Tornadoes
Why Tornado Warnings Weren’t Enough to Prevent Tragedy
To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Morgan Jackson, a cashier at Casey’s General Store, a gas station in Mayfield, Ky., checked the weather all day Friday as her phone bleeped with loud alerts, friends and family called to compare notes and customers chatted […]
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At Amazon Site, Tornado Collided With Company’s Peak Delivery Season
Amazon’s model of using contractors is part of a huge push that the company started in 2018 to expand its own deliveries, rather than rely solely on shipping companies like UPS. The company built a network of delivery stations, like the one Edwardsville, which are typically cavernous, single-story buildings. Unlike Amazon’s massive, multistory fulfillment centers […]
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Tornadoes Tear Through South and Midwest, With at Least 70 Dead in Kentucky
Several tornadoes touched down in Kentucky, one of them traveling for more than 200 ruinous miles. At least 70 people had been killed in the state, a toll that was likely to rise. While the destruction was spread throughout western Kentucky, much of the estimated death toll came from a single building, the Mayfield Consumer […]
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Deaths Confirmed After Tornado Hits Amazon Warehouse in Illinois
Moments after Mr. Harris entered the shelter, there was a “loud roaring noise” and the building started to shake, he said. “I felt like the floor was coming off the ground,” he said. “I felt the wind blowing and saw debris flying everywhere, and people started screaming and hollering and the lights went out.” Mr. […]
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