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Holy Crap... Yesterday, I had the most exciting hour of my life! Here in the Cincinnati area we were having major winds. My wife and I work at the Home Depot and she was already there and I was just pulling into the drive way. The first thing I saw was the black tarp part of the ceiling bubbled a good 30 feet on the ceiling. I thought 'holy crap!' so I park and start jogging toward the building to let someone know, and when I get about half way to the building I hear "pop pop pop" and the tarp rips strait in the air and slams back down on the roof and then blows off the back. Scrapnel and chunks of ceiling start flying over the parking lot and over the highway behind it. I was shocked, and then I see people start running and screaming from the building, led by my wonderful, yet cowardly wife. She says "Don't go in there, the roof is coming off" and I say "I know I know" and so I go in (yeah, I'm a guy). People are just standing around all shocked and start explaining what they saw from the inside. Apparently when the wind took the tarp off, it was attached to piping and such, and so suddenly the echoing pops starting pulling all the piping in the ceiling through the ceiling (and some piping wound up in the parking lot). A 15 foot chunk of the ceiling was taken off over the Lumber area and a bunch of other little holes where the piping had been. Some piping that remained got brent and twisted. The main water main busted and gas pipes busted also, so gas started leaking and water was spraying everywhere. We then lost power and it went black, and the generators kicked in giving everything the odd orange glow. And all the while, the ceiling continues to crack and beat down on us.
So those of us employees brave enough to think started running through the building finding customers and directing them to leave immediately. I found a frail old guy toward the back who became completely disoriented and couldn't think properly to do anything, so I had to help him through the building and help him frind his car. We all had to get in our cars as the 911 people showed up and we stayed there for a long while until finally we were all pulled together and told to just go home. I came home and just enjoyed the day off. This morning I get a call from my HR manager telling me that I'm going to be working in another store until ours is fixed, which could be anywhere from 3 days to 3 weeks. So I go in tomorrow.
Man, it was insane. I totally loved it!!!
So those of us employees brave enough to think started running through the building finding customers and directing them to leave immediately. I found a frail old guy toward the back who became completely disoriented and couldn't think properly to do anything, so I had to help him through the building and help him frind his car. We all had to get in our cars as the 911 people showed up and we stayed there for a long while until finally we were all pulled together and told to just go home. I came home and just enjoyed the day off. This morning I get a call from my HR manager telling me that I'm going to be working in another store until ours is fixed, which could be anywhere from 3 days to 3 weeks. So I go in tomorrow.
Man, it was insane. I totally loved it!!!
