Tornado warning (rant)

[AK907]

The other night at work we were having one heck of a storm. Power was in and out, my co-workers motorcycle was thrown across the parking lot and another co-workers car was damaged by a flying trash can from a powerful downburst. Really nasty stuff, but we're all ok. Now here is what irks me:

A little after 9:00pm a couple customers come in and talk about how a tornado just touched down not far from where I work. No sooner did they finish telling us the sirens went off. The manager proceeds to kick these poor people out of the store as well as another family who pulled in to seek shelter right after the sirens went off and locks them out of the store!

WHAT THE ??? Tornado sirens are blaring and you are kicking these people out of the store? None of my other co-workers seemed to care. I was the only one who had an issue with this besides the families being thrown out.

I was told they were locked out because of "liability". If a tornado hit us and they were injured we could be sued. Ok, then why can't they sue us for NOT offering them shelter? Makes about as much sense to me.

What the kind of world do we live in nowadays where you can sue somebody for them letting you take shelter during a storm? If I were the judge on that one I would laugh at the people and tell them to GTFO.

The tornado did not hit us, thankfully, but that is no excuse for the careless, cold hearted actions of my manager.