Severe Weather

The federal workplace safety agency has been investigating the deaths of six people at the facility since a tornado hit it in December.

There aren’t local or statewide rules in Illinois ensuring workers in the nearly 30 warehouses surrounding the Amazon facility that collapsed in December will be any safer the next time a tornado strikes the St. Louis region.

The average estimated cost of a new warehouse building in Edwardsville was more than $16 million in the past five years. A tornado shelter adds less than 2% to that overall cost.

Some areas of the St. Louis region could end up with 10 inches of snow.

Missourians are preparing for a severe winter storm that forecasters expect to hit the St. Louis area by Tuesday evening. It has the potential to blanket the region with sleet, ice and nearly a foot of snow over multiple days.

Six people died when a tornado hit the Amazon warehouse, which labor advocates say highlighted the unsafe working conditions at the company.

The six people were killed when a tornado hit an Amazon warehouse, causing it to collapse.

Missouri and Illinois have few state regulations directly related to tornado safety. Some elected officials are now questioning whether current building requirements are enough to protect residents from powerful storms.

Local agencies are already examining if there were any structural issues with the building and how a tornado’s trajectory may have affected parts of the warehouse.

The sirens started a little before 8 p.m. on the last night of February. Residents of Perry County, in southeastern Missouri, retreated to their basements…