a restroom.
Some of the workers told Reuters they had mobile phones with them despite what they believed was an Amazon policy preventing them from having the phones in their possession while at work. Amazon said there was no policy preventing employees or contractors from having phones at work.
Edwardsville, a city of 27,000, is about 18 miles northeast of St. Louis, Missouri.
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The company has three facilities in Edwardsville: the delivery station hit by the storm, as well as a fulfillment centre and a sorting station. The delivery station opened in July 2020 to prepare orders for last-mile delivery to customers.
The site, a compound comprised of a few buildings, has been under heavy private and police security through the weekend, accessible only to relief teams and some Amazon and government officials. The remains of the destroyed warehouse were mostly dismantled, reduced to rubble.
“It was crazy – I was on my way into the warehouse from Pontoon Beach (Illinois) when it happened. I saw the storm and was trying to get in as quickly as possible,” said Brady Robison, 22, an Amazon van driver who works at the facility.
“I just saw the roof completely tilted up … it’s messed up that people had to lose their lives while they were at work.”
At least 45 Amazon employees made it out safely.
U.S. opens probe into Amazon warehouse fatal collapse in Illinois
EDWARDSVILLE — The U.S. workplace safety watchdog is investigating the circumstances around the collapse during Friday night’s storm of an Amazon.com Inc building i…
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'From grief to shock': Tornadoes kill at least 74 in Kentucky
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A general view from a bedroom window inside the home of the Cato family after a devastating outbreak of tornadoes ripped through several U.S. states in Mayfield, Kentucky, U.S. December 12, 2021.
A general view from a bedroom window inside the home of the Cato family after a devastating outbreak of tornadoes ripped through several U.S. states in Mayfield, Kentucky, U.S. December 12, 2021. Photo by CHENEY ORR /REUTERS
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MAYFIELD — The barrage of tornadoes that tore through six states killed at least 74 people in Kentucky, officials said on Monday, as those fortunate enough to survive unscathed opened their doors to victims whose homes were destroyed, and hundreds of the suddenly homeless took refuge in shelters.
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The death toll was likely to rise as 109 people remained missing, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said.
But no more dead were expected to come from a destroyed candle factory as a company spokesperson said later that a final accounting showed only eight dead. At one time, dozens were feared buried there beneath the rubble.
Some 28,000 Kentucky homes and businesses still lacked power, and 1,000 homes were damaged or destroyed, officials said, after the tornadoes surprised people by striking unusually late in the year during cold weather on Friday.
The dead, including at least six children, ranged in age from 5 months to 86 years old.
“You go from grief to shock to being resolute for a span of 10 minutes and then you go back,” Beshear said, choking up at times.
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Amid the roller coaster of emotions, it has proven difficult for authorities to pin down the exact death toll. Piles of wreckage, interruptions to cell service and the number of people sheltering with friends and relatives have complicated efforts to identify fatalities.
The final death toll from Mayfield’s candle factory will stand at eight, as the remaining 102 workers who were on duty when the tornado struck are alive and have been accounted for, a process that took three days given the chaos brought by the disaster, company spokesperson Bob Ferguson said.
“Tremendous relief,” Ferguson told Reuters. “And now there is a real urgency to help those who lost their loved ones.”
While Kentucky bore the brunt of the tornadoes, including one that tore across tore across 365 kilometres of terrain, six people died in an Amazon.com Inc warehouse in Illinois, four were killed in Tennessee and two in Missouri, while a nursing home was struck in Arkansas, causing one of that state’s two deaths.
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The U.S workplace safety watchdog is investigating the circumstances around the collapse of the Amazon facility , and the company said it would cooperate.
Across Kentucky, neighbours and volunteers worked to house, feed and offer any other assistance to those whose homes were damaged, destroyed or stripped of electricity.
In the neighbouring town of Wingo, about 90 people, from babies to the elderly, are sleeping on green cots that fill a warehouse-like room with low ceilings and a large standing cross at a community centre affiliated with a Presbyterian church.
Stephen Jennittie, 52, was staying there with his wife, Christie Bonds, their Chihuahua puppy, Mr. Jingles, and about 90 other Mayfield residents, since the power and heat were knocked out of their home.
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Their survival felt like such a miracle that it renewed his religious faith, Jennittie said, recalling how his house shook amid the rumbling noise.
“I was talking to God and I told my lady, when we get out of here, we’re going to start going to church,” said Jennittie, a seventh-generation resident of Mayfield who said he may leave a devastated hometown that he no longer recognizes.
“It ain’t the Mayfield I grew up in.”
‘KIND OF IN DISBELIEF’
Homes across the town had collapsed walls, missing roofs and uprooted trees scattered across lawns.
With so many homeless, the Wingo shelter was short on mattresses on Saturday. But after one phone call, a local furniture store owner brought in more than two dozen mattresses, said Meagan Ralph, 37, a middle-school teacher who found herself appointed the community outreach director when she showed up to volunteer over the weekend.
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“Some of them are really shocked and just kind of in disbelief, almost denial. For some, the emotion is unbearable,” Ralph said.
President Joe Biden will attempt to raise spirits with a planned visit on Wednesday to hard-hit areas including Mayfield, the White House said, after the president declared a major federal disaster in Kentucky on Sunday.
Late on Monday, the president also declared an emergency in Tennessee and Illinois and approved federal assistance for the two states.
More than 300 people in Kentucky, as well as in Arkansas and Tennessee, are being housed in Red Cross shelters, and that number is expected to grow. Hundreds more have been placed temporarily in resorts at area state parks, Kentucky Red Cross Chief Executive Steve Cunanan said.
Still others stayed with friends and relatives whose houses were spared.
David Hargrove, 62, surveyed the rubble that was once his private law office in downtown Mayfield. Amid the debris, a vault that was built into the 23-year-old building stood as the only part to remain upright.
He plans to rebuild.
“You either sit down and cry or you get moving,” Hargrove said. “I’m not much one to cry if I can avoid it.”
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A general view from a bedroom window inside the home of the Cato family after a devastating outbreak of tornadoes ripped through several U.S. states in Mayfield, Kentucky, U.S. December 12, 2021.
A general view from a bedroom window inside the home of the Cato family after a devastating outbreak of tornadoes ripped through several U.S. states in Mayfield, Kentucky, U.S. December 12, 2021. Photo by CHENEY ORR /REUTERS
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MAYFIELD — The barrage of tornadoes that tore through six states killed at least 74 people in Kentucky, officials said on Monday, as those fortunate enough to survive unscathed opened their doors to victims whose homes were destroyed, and hundreds of the suddenly homeless took refuge in shelters.
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Article content
The death toll was likely to rise as 109 people remained missing, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said.
But no more dead were expected to come from a destroyed candle factory as a company spokesperson said later that a final accounting showed only eight dead. At one time, dozens were feared buried there beneath the rubble.
Some 28,000 Kentucky homes and businesses still lacked power, and 1,000 homes were damaged or destroyed, officials said, after the tornadoes surprised people by striking unusually late in the year during cold weather on Friday.
The dead, including at least six children, ranged in age from 5 months to 86 years old.
“You go from grief to shock to being resolute for a span of 10 minutes and then you go back,” Beshear said, choking up at times.
Advertisement
Story continues below
Article content
Amid the roller coaster of emotions, it has proven difficult for authorities to pin down the exact death toll. Piles of wreckage, interruptions to cell service and the number of people sheltering with friends and relatives have complicated efforts to identify fatalities.
The final death toll from Mayfield’s candle factory will stand at eight, as the remaining 102 workers who were on duty when the tornado struck are alive and have been accounted for, a process that took three days given the chaos brought by the disaster, company spokesperson Bob Ferguson said.
“Tremendous relief,” Ferguson told Reuters. “And now there is a real urgency to help those who lost their loved ones.”
While Kentucky bore the brunt of the tornadoes, including one that tore across tore across 365 kilometres of terrain, six people died in an Amazon.com Inc warehouse in Illinois, four were killed in Tennessee and two in Missouri, while a nursing home was struck in Arkansas, causing one of that state’s two deaths.
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The U.S workplace safety watchdog is investigating the circumstances around the collapse of the Amazon facility , and the company said it would cooperate.
Across Kentucky, neighbours and volunteers worked to house, feed and offer any other assistance to those whose homes were damaged, destroyed or stripped of electricity.
In the neighbouring town of Wingo, about 90 people, from babies to the elderly, are sleeping on green cots that fill a warehouse-like room with low ceilings and a large standing cross at a community centre affiliated with a Presbyterian church.
Stephen Jennittie, 52, was staying there with his wife, Christie Bonds, their Chihuahua puppy, Mr. Jingles, and about 90 other Mayfield residents, since the power and heat were knocked out of their home.
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Article content
Their survival felt like such a miracle that it renewed his religious faith, Jennittie said, recalling how his house shook amid the rumbling noise.
“I was talking to God and I told my lady, when we get out of here, we’re going to start going to church,” said Jennittie, a seventh-generation resident of Mayfield who said he may leave a devastated hometown that he no longer recognizes.
“It ain’t the Mayfield I grew up in.”
‘KIND OF IN DISBELIEF’
Homes across the town had collapsed walls, missing roofs and uprooted trees scattered across lawns.
With so many homeless, the Wingo shelter was short on mattresses on Saturday. But after one phone call, a local furniture store owner brought in more than two dozen mattresses, said Meagan Ralph, 37, a middle-school teacher who found herself appointed the community outreach director when she showed up to volunteer over the weekend.
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Story continues below
Article content
“Some of them are really shocked and just kind of in disbelief, almost denial. For some, the emotion is unbearable,” Ralph said.
President Joe Biden will attempt to raise spirits with a planned visit on Wednesday to hard-hit areas including Mayfield, the White House said, after the president declared a major federal disaster in Kentucky on Sunday.
Late on Monday, the president also declared an emergency in Tennessee and Illinois and approved federal assistance for the two states.
More than 300 people in Kentucky, as well as in Arkansas and Tennessee, are being housed in Red Cross shelters, and that number is expected to grow. Hundreds more have been placed temporarily in resorts at area state parks, Kentucky Red Cross Chief Executive Steve Cunanan said.
Still others stayed with friends and relatives whose houses were spared.
David Hargrove, 62, surveyed the rubble that was once his private law office in downtown Mayfield. Amid the debris, a vault that was built into the 23-year-old building stood as the only part to remain upright.
He plans to rebuild.
“You either sit down and cry or you get moving,” Hargrove said. “I’m not much one to cry if I can avoid it.”
'From grief to shock': Tornadoes kill at least 74 in Kentucky
MAYFIELD — The barrage of tornadoes that tore through six states killed at least 74 people in Kentucky, officials said on Monday, as those fortunate enough to survi…
sadly our country i think its called canaduh would not have done well.
Canadians know the would.. Americans only know the country that are at war with that month
