Roof collapses on a Toys'r'Us store in Maryland

mf_dolphin · #1 Postby **mf_dolphin** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 12:35 pm

Not much information out yet but people are reported trapped inside.

sunny shine · #2 Postby **sunny shine** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 12:37 pm

Oh goodness!! That means there are alot of children in there! I hope everything turns out fine with this one.

mf_dolphin · #3 Postby **mf_dolphin** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 12:39 pm

latest news is that 40% of the roof collapsed due to snow and rain. No word yet on casualties.

sunny shine · #4 Postby **sunny shine** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 12:49 pm

Well you keep us informed okay? This is indeed very disheartening.

Rob-TheStormChaser · #5 Postby **Rob-TheStormChaser** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 1:31 pm

There's been many collapses here locally as well...the rains on top of all this snow will only cause more reports like this to be popping up.

#6 Postby **bfez1** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 1:54 pm

Another disaster---- this is almost unreal

One after the other, lately

#7 Postby **coriolis** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 2:11 pm

bfez, I was thinking the same. It's been one after another.
I've been getting my news here as much as on TV.

chadtm80 · #8 Postby **chadtm80** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 2:21 pm

So sad

southerngale · #9 Postby **southerngale** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 3:21 pm

How terrible!

I heard that 3 out of the 10 employees working were hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries and they don't know how many customers were shopping. I heard an estimate of maybe 50. Apparently, it was a light shopping day because of the weather. Thank God! One lady was in there with her 2 children and her mother and she said they had to walk circles around the rubble to get out. She said there was a loud roaring sound and then you could see the sky beams falling. For a moment she thought they were going to die. They don't know if or how many people are trapped inside. Rescue workers plan to use dogs and thermal imaging to see whether people are trapped under the collapsed roof.

My oh my!

If anyone else hears anything new, let us know. I pray nobody was killed.

weatherlover427 · #10 Postby **weatherlover427** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:34 pm

This is such sad news!

:o Here is a story on the disaster:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2& ... e_collapse

JQ Public · #11 Postby **JQ Public** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 2:51 am

I heard about it! Good thing no one was seriously hurt! We can thank bad weather, and a bad economy for that though

southerngale · #12 Postby **southerngale** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 3:20 am

Bad economy? :?

JQ Public · #13 Postby **JQ Public** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 7:58 pm

not many people were shopping

southerngale · #14 Postby **southerngale** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 8:39 pm

Well, I don't think there were too many people shopping because the weather was so bad. I don't think the economy had anything to do with it. :wink:

JQ Public · #15 Postby **JQ Public** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 8:48 pm

I know...just was trying to see if anyone would respond to what i said.

southerngale · #16 Postby **southerngale** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 8:55 pm

LOL JQ!

JQ Public · #17 Postby **JQ Public** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 9:17 pm

hehe i try

Roof collapses on a Toys'r'Us store in Maryland

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