I not sure if the damage shocks me or the sheer size of that warehouse !!!

@patmurray1076

3 ай бұрын

Tornado isn't PREJUDICE !!!

@klayvonisme

3 ай бұрын

Both. It’s really mind boggling. The enormous amount of product in this one warehouse is absolutely incredible. The amount of trash and cleanup just as unbelievable. I’m truly speechless.

@greglavers

3 ай бұрын

Dollar General in Ardmore,Ok has 6 of these sized buildings in one complex. It's about 40 miles away from this facility.

@PlanetObservatory

3 ай бұрын

driven past it several times. It is huge

@5408hairy

3 ай бұрын

Mother Nature doesn't Play well with others... She can be Ruthless!

Prayers to all who were impacted by this devastating and deadly tornado.

@larsbee

3 ай бұрын

prayers and thoughts ... again??? doesn't that get old... and it never helps anybody

@UserCF-hs1df

3 ай бұрын

@larsbee Hi, I don't think praying for people to recover ever gets old. Being empathetic and sympathetic to others' misery are human emotions. Peace.

@Randy58-zn4ez

3 ай бұрын

Thinking that you can telepathically communicate with an invisible man through prayer is delusional.

@iAmBadWithNames

3 ай бұрын

​@@larsbeedw. I will send you a cup of my semen in your trying times instead of prayers.

@user-pb8ej4et4p

3 ай бұрын

100% innocent man ​@@larsbee

I'm sorry for everybody affected by these tornadoes. My prayers and my thoughts are with you.

@Spaceman_spliff

3 ай бұрын

Agreed for all the civilian population affected by this, but fuck dollar tree and other big corporations, they can get bent

@soyoucametosee7860

3 ай бұрын

​​@@Spaceman_spliffyeah! That's right! Bite the hand that feeds you!

@williammiller8134

2 ай бұрын

Thank you guys it was hard seeing all that in person

Tragic. I wonder how many people were employed at that facility and are now ununemployed. Hopefully, none of them were injured or killed.

@Nwilliams09

3 ай бұрын

I worked there, I had asked what would happen to us employees in the event of something like this and they said employees would have the option of going on leave or helping with clean up, I don't know how true that is though.

@TheRealestHi

3 ай бұрын

Well, they’re gonna be working for a long time cleaning that mess up.

@sandasturner9529

3 ай бұрын

​​@@TheRealestHi I hope that's mostly food, that way, I won't actually have to work. Yummy 😋🤤 😜

@greglavers

3 ай бұрын

@@Nwilliams09 Yeah I work there (or worked there) too.

@soyoucametosee7860

3 ай бұрын

Take the option to help clean up.

These pictures really sadden me.

What a mess😢

@user-dh6bj2me5p

3 ай бұрын

It'll take 3 weeks to clean up. 3 months to build a new building. It's just "stuff."

@soyoucametosee7860

3 ай бұрын

​@@user-dh6bj2me5psome folks needed that "stuff" from the dollar tree.

GOD BLESS THEM AND KEEP THEM SAFE ❤❤❤❤❤

Where’s all the countries lining up to help the USA ?

@AndyStraus-nq8db

3 ай бұрын

Did some country invade the dollar tree warehouse with artillery, tanks, guns,drones and planes? Does the US help out when theres a building collapse in another country? Go back to school. Jeezus fuckin christ.

@francispicurro9990

3 ай бұрын

@@AndyStraus-nq8db Are you out of your mind… You’re telling someone else to go back to school?? You don’t know how many trillions of dollars the USA has given to other countries when natural disaster strikes…If you’re going to try and stand on a pedestal at least know what the hell you’re talking about

@AndyStraus-nq8db

3 ай бұрын

@@francispicurro9990 Do we send aid for tornadoes, however infrequent, to other countries? Tornadoes in the US are a frequent occurrence. Not a once in a decade earthquake or typhoon. I don’t consider a tornado a natural “disaster”. They happen almost every month. If there is an earthquake that destroys entire cities, they need LIFESAVING help that their governments don’t have the resources to give. Giving aid to a country that has been invaded by a GLOBAL MILITARY POWER is night and day. Also, the US is the wealthiest nation on earth.

@maiaraandrade1952

3 ай бұрын

@@francispicurro9990 Yall should stop building paper houses on a tornado corridor.

@Gravvvyyy

3 ай бұрын

@AndyStraus-nq8db wealthiest nation. 37 trillion dollars in debt. You have no idea how economics work. Ask inflation. Then ask yourself about the UAE. 🤦‍♂️Jesus christ.

I pray there were no injury’s!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

I can’t even imagine the work it will take to clean up that mess let alone the work to repair it.

Prayers for all.

The roof got peeled away, and the stuff on pallets just below it is still there. Wild.

@edwardzarnowski5558

3 ай бұрын

We had a tornado come through our small farming town . We were in church on a Wednesday night prayer service. The tornado missed our full church by about 50 feet. The houses around lost their roofs. I'll never forget coming outside and seeing a house with the roof off and the Rubbermaid tubs in the attic - still in place with their lids on ! 😮

Welp, everything just went up to $1.50

@MTZCustoms

3 ай бұрын

$2-$7

@tg-ik5pf

3 ай бұрын

Wow. Dollar 50 Tree Karma Boomerang 🪃🪃🪃🪃

@1Life2Live007

3 ай бұрын

More like $10. It’s already $5 and $7

@suspendeddisbelief786

3 ай бұрын

I just gave your comment a big ole 😀 on the KZread comment survey because I was thinking the same thing.

@Trumpster-007

3 ай бұрын

@@tg-ik5pf 😳

Oklahoma. I guess setting up shop there somebody had a plan in case a tornado hit? That being said, seeing tractor trailers flipped up on top of each other is one hell of a mess cleanup.

That place looks huge. What a terrible loss. There is a saying, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket ".

@zhubanish-7772

3 ай бұрын

Да только по 2 яиц

@greglavers

3 ай бұрын

They have many distribution centers like this one around the US.

@msbeckyjayers

3 ай бұрын

The Oklahoma saying I thought was " don't put your entire family in one mobile home park " just saying..

@xxbrkdwnxx

3 ай бұрын

Okay but that's how. Distribution centers work

@ty_w3bb63

3 ай бұрын

There is 24 distribution warehouses in the U.S. and yes they are all this huge. Just thankful everyone made it out safely. 🙏

Wow, now that's alot of destruction to sort threw

How many people were at work when this happened?

@xxbrkdwnxx

3 ай бұрын

6. All maintenance workers. No Injuries

Dollar tree can't get a break 😅

@jeffjones9931

3 ай бұрын

They will when that insurance check arrives 😂

@getchasome6230

3 ай бұрын

They just sold every item in inventory plus the building to tu he insurance. Im sure they're elated

@annerodriguez4470

3 ай бұрын

Corporate are evil

A tornado did all this ? Absolutely terrible

@DaltonReutlinger

3 ай бұрын

I've seen some comments saying we may have had the first EF5 since 2013 with that last storm

@reaIixx

3 ай бұрын

Technically yes, but it won't be rated EF5. Anyway the damage here is only about EF3 strength

@kale_xo

3 ай бұрын

This was rated EF4.

That ' s unbelievable....

Omg I wonder how many stores that place stocked Glad no one was hurt or killed inside

@Mattfr8tr

3 ай бұрын

Yes glad no one was hurt. Our DC stocks 253 stores. I am sure the stores will be split up between KY, TX and MO

Guess my Dollar Tree store won’t be stocked anytime soon. What a mess. There insurance is going up.

@Timetravel1111

3 ай бұрын

Our insurance shouldn’t have to go up every time does a freaking storm!

@spiritanimal7516

3 ай бұрын

I work at a dollar tree and they said our shipments will be delayed until further notice

Good thing that warehouse was not in New York City or San Fransisco or Los Angeles or Chicogo or.............. Cheers.

@TiredMomma

3 ай бұрын

...or St. Louis

@Maddawwg45

3 ай бұрын

i live and work in southern , oklahoma there are several major warehouses around here Dollar Tree , Best Buy , Dotfoods , and Dollar General has there largest warehouse in Gene Autry OK not far from me its over 2 millions sq feet last i heard

Bendita naturaleza recuerden nada de lo que ay en este mundo es de nosotros

So expect prices to go up now

@AmyBethB

3 ай бұрын

Who cares! 2 people died last night.

@TheRealestHi

3 ай бұрын

And never come back down.

@branzilla1722

3 ай бұрын

Now it'll be $1.50 Tree

@caseykeldeo

3 ай бұрын

​@@AmyBethB four deaths so far. I agree honestly as an Okie. People here pick up, keep moving, they're incredibly resilient when it comes to these things and the communities come together. Our town had some minor damage and there's people already working to patch things up. It's the lives lost that hit the hardest.

That building is HUGE! It probably has it's own zip code! 😉😌

OMG, what a mess 😳. I hope all in that warehouse made it to their storm shelters.

@mikem6997

3 ай бұрын

You think dollar tree paid for storm shelters for their employees?

@krisdrinkwine6045

3 ай бұрын

@@mikem6997 you know, I watched it several times and didn't see any type of concrete shelters in there.

@TiredMomma

3 ай бұрын

That warehouse may be similar to how Amazon runs a warehouse, no tornado shelters, except I bet you anything Dollar Tree wouldn't dare to threaten their employees like Amazon does, to stay at work or lose their job, if they've got plenty of time to leave with an approaching tornadic storm.

what no looters!

@exspiravit6920

3 ай бұрын

Sheeeiiiiittt!!?? In a medium small rural area? Those mfkrs would have locals AND the local national guard there as armed guards. No looters bruh

Why would somebody say this is their judgment for raising their prices real smart

@GWD4060

3 ай бұрын

Ignorance

The Swift trailers were like that before the tornado

Dollar Tree might consider damage/salvage sale it works for Amazon.

No wonder it's no longer a dollar!!!

@PauloAdriano-zo2ng

3 ай бұрын

Everything's gonnabe *tree fiddy* now. 😅

Horrific

Dg can’t keep stores stocked now. We definitely goin to have shortage hmmm

@SM-mz1xl

3 ай бұрын

This isn’t DG

For starters, if I was the CEO, and if I had to choose a location to build a warehouse like THAT one, my choice would NOT have been in OK or any other location likely to experience tornados.

I drive by that warehouse all the time on my way to Ardmore, it was a huge warehouse may all that have been affected by the tornados make a full recovery.

People need to humble themselves and examine our lives, how can we love God the Father better and His Son and how can we love our neighbor as our selves.❤🕊✝️

I don't see how they can begin to clean All that up

Damn! Looks like that's the end of my employment there. I drove by as close as was allowed to today and I did not see all this destruction. I saw that it had been breached from the front side but all this top damage was not visible.

@Beach-Star-Experience-550-YT

3 ай бұрын

Ask for a transfer. If they have stores, maybe they can place you there for now.

Now called DIME TREE... 🤑🤑🤑

It would probably have closed soon anyway like the other stores. 7 in my area just did. God I just hope no one was killed.

@greglavers

3 ай бұрын

Yeah I read somewhere that they planned to close 100's of stores this year and as few more 100's in the following couple of years. I can't recall there actual counts.

Dam!!!😮

So a total loss of 10,000$? Oh so sorry 10,000,000$ based on what they charge to the people.

Why does that warehouse contruction seemed to be made of sheet metal and metal bars..... where's the concrete.... where's the steel. That shit was destroyed because it was literally made of sticks and hope.

Sending tons of love and prayers !! I used to live there when i was a little girl !!! ❤❤

I can prevent natural disasters from happening . I can also create weather proof infrastructure that is damage resistant and hell proof .

fuck. last thing they need..the tire plant is closing there to.

@kathleendanford9420

3 ай бұрын

Sorry sorry to hear as after a get tags got get tires. They going to break us all.

@jasminecalderon2658

3 ай бұрын

Is it really that bad in OK as far a finding employment?

@SamFagundes

3 ай бұрын

@@jasminecalderon2658they are referring to a big tire plant in a town right by merietta. its a big job provider for alot of homes in the area and brings good business. but they are leaving in some years as far as i know and the rest is gas stations,dealershops,fast food, or few doctor or nurse jobs if that. you have to have a plan growing up or know people who are in a field already to get going good in this area.

I thought these pictures were taken in Gaza !

Dollar Tree cant be doing too bad, that warehouse is freaking enormous! Hope everyone was safe at home when it went through.

Wow! Seeing this gives me the heebee geebees I work at one of the distribution facilities in California and our building is a replica of this so it’s very eerie to see this.

I don’t quite understand why anyone and any business would live or work in an area that regularly has devastating tornados…???

@stevebigansky9372

3 ай бұрын

because they "think" it's cheaper

@stevebigansky9372

3 ай бұрын

and they think it will never happen to them

@haydenheine6754

3 ай бұрын

Same could be said for coatal dwellers

@haydenheine6754

3 ай бұрын

We don't have tsunamis or hurricanes

@TheWirdbird

3 ай бұрын

Because life goes on, after an earthquake, a tsunami, a tornado. Life goes on.

Worker: Sir, our warehouse has been destroyed by a tornado CEO: how much did we loose? Worker: not much. All of our products cost 10-50 cents to make

So sad 😢😢😢😮😢

Praying for Dollar tree & praying for all the people that were affected by the tornado and all the people that are affected by the inflation and everything else that's going on

From Marietta Ga. Prayers for yall....😢

OMG!!! That place was huge!! Being in Oklahoma you would think the buildings would be built to withstand a tornado better, especially because in Oklahoma it’s something that happens more often than most other places. Sooo much damaged product. 😢

Wow! Utter devastation. So tragic. Praying for everyone 🙏

There goes the prices up up up😩😕

I thought it was just a normal unorganized dollar tree at first.

I am so sorry for the devastation. Love from Cspe Town.

Horrible Hope you guys recover soon God always bless America

Let the cities have it let them come and get what they need

@greglavers

3 ай бұрын

That would open Dollar Tree/Family Dollar up to lawsuits if someone got hurt. They can't just walk away from the ownership of the contents of this warehouse and skip legal; responsibility.

That’s like 800 dollars worth of stuff; let’s not get carried away.

@MS-jh4zt

3 ай бұрын

Fucking hilarious!

Words just fall short to discribe what I'm feeling while watching the pictures. Just breath taking . I'm so sorry😢

This was a very devastating time and everyones last that lived there and I pray that you are all okay❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Marietta,Oklahoma-site of the trashing of the dollar tree warehouse by a tornado 🌪️! 😮😮😮😮

Hopefully, some of these useful products will be donated as opposed to just trashed.

It was all headed to the landfill anyway. They just skipped the step of selling it to the customer.

@mrbillbill5626

3 ай бұрын

😂

@dimereseininrobbyravouvou2855

3 ай бұрын

really?????????? They all new products not preloved at all So you mean this tornadoes man made targeting new products shops factories businesses????????? Weird indeed

Don't know about the warehouse but I know them swift trucks were parked like that

2 months later i drove by this place and it was still in the same condition as the video shows. it was pretty cool to see

Insurance people be like. Yeeeetttt away from this earth.

Fastest a swift truck has ever gone 😅

God Bless the USA!🇱🇷Protect our veterans,children and elderly!

Did I see a Swift in there?!?

Wow, that Dollar Store must have lost at least $50 worth of goods.

I see Taylor Swift donating for the cause.Shes a woman with a big heart!

Wow, the damage must have run to dozens of dollars!

Those truck containers look like kids toys.

That warehouse was bigger than some small towns.

Gonna be 1 billion dollar tree after that

Gonna be the two dollar tree now

Holy shit that shop is bigger than the village I grew up in.

Maybe that's why Google is reporting the closing of 600 dollar tree stores 04/29/24

@lassiejr2115

3 ай бұрын

Ah that was announced over 2 weeks ago that was closing 600 stores this is just probably an update .

Guess the damage will be easily assessed. One dollar at a time.

Looks like the inside of most DGs to me. 🤷‍♂️

Dollar tree prices just went up

I work at a DT DC and I am almost sure that we will take on some their cases and stores. There is also a DC in Ky and TX that can help with stores too. I imagine that they might offer to temporally move people to other DCs. Our is always short handed

I wasn’t even 10 minutes away from this tornado

That warehouse was built like it was built by Dollar Tree, or should I say $1.59 Tree, now?

Well, it explains why it's not the dollar store no more!! In california, it's the $1.25 store. And then you find stuff in there for over ten dollars

Not blaming the tornado. SWIFT was in the yard, and that's about the time everything goes to shit.

@BaxterBlue

3 ай бұрын

Dang, ya beat me to it 😂😂😂

@soyoucametosee7860

3 ай бұрын

There are times for jokes and there is time to be serious. Guess you never learned the difference.

Now it’s going to be ten dollar tree

The building looked poorly built.

@Nwilliams09

3 ай бұрын

As a former worker, when the warehouse got quiet enough you could hear the OSHA

@greglavers

3 ай бұрын

Most do when hit by Tornadoes. It's been there for quite a while and has withstood many storms in Oklahoma. Same storm a small town named Sulphur was devastated.

Say hello to the 2 Dollar store

Just like families have to win their house goes up

Imagine working for them and watching this on television, when a call comes in, work asking if you can come in and help clean up a small mess, and also saying No Overtime!

Wow!!that warehouse is huge!!! Hope no one was working it ot at the time and for the jobs affected by its loss

Its only a building that can be rebuilt. Thank God its wasn't a bunch of people.

That has to be at least $75 in merchandise

Now all of that stuff is going to be on sale for 50 cents instead of a dollar