Amazon warehouse storm damage: Driver tells what he saw minutes after
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- čas přidán 10. 12. 2021
- Thomas Dewalt, an Amazon driver, describes what he saw when he arrived at the Edwardsville warehouse five minutes after a severe storm hit, collapsing the roof and part of the wall.
Mr. DeWalt: I just wanted to tell you (and all Amazon drivers and workers) that you are appreciated. Thank you for all you do, and thanks for shedding light on this story.
Thank you I really appreciate that 🙏🏾❤️
Thank you so much ❤️
@@thomasdewalt3895 Best to you and thank you!
@@thomasdewalt3895
God bless you and your community. I am sorry for your loss. May you be blessed with strength and courage. You are in our prayers.
@@thomasdewalt3895 @thomas dewalt and from my family also, thank you for shedding light on this and thank God he was covering you. We can't get out much normally for financial reasons and use Amazon to get things we otherwise wouldn't be able to and when we experience issues your team is very kind and helpful and we thank God for you all. Business issues aside, we are very thankful for the service and compassionate interactions you share with us, it really means a lot. Thank God many were not at the facility and we pray that all are comforted and that your family churches are blessed to step up and help any of you in need at this time. God bless you and keep you in Jesus name amen. 🙏❣️😊
Glad this young man was safe , and praying for everyone else in this building , hope they are all ok.
Prayers are selfish.
Glad this young man was safe and sending my condolences to the families and friends of those who lost loved ones😢
Glad he’s ok. We appreciate everything these workers do to get stuff to us. They work their tails off! Prayers to those injured or killed.
If you appreciate them, actually do something and donate.
@@SLURM187 same to you!
@@amy109 I’ll donate to your nose job.
Prayers are selfish.
@@CooManTunes How are they selfish?
Make sure Karen knows why her package didn't show up before she calls the Amazon help center to complain
Glad you made it out buddy. My heart goes out to all the families.
So scary. Bless his heart...I know he's in total shock. Praying for everyone
@@plane_guy6051 Amen!!! Thank you!!! What is the point of being in shock??? Amen!!! What shall be shall be...one better be walking by "FAITH" in the Holy God and "His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ for "He" has the keys to death, hell and the grave!!! Amen!!! For whatever is not of "Faith" in "Him" is sin/thoughts of foolisness/UNRIGHTEOUSNESS...Amen!!! Never ..the...less Lord Jesus come on through Lord, come on through...
Mainly disbelief. I was so close to death and I know it’s gonna hit me hard soon but I’m maintaining the best I can
@@thomasdewalt3895 I can't even imagine. Ignore all of these crazy people posts cause I know you have to feel a certain type of way. Praying things are looking up for you now.
Just seeing the amount of destruction of what the tornadoes in this state did, I'm incredibly lucky that my job takes weather very seriously. Anytime a tornado warning is issued we are required to stop working and head into our tornado shelter basement until the storm has passed. This should apply to EVERY BUISNESS.
I absolutely agree. ☑️
This one is the worst one every record the last one they had was four years ago but this one was bad
This is what is so alarming. Amazon and the candle factory ... in the Midwest! Where were the storm and tornado precautions.
Amazon is responsible. They should have told everyone not to come in.
@@lesliejoana9153 Everybody should watch last night’s Weather Brains - look for it here on CZcams. They talked about all of that. When a company has about a one in a quadrillion chance of getting hit like that, it’s hard to get them to put a lot of money into shelters or shutting down business on a busy Friday night right before Christmas. As usual, the forecasting was terrific, but getting people to comprehend the actual danger they’re in and what to do about it is a WHOLE ‘nuther ballgame.
Thank GOD this fella made it through this catastrophe.
Oh yea, don’t forget to thank a god. I guess it didn’t wake up until after the collapse, gods have to sleep too I guess. You people crack me up.
@@Patco11 you people can't just bypass the comment with the word God? Why does it triggers you that much?
@@Patco11 Your ignorance is staggering.
@@tenderprecious Yawn
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Yes, by all means, thank your fictional sky daddy who killed people by letting this happen in the first place. Makes perfect sense. *_Oh, wait, NO, IT REALLY DOESN'T._*
Good grief, man. Do you even HEAR yourself?
He had a guardian angel watching over him. Very nice young man. Please say a prayer for all the people affected by this.
I saw the tornado about 100 feet away as it approached Sand road, exploded power lines and carried debris about 3/4 of a mile east of the Amazon warehouse, close enough to see it was rotating counter-clockwise. I was driving in my car and high tailed it south till I crossed 270, found some low ground to shelter until the worst of it passed. Pieces of apparently the building were strewn across the road, I hope the many homes in the path are all OK!
Glad you ok my unknown friend!
Horrible
Awesome ! Someone wife came looking for him ! Messages going to voicemail . her hubby was dropping off van ! Feeling for her & hope she's ok !
Not sure how big some of the spinners or tornados can get but when they come around they basically pick up and toss stuff all over the place. i only seen them in news reports or movies but they can really throw anything like miles away i guessing as it run through areas at anytime.
no basement are reinforce concrete safety rooms cost too much. their is no law force company too build them.
These people work so hard!! Breaks my heart🥺🙏🙏❤️❤️🙏🥺🥺🥺
Not all of em
Breaks my heart to
This is traumatizing. I can't imagine how scary this was seeing life on my mind right before your eyes. I'm glad this man is safe. Again, prayers going up in all directions.
If you love the creator mercy deeds are better
Than prays
But 👍🏻 for your kind heart ❤️
Again, you prayers are selfish and only exist to boost your own self-esteem.
@@CooManTunes
Mate relax
She is just praying for them
I know people need more than just prays
@@davidthewise6617 The problem isn't that she's praying. The problem is that she thinks her praying helps anyone other than herself.
Can we just say the dedication this driver has delivering packages in the midst of a freaking TORNADO !!
Yes but he shouldnt be. Amazon should have told everyone not to come in since there were warnings
@@aegisreflector1239 but greed is the reason. True everyone should have stayed home and open the business next day
@@aegisreflector1239 if u ever worked at Amazon you’ll know packages are more important than your life cause if they don’t make it out on time Amazon has to pay so they rather save a few followers and risk your life cause you we are replaceable
@@a1fbgdennis Yes i know. All these gigantic multinational corporations are scumy like that. To this day iv never even bought anything from amazon(although i have bought things from sellers on eBay before). We need to start learning how to live without big tech
It is easy to get mad when things go wrong and you get delayed but sometimes that delay could save your life. If this man had not had to backtrack he would have been there among the injured or the dead.
Glad you escaped injury or death. Your interview was calm, professional and very important as a testimony in the weeks and months ahead. It is critical to have responsible, reliable folk who can bear witness on behalf of co workers. This will change your life, before vs after. Be a force for changes for the better for all workers. Mercy to all the victims and families. God bless!
Glad this young man was safe, thoughts with those family’s that weren’t as lucky! I’m so sorry. Makes me so sad these people were just at work, doing good for their families, and this….😔
I appreciate everyone who commented🙏🏾❤️ it was a scary time and still pray for the people that is still probably in there
Will do! 🕯🕯
My heart goes out to all of you, truly. My prayers as well. I know my words are not much at all, I couldn't imagine. My heart breaks.
That was my last job 😳😳😳 Never really took tornadoes too seriously until this happened. RIP to everyone that passed, it’s horrifying to think of the 6 people who died and their last moments
Great calm an informative interview. My compliments to the interviewer and the interviewee.
Even with the weather centers hazardous/dangerous approaching weather warnings, Amazon was still sending out and requiring their employees to report to work? WOW!
It’s a tornado, they come up in minutes! What do you expect Amazon or anyone else to do! You are blaming Amazon like they are the only company in Kentucky and Illinois with workers on the job! These Is Mother Nature you can control were and when it hits. This driver got there 5 minutes after it hit, so even that close to work he didn’t know it was happening! Amazon made every effort to get these people to a protected area when they we’re alerted, I suppose you would have handled it better, because your so smart!
@@jeffrme u sound like a bot every job I ever worked at told us to stay home during bad weather all of those companies should be sued but can’t cause it was the workers fault for coming knowing it’s a warning nobody put a gun to their head and told them to
Please since you are the smartest person in the world and know way more about storms, please call every company in the world and let them know exactly when storms are going to hurt people so we never have to worry about tornadoes again! Your blaming Amazon for this is so asinine I wish they would read your post and sue you for Slander! NO ONE NEW THAT A TORNADO WAS COMING!
What blows my mind...people still complaining about not getting their amazon packages today or this weekend.....
People bug out for any reason, they all can sit and be quiet till all this stuff gets sortd lol. i mean who knows what packages got taking away by the spinner at time so i can see all orders are on hold till stuff can be fixed and sent later.
Glad you are safe but so sorry for your community.. prayers go out to you all at this time 🙏
Saw this on news last night..so sorry..saw lady looking for husband who had talked to her endure to warehouse.Praying she'll find him alive.🙏🙏🙏🙏❤❤😥😥😥
Ok Son I’m so blessed you are good I’m praying for all the families this was horrible
Wow. He barely escaped with his life 🙏🏻
My heart goes out to every single person involved, prayers for all..
Most importantly are the workers and human lives! Material things can be replaced human lives cannot. He is blessed to be alive. Prayers to all! ✝️🙏😞❤️✝️🕊
We can thank God for inconvenient sidetracking because He uses that to keep us safe, like He did fir this young man.
It worries me Amazon's gonna fire him for getting a news interview
Y’all will know. But so far no word from them about this
Amazon always tryna fire everybody for everything
What a horrific mess. This is a devistating event, and one of the biggest natural disasters in many years. Prayers to all the families still waiting for notice of loved ones that maybe injured or deceased. To all 1st responders our prayers are with you too as you face this tragedy.
This isnt a natural disaster it's cheap Construction for a mega Corp to profit without paying taxes .
@@sixfigureskibum you've never been in a tornado, have you? Have you seen the rest of the state?? Even the strongest of buildings have trouble standing up to tornadic winds. ESPECIALLY when they receive a direct hit from the tornado.
@@asholesmith2014 1986 in Michigan one ripped the hell out of everything when we had gone to town shopping. Drove through it . Fact remains this was the largest tornadoe ever and the one I experienced was in augest when they are supposed to happen. Tbs I grew up hearing grandma tell about fence posts impaled clean through by chicken feathers. But besides regular tornadoes, when I was helirapeler fire fighter I initial attacked a full fire tornadoe yes ground to sky over 300 feet 9f flames at base and 3000 feet of spinning hell
@@sixfigureskibum if all that is the case, then why blame the construction of the building for all this?
loving the compassion in the comments. could have been anyone of u on here. grace and mercy to u all reading this.
I think he's trying to say the leading dock was wiped out.
I was about 12 minutes away sitting watching the lightning…Mother Nature is a beast. Hope all the employees are taken care of,especially with the holiday season here.
Wow! So many ways this guy was blessed in not being a casualty!! 😟 🙏prayers to Kentucky
🙏 for all of you affected by these tornadoes. ✌
The original count was 40 to 50 dead and 150 buried alive or injured !
Obviously its worse !
This young man your interviewing is really good guy ! Probably still in shock! Im praying for everyone ! These families are going to need help ! Especially , at the Holidays ! I hope you guys stay in this and follow up with lost ones families or those injured so they get the support they All need!
They’re lying about the numbers it’s damage control foreal
My prayers goes out to the workers at that facility out there 🙏🙏🙏 Lord wrap your loving arms around everyone keep them safe
What, after killing them? You're joking, right?
He’s a G for keeping the rag on during the interview 😅
It was 1:15am and had no haircut😂
@@thomasdewalt3895 glad you’re safe brother♥️
COME ON JEFF YOU KNOW YOU NEED TO FIX THIS IT WOULD BE THE BEST THING YOU EVER DID ROCKET BOY
Thank God the Lord was with this man that he did not arrive any sooner than those last five minutes!!!!
Why wasent God with the other people who died and suffered?
@@fishingpinky3165 Your right...Thank you for correcting Brian....God is with everyone ...This kid just happened too have the better end of the stick thats all.
@@fishingpinky3165 kiss the devil and shame yourself. May GOD have mercy on those workers and the rescue people.
@@abe_linc02 Brian did not need correcting, Quarter Horse did. Just because he thanked God that he was with this man doesn't mean God was not with those who died and suffered. He was.
@@fishingpinky3165 That is not what Brian meant. God was with those who suffered by helping them to endure and he was with the dead ones as they have the hope of the resurrection. Please do research so you won't make disrespectful, inaccurate comments.
Sending prayers from California!
I wonder if this is the same Amazon warehouse that was keeping their workers on site during a shutdown? I was watching videos yesterday from Amazon workers in a warehouse. They weren't allowed to leave and were playing games whilst everything was shut down. I really hope its not the same warehouse...those workers I saw yesterday wanted to leave and go home🥺💔
It’s was all the Amazon’s that did that. I work at the building in Connecticut it was the same situation
Prayers for all who survived and the families of those lost.
This man is very lucky. Terrible tragedy.
I am a driver at DKY8 and my prayers are with you all!! I feel like your family.
People see this should read up about another long track Tornado that struck back on March 18, 1925 which is the Tristate Tornado which traveled through three states Missouri, Illinois and Indiana which hit 13 counties and causing catastropic damage in 19 plus communites with complete devastation along the way killing 695 people which was a record for a single Tornado along with 234 deaths reported in Murphysboro alone and another 33 deaths reported at the Desoto school which was a record for a single community from such a disaster along with injuring thousands of lives 2027 injuries and 15,000 homes destroyed with fierce F5 winds in excess of 300 mph,.A reading of 28.87 which was the lowest recorded reading in history on the barograph trace at the Old Ben coal mine in West Frankfort Illinois. A Tornado reportly being a mile wide that carved a 219 mile path with a record speed of 73 mph set between Gorham and Murphysboro. In seeing the damage here this was very similiar damage done by the 1925 Tristate Tornado and it wouldnt be surprise to see them increasing the wind strength of that Tornado that traveled through Mayfield F4 to F5 with winds around 240 TO 275 mph given the history of this being on the ground for that long along with the damage it caused obliterating everything in its path this would indicate the strength of the Tornado was alot stronger than an EF3 tornado which they said had top winds of 155 mph and bare in mind back in 1925 there was no advance warning systems in place nor any dopplar radar like they have today which may as it appears have saved alot more lives
Praying everyone is safe
We had an urgent training tonight at Amazon before I could get online they told us to NOT talk to media and gave us scripted responses to direct them to our PR team. This guy will probably be fired shortly after this interview unfortunately.
God bless you all! I hope everyone is rescued safely.
So very sorry 😢 such an awful tragedy!! Prayers to all of you and your families! From all of us at Amazon air Rockford Illinois 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
This was very helpful, thank you! Apparently not as many people in the building as I thought, so that’s a good thing. What a nightmare storm! My heart goes out! 💜
I know the feeling of the timing in getting a package delivered vs getting back to the warehouse. It makes all the difference in the world. Thank God you are Safe and May God Cover You and All the Workers and Families at the facility and town that was hit by the storm. Your Fellow MD Amazonian.🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
I appreciate that 🙏🏾 and it’s crazy because this the first time that I accidentally backtrack but now i see it was for a reason
He said the bathroom was gone?? Dang, I can’t imagine someone in there sitting on the can and then whoosh, no ceiling.
Something like that happened in Syria, dude was playing runescape on livestream and a bomb blew off his house rooftop. he didn't even flinch.
As a fellow Amazonion I want to say thank you I know how hard we all work. God bless you all. I'm in the middle of the tornado valley in Texas so like we have very strict shelter in place drills. Many people don't take it seriously. But it is a very real thing.
Praying for the people to be found and be safe, how horrible
Right I work full time at a amazon delivery station let me tell u this they don't care about people lives they really don't
Prayers and positive energies for everyone back home 🙏🏾
Glad you are safe
This must have been a CAT 5 Tornado….. with all of this damage and lives lost it’s almost certain….
This was outside of St. Louis. Fortunately there's no homes near the warehouses. Most of the damage around here is up in St. Charles. Pales in comparison to what happened in KY.
An EF5 would've completely done worse.
God was with you man. He is great, He is good. You survived for a reason, keep doing Good work. Prayers for you and your coworkers, and your families ♥️✝️.
You would think they would of shut down . When the temp is this warm in Dec. and you see a wall of red and yellow on the radar you can almost bank on trouble.
It's Amazon....you would think wrong. Amazon Is one of the most exploitive businesses I know of.
I think it's safe to say I speak for everyone at FC DAL3, when I say, we're thinking about you and hope you guys and gals are able to get back on your feet soon. We hope the injured a speedy recovery and our deepest sympathies for friends lost.
❤️ to everyone going through these tornados~take care of yourselves and thank you for all of your hard work, every day, I am very grateful for you and thankful for your hard work, love and prayers. ❤️.
Amazonian's and families are in our prayers 🙏 ❤
How much time before the start of the collapse and the final collapse?
Glad he's safe.
Prayers to all
At least Bezos had a carefree and fun day.
Yup he’s a real sob
Amazon authorities climbed over the dead and the injured in the damaged area of the warehouse to make sure the customer packages were alright........
🙏 Prayers for all who work there and all who were affected by this tragedy. Hopefully no ones lives were lost in this collapse. May Yahweh Keep Them protected.
So sorry for all involved.
That's was the grace of God that protected him 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
I wonder if the lady who was on the news last night looking for her husband ever found him?
That building wasn't built very well then. We had a tornado hit the chrysler transmission plant in kokomo in. Several yrs. Ago it devastated kokomo, but we just kept on working, it took some chillers off the roof,but thats it.
Thanks for the reference.
You do realize not every tornado is the same this one could have been way more powerful then the one that hit you
That means the winds weren’t strong enough to do significant damage, the storm that hit this building knocked over steel beams as if they were nothing! It takes some serious winds to do that kind of damage, a high end EF3, EF4 EF5 type of tornadoes can do this to even a well constructed facility
First off, it's estimated that this particular tornado could have been an EF4, and I wouldn't be surprised to see it classified higher later. Very few structures hold up well against that magnitude of tornado.
Secondly, I want to commend you on your dismissal of these peoples' particular experience last night, based on the superiority of your employer's buildings compared with ( your assumption of ) the inferiority of theirs. Good job.
Way to empathize with others.
First off, I don't doubt that the building was built bare minimum to code. But it was also a very strong tornado. Unlike the one that hit your building, this one looks to have been an ef4-5 rating. Only building I know to survive a direct hit from one of those with minimal damage is a hospital and even that will lose windows and even get shifted off it's foundation.....
Glad you are okay!
Happened in Baltimore a couple years ago too!
Some reporters have no compassion and just want drawn out details and she's one of them. I've been praying and crying for everyone🙏
Goodwill and peace to all. There are no other words………prayer
Prayers from DfW FC to my fellow amazonians and their family's
Prayers for everyone 🙏
It's so sad, prayers for everyone. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Why would they have their co-workers working, when the weather news said it was gonna be high wind & etc. Companies don't care, as long as they have a good numbers on their products. 🕯🤷🏼♀️💰 They don't care about their safety js
I sure hope Amazon steps up and pays their employees!
OMG praying for everyone
whats fd up is they will probably fire him for talking to the media
If they do y’all will know for sure! But so far no word from them about this
This is just sad 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
Sweet Jesus of Nazareth thank You for saving this young man...♥️🙏
I bet the automation robots had a FEILD DAY
that had to be a nado, hard to see a recho just gutting the middle
it was, I saw it, see comment above...
Hum, and all my life I thought the words were TORNADO and DERECHO, but my IQ is much higher than your 70.
She seems annoyed did she forget he is in 😲 shock it will hit him eventually..
She care about her new feed. Not them
Call it what it is a tornado ripped it apart.
amazon needs to pay for this
Do they get two day prime cleanup?
Was she's asking a question or making a statement ? I need someone to interpret please
She’s just saying stuff like that!
Google translator.
What do you expect...
Look how amazon builds these cookie cutter warehouses with barely any framing all over America just to house all of our precious Chinese products
Hope all is well.
A properly built building doesn’t fall over.
In an EF-5 tornado, anything will fall over.
& it didn’t "fall over" it collapsed and there’s a difference
Anybody missing a package?? Lord knows theres a lot of christmas gifts in there
Why was he doing deliveries in a tornado. Amazon crackin that wip
Of course.
I bet anything bezos is more concerned about the damage to the warehouse, highly doubt he gives a shit about his expendable warehouse workers dying.
True.
It's so weird how cause and effect works for some people. This man probably could of caught all those red lights and was like why me. But this time it could of saved his life catching all those red lights. or if a package was giving him a hard time and had to spend 5 more minutes making sure it went to where it needed to be and at that moment your feeling like the things i got to do for this job. But if he got back 20 minutes before and not being held up it could of been bad for him. I'm not saying that is what happened just a what if. the next time you are late for work and get mad cause you stuck at a light for 2 minutes. that chain reaction could benefit you. then again it can also be the reason for suffering. You just never know.
Yk this is something that’s still running through my mind because I actually was mad that I did backtrack on a package I already delivered and also the first time I did that but apparently saved my life
@@thomasdewalt3895 wow! Incredible 🙏🏽
Geeze...lucky to be out when this building got hit