April 18, 2011

HEROISM AT THE HARDWARE STORE: STAFF SAVE DOZENS FROM TWISTER

More than 100 employees and customers at a home improvement store, crammed shoulder-to-shoulder seeking safety from solitary of the deadly storms that rip through the South, screamed in near unison once the steel roof curled off overhead, the store's manager said Sunday.


They all made it out alive Saturday, thanks to quick action by Lowe's store administrator Michael Hollowell and his employees, who carried out an urgent situation response plan they had learned. They herd all and sundry to the windowless rear area of the store, away from the through hit out front.

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