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Columbia Walmart back to normal - less than day after storm hit Twenty-four hours after the hit the store was filled with customers and no one would ever know anything out of the ordinary had happened unless they looked up where light would normally be streaming through and see remnants of broken skylights covered over. - LW By Linda Waggener One Associate who was at work during Friday evening's severe storm shared what it had been like when the Columbia Walmart was hit. Her memories were of working as usual with one ear to the worsening weather forecasts as the afternoon progressed and storms were tracked across Kentucky. When the tornado watch was changed to a tornado warning for Columbia, store manager Carla Thomas called 'Code Black' in the store. Associates are trained when they hear that, warning of the potential for severe weather, to gather pillows and assist customers into the Site-to-Store designated safe area of the store. Associates and customers together made for a group of about 125 people in the section of the store where usually a few are in and out to pick up their orders placed over the internet. She described the roar of the storm with the sudden sound of hundreds of machine guns aiming bullets straight down into the store with large hail hitting the metal roof and then knocking out many of the skylights and sending hail onto the floor of the store. One other sound she remembered was that of voices praying for protection. She said that after it was safe to walk back into the store "it looked like a war zone with water and hail all over the floor." Hail the sizes of golf balls and softballs and even some flat pieces of ice "had banked outside the entrances "as if a big snow had happened in minutes." Customers walked out to see their vehicles dented from the hail. Twenty-four hours after the hit the store was filled with customers and no one would ever know anything out of the ordinary had happened unless they looked up where light would normally be streaming through and see remnants of broken skylights covered over. The Associates talking to each other in quiet tones said the store was back to normal because their fellow Associates from Glasgow, Campbellsville and Tompkinsville Walmart stores immediately came together just like they always do in emergencies or in loss to keep the stores going. "It's quite a family to be part of" said one with twelve years experience to the other with seventeen years." This story was posted on 2012-03-03 21:50:53
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