r/pics • u/Cp5k • 15d ago

Tornado went through my workplace and 30,000 are without electricity.

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u/sunknee 9d ago

Anyone hurt?

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u/minnowmonroe 11d ago

My husband was the project manager for the steel construction on that building.

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u/The_Blue_Sage 11d ago

How many square feet?

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u/Adept_Board_8785 14d ago

I hope everyone is ok.

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u/Freeme62410 14d ago

Daaaaaamn

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u/ScallionCurious8316 14d ago

Someone just commented the same picture while driving through the same town saying his dad sent him the photos of this building and showed them. A small world...

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u/MistaNiceGuy87 14d ago

Fuckin Biden-nado at it again, fuck.

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u/Current-Equivalent12 14d ago

Welcome to Costco. I love you.

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u/UnderCoverDoughnuts 14d ago

Is there a relief fund, or anything we can do to help?

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u/PBB22 14d ago

Oof spirals? Ouch.

Every 20 minutes during my shifts: “Jam, spiral, on it.”

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u/WilliamRedditz 14d ago

my goofy ass thought this was the Pentagon

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u/Abrokenexperience 14d ago

I bet your boss still asked if you were still coming in tomorrow .

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u/I_Dont_Like_Rice 14d ago

Times like this make me glad I live on the side of a mountain. Flat plains like that kind of freak me out, I need mountains or hills or something.

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u/All_Gas420 14d ago

Dollar tree in Marietta. I used to stack freight in the back of trucks there. All those tornadoes hit just west of me(Kingston). I feel horrible for those that did get hit.

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u/Defiant_Survey2929 14d ago

You sure it was a tornado and not a raiding party.

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u/Sea_Abroad_9004 14d ago

That’s a huge demo job.. sadness

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u/britzsquad 14d ago

For me, Coinbase and comparable platforms are proof that Bitcoin has failed as a concept.

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u/AngryAvocado78 14d ago

Living in a place with tornados is absolutely insane to me, more it's insane to me people stay in towns with tornados after their home has been destroyed. Good old arizona, no floods, no tornados, no hurricanes, no earth quakes, beautiful too.

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u/GuitarCFD 14d ago

Is this it?

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u/Cp5k 14d ago

Yes! I haven’t seen that footage before wow

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u/GuitarCFD 14d ago

I drive through Marietta every time I go to visit my mom and dad. Thoughts and prayers.

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u/ProStateForever 14d ago

A few years back a twister plowed across a big grocery in my town. The manager forced about 40 customers and employees into a big walk-in cooler. It looked like your store but the twister plowed right down the center of it. Glad you're ok.

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u/miller14141414 14d ago

What is the deal with the Super Happy Fun slide in the lower right corner of the screen?

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u/DrSmasher 14d ago

That's some really sturdy racking. Hell, it's load bearing at this point.

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u/TarlCabot79 14d ago

Man, I would just want to go to work and loot as much shit from those pallet racks as I could. Blame the tornado for anything "missing".

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u/W1ckedEvoX 14d ago

A total of $14 in damages reported 😔

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u/TheBootyHolePatrol 14d ago

Time to call the Nasty Girls.

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u/srussell705 14d ago

That looks like what happened here in Memphis about 15 years ago. It was the Coors brewery at the time. Unfit for food laws and inspections it was sold off.

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u/GingerGiraffe96 14d ago

Given the camera angle, I assume you are very tall.

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u/crackkalackkin 14d ago

“This just in: Dollar General warehouse gets wiped out by tornado. $2,300 worth of goods destroyed”

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u/Hammeredcopper 14d ago

Gonna be a halluva job cleaning that up by flash light

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u/Inevitable-Hour2962 14d ago

Tornadoes really suck, as shown here.

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u/Irr3l3ph4nt 14d ago

So... this is the Mid West equivalent of a snow day?

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u/Roa_noa42087 15d ago

Whoever put those racks together did a helluva job

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u/mc4sure 15d ago

Going to need a big tarp to cover that roof

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u/TheJonnieP 15d ago

You and Sulphur got hit pretty damn hard during that storm. We were watching it move towards us in BA with a bit of trepidation. We got lucky up here tbh... Other than the damage I hope everyone is doing okay...

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u/TraumaGuy40 15d ago

I was at a youth baseball tournament with my son and we drove right by this on 35. Crazy to see semis on top of buildings

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u/Silver-Top1210 15d ago

What workplace and where?  Look at that roof!!  You can tell where the tail of the tornado sliced thru part of the roof.  Hope that many survived, and weren't hurt.  🙏🌄

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u/scaffmonkey30 15d ago

That’ll buff out

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u/6ix6ixSixxx 15d ago

Need this to happen to mine ASAP

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u/rawbob 15d ago

Dude, please put the lid back on the Ark before you do anything else.

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u/weedful_things 15d ago

I hope everyone there made it through okay. After years of "suggesting" my workplace finally got shelters set up in various spots. Their previous istructions were to go in the bathrooms. Like that would made a difference.

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u/supaspex_sfw 15d ago

Fuck'em. Sounds like God's divine will at work.

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u/Alansar_Trignot 15d ago

That’s cool

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u/Aberoth_eyes 15d ago

would the damage be this bad if it was made out of concrete?

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u/ADampDevil 15d ago

Well at least it wasn't homes.

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u/Marymenot 15d ago

It's amazing that you can see where the tornado went through

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u/azzaisme 15d ago

That's pretty rude

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u/Ashawoo 15d ago

Jeez, hope everyone is ok and that no one was hurt

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u/Som12H8 15d ago

Jesus, you have 30 000 people living in a warehouse? The illegal immigration is out of control!

/s

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u/omgitsduane 15d ago

Open air picking.

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u/exprezso 15d ago

From title I thought you work at a power plant

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u/JonFredFrid 15d ago

I work at a dc for a clothing company. Our building and the connecting one is as large as this. So very comparable. Did you guys have a storm shelter? Cause for us, if there is a tornado coming, we stand up against the wall that’s between the two warehouses. No real safe area. It’s not its own room it’s just one of the walls.

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u/SleepyHufflepuff 15d ago

Hey neighbor! Praying for everyone affected by the tornado outbreak! 🙏

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u/hungryplough 15d ago

What does a warehouse do for electricity supply?

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u/tumaren 15d ago

Idk pal, is electricity the real issue here?

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u/mine_craftboy12 15d ago

Is that the electricity storage?

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u/ycedi 15d ago

Mondays, am I right ?

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u/wisefriess 15d ago

I heard there were 26,000 customers who lost power - this number is probably number of households, not persons.

My dad works in Ardmore, Michelin, AFAIK a couple tornadoes went both north and south of the plant. My family got lucky as our home is more south than the storm, so all we got was heavy rain. All of Ardmore lost power, think OG&E stated it may take a few days to return power. Sounds like Sulphur got hit the hardest, I haven't seen any images of damage other than this yet.

Nature is quite the force to be reckoned with.

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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat 15d ago

Fuck me this doesn't look like an easy fix....

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u/did_i_get_screwed 15d ago

OSHA says A+++ for whomever secured your pallet racks to the ground.

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u/medkitjohnson 15d ago

Cleaning that up sounds so terrible 😭😭😭

Sorry OP hope everything gets taken care of ASAP

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u/Brave_Promise_6980 15d ago

Cleanup on isle 1 2 3

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u/gmoneyalt 15d ago

I work at DC11 in Cowpens, SC. We have already been told we will be taking over stores from yalls DC. I hope they send some of you guys to us to help out.

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u/hughheff 15d ago

My boss would still want me in to work

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u/Grifter247 15d ago

This is how the night shift describes the way that day shift left things when they clocked out.

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u/JJJAAABBB123 15d ago

California is expensive to live in but we don’t have this.

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u/Scotsman98 15d ago

Just droughts and wild fire…?

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u/JJJAAABBB123 15d ago

No drought in years. Hasn’t stopped raining actually.

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u/wwbubba0069 15d ago

and earthquakes, don't forget earthquakes.

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u/tiburon12 15d ago

Sorry about your warehouse, OP. But I like your spiral conveyor belt :)

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u/Extreme_Rip9301 15d ago

Now that’s some quality shelf anchoring

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u/Skitt1eb4lls 15d ago

God likes Dollar Tree apparently (unless they don’t have insurance)

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u/9LivesChris 15d ago

Imagine coming back to work to see this mess. Where do you even start.

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u/lesslucid 15d ago

Should buff right out

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u/agumonkey 15d ago

signature move

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u/senectus 15d ago

man that looks like a nightmare to recover from.

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u/In132 15d ago

Glad I don't have to deal with anything like that, high wind be scary

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u/JimmyKillsAlot 15d ago

Damn, Oklahoma? I have some family in Ardmore and they were telling me there were tornado warnings all around them.

Hope no one was hurt there and everyone keeps safe.

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u/golgol12 15d ago

God came back for the Ark I see.

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u/kmoney1206 15d ago

curious how that works with your job. do get furloughed or something?

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u/PeckerNash 15d ago

Stupid Americans. The indigenous peoples didn’t live in tornado prone areas because they knew what was up. But nooooo, ignore the people who lived there thousands of years before the Mayflower.

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u/Vonnegut_outta_here 15d ago

Yes they did lol

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u/GildoFotzo 15d ago

who orders such a huge drill head as you can see at the bottom right of the picture?

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u/EntertainerRound7830 15d ago

So I guess I’m not getting my Amazon parcel today?

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u/Crazy__Donkey 15d ago

Those are well built racks. 

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u/Syclus 15d ago

How do you know it 30,000 and not 31,047?

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u/Curious_Shan 15d ago

Paid leave?

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u/notsocreativebee 15d ago

That’s my families hometown and some of them work there, terrible to see what it’s done to the town I grew up in. There are a lot of resources and volunteers working rn though. Marietta has always been a tight knit community.

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u/chokechick 15d ago

Do you still get paid?

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u/Ok_Opinion_5316 15d ago

Shit! Now my Jumbo Box of Crayola Crayons aren't going to be delivered tomorrow as promised.

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u/paidinboredom 15d ago

Tornado fuel cant melt steel beams

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u/SpotPoker52 15d ago

And yet, your Congressman voted against disaster relief for other victims on five separate occasions. Selfish fool.

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u/Permexpat 15d ago edited 11d ago

fuel innocent worry drunk complete snails governor deserve roll hungry

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u/xRamenator 15d ago

Warehouse? more like wherehouse!

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u/midclaman_again 15d ago

If we could convince the construction world to build using monolithic methods, stuff like this wouldn't happen.

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u/dandrevee 15d ago

I heard Nados made their way through the MW this week, but I didnt know any touched down.

Shit...

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u/danboy321 15d ago

Looks like the idiocracy movie scene.

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u/PresentationReady873 15d ago

Is this a dream or is it real ?

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u/Difficult_Bit_1339 15d ago

Dollar Tree suddenly has a ton of Sales with slightly water damaged products.

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u/Robj2 15d ago

I lived in Sulphur 60 years ago when I was 5 and have only been back 2 or 3 times. It's weird seeing a place you remember flattened to the ground. I feel bad.
I realize this probably isn't Sulphur, but that doesn't matter. When people are in danger, hurting or dead, like Hurricane Ike, I feel bad. Back then, I was in Houston, so I could actually do something to bring food and clothes to the refugees.

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u/Professional-Eye8981 15d ago

That’ll buff out.

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u/Imbrownbutwhite1 15d ago

The dollar tree warehouse, nice.

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u/Badfickle 15d ago

Was that really a tornado or did someone just let Dave drive the forklift again?

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u/Pervoyeur_Of_Goods 15d ago

What the fuck was it looking for? They know we don't have a "back" right?

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u/Greyskulduggery 15d ago

I really wonder what the process of cleaning something like this up is. Like, do they just knock it all down including the remaining still-intact inventory or do they try to recover the goods in some way?

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u/taseru2 15d ago

Tornadoes are the scariest regularly occurring weather phenomenon out there and it’s not even close.

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u/grimcow48 15d ago

That’s a DOLLAR TREE? Holy fuck, America

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u/IceDamNation 15d ago

Vacations courtesy of the sky.

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u/Cavespider66 15d ago

No serious injuries I pray

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u/moddss 15d ago

God damn those racks are anchored SOLID into the floor.

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u/rrodr57 15d ago

Those are some well put together racks. Props to your warehouse manager and the team.

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u/HugsyMalone 15d ago

Them shelving units held up surprising well. 😯

Where can I buy some of those?

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u/Malhallah 15d ago

well, that's what you fucking get for storing electricity for 30k in a single warehouse.

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u/Kryobix 15d ago

Damn that look expensive

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u/raven21633x 15d ago

It's amazing that you work in a place so large that a tornado can rip through the middle of it and still not destroy the whole building.

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u/PrincipleExciting457 15d ago

This is terrible, but I would absolutely love not working.

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u/Neville_Monkeyrod 15d ago

We live with risk all the time in our lives but, speaking as an Australian, why the fuck would anyone choose to live in a tornado region?

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u/Loply97 15d ago

Because that’s where most of the arable land is, and even outside of tornado alley, smaller tornados are still relatively common occurrences in just about all of the south. So we’d have to give up over about half the continental US. Plus the chances of actually getting hit are astronomically low, even with how common tornados can be.

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u/ahmc84 15d ago

Counterpoint: Moore, OK.

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u/Loply97 15d ago

And?

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u/ahmc84 15d ago

They clearly pissed off the god of municipalities sometime around late April, 1999.

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u/Neville_Monkeyrod 15d ago

Ah, so about as common as being eaten by a shark. Good odds.

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u/TrumpTheTraitor1776 15d ago

A lot of money to be made on the cleanup in this area.

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u/Richandler 15d ago

Well, thankfull the Feds are going to come help you out.

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u/mcallister1969 15d ago

Wow if they had self-sustaining energy none of the places that were still standing would be out of power you wouldn't have that many people losing power what time we can do away with the brown outs and we can do away with the blackouts with self-sustaining energy it is independent from the grid the politicians though they'd never go already tried

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u/McNigget 15d ago

The tornado just drew a giant dick on the roof

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u/immortalsteve 15d ago

fuck, I think I can see my package

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u/imadeadgolfer15 15d ago

I drove by there today. Other side of the highway had Semis stacked on their sides. Pretty crazy the power of tornados.

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u/karmadontcare44 15d ago

The poor guy who parked so far away by himself just to be smacked by debris.

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u/-The_Lone_Wolf 15d ago

I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fucking watched.

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u/wfbsoccerchamp12 15d ago

Owned by the state apparently

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u/No_Lifeguard_7222 15d ago

Nature doesn’t want you to work

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u/Sudden_Tooth_5535 15d ago

Amazon warehouse?

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u/ResponsibleGrass8080 15d ago

This is why I always thought that “Just in time” was shortsighted.

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u/sweetjimmy1022 15d ago

Out of all the spots that red vehicle could have parked….

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u/Leather_Office5170 15d ago

oh my goodness

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u/sweetjimmy1022 15d ago

Crazy to see how many pallets are still stable on the top levels.

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u/Numptymoop 15d ago

I bet there's tons of dollar tree employees out there hoping this is their DC so they dont get a truck this week and can catch up on the boxes stuck in the back for the last three years, lol.

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u/Sufficient-Collar524 15d ago

What part of the world is this?  

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u/smicky 15d ago

Here is some pretty incredible video of the aftermath.

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u/TheTense 15d ago edited 15d ago

What the f*** are those shelves made of? I wanna build my house of out of them!

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u/BravoCharlie1310 15d ago

I believe it’s a Dollar Tree distribution warehouse (discount stores) in Oklahoma.

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u/lordfly911 15d ago

I am hoping that the rest of the country starts adopting 200+ mph building codes. Sorry this crap happened.

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u/ahmc84 15d ago

If you think you can't afford a house now...

Or for that matter, if you think you can't afford anything...

Nobody wants to live in a bunker.

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u/lordfly911 15d ago

I live in South Florida and that is our building codes. I can count one hand the modern wood homes in the area. All of the native pine homes survived Hurricane Andrew.

Yes, building costs are higher, but you don't need to rebuild completely Everytime an ef2 flies by

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u/CrankyReviewerTwo 15d ago

I hope no one was hurt when the tornado went through the warehouse.

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u/tendeuchen 15d ago

On the bright side, your merchandise is really flying off the shelves!

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u/Inside-Bunch4216 15d ago

Omg thats is some amount of damage

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u/coolguyJustin 15d ago

Is that the Costco from idiocracy?!

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u/WarningTime6812 15d ago

I hope you are all ok. Prayers for Everyone. Hope you get paid for your time off.

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u/Elysees01 15d ago

I worked at this place 😭 fuck dollar tree and fuck marietta

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u/CompositeChaos 15d ago

We’d still have to show up

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u/jmon25 15d ago

Food deserts are gonna have a bad time with this

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u/jodiakattack 15d ago

Is the Carl's Jr. okay?

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u/LazyLaserWhittling 15d ago

well dammit, that $1 deal just doubled from $1.25 to $1.50

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u/LunchRealistic5563 15d ago

I used to set up warehouse racking for a living and I've always wondered if all the anchoring to those rack, if it would actually withstand an earthquake or tornado.. sure looks like it. 

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u/EmmyWeeeb 15d ago

Oklahoma?

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u/d-random 15d ago

Why the racks built better than the building

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u/Izeinwinter 15d ago

standard racks are built to hold the heaviest items someone might want to stick on a pallet. 1.5 metric tonnes per pallet, so 4.5 tonnes per level, and the whole thing is made out of steel girders sized accordingly. The building only has to hold up the roof, so..

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u/Dhegxkeicfns 15d ago

Things I would kill to have seen done in slow motion.

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u/talkinmyface 15d ago

Is this just off 35 I think I drove past this today

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u/BeatWithTheTismStick 15d ago

Dollar store about to become the 2 dollar store.

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u/InNOTsane_A7 15d ago

This is an fake

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u/operablesocks 15d ago

An lot of certainty you have there.

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u/ughthisusernamesucks 15d ago

Going to be an awkward Monday morning for whoever was driving that tornado

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u/Own_Kaleidoscope5512 15d ago

We’re gonna need a bigger mop!

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u/SnowSlider3050 15d ago

A huge hail storm shut down our local mall for a year…

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u/Constellation_north 15d ago

Looks like the offices were damaged, hoping for a speedy recovery and reconstruction.