Scare the people more, cause they're not scared enough already!

That would be very scary. I'm surprised that they saidthat to them. That would have made me terrified. It's so sad that the mployee didn't have a better way of handling the situation.

People often don't know what to say or how to be diplomatic when they are in an emergency situation. The employee was probably using the words that they thought would get those customers to MOVE! Some people are like cattle, they just stand there and assume everything will be alright--those are the ones you have to scare for their own good. But a more experienced person might have said "A tornado has touched down and for your own safety we're asking you to move to the back of the store." But I don't know if I would have thought of that. It's easy to be an armchair critic once the crisis is past.

Personally to me, this was a little overboard and should never have been said. Yes, tornado's are nothing to be reckoned with, and not a Fun thing to have to experience but should you not try to keep everyone calm in case of one? I know if it was me, I would feel a little irritated and wonder why they cannot be more calm in explaining theirself instead of trying to scare everyone a little more.

I'm just relieved that we don't get tornado problems here too often. I've seen tornado videos and it was awful. All I know is I don't wanna be in that situation when something like that happens.

Yeah that's not going to cause people to freak out and cause the potential for more problems. Then again, it doesn't really matter where you go or what you do during a tornado to begin with. A force of nature is going to take down any force really made of man. All of those safety tips....yeah they'll make you absolutely going to make you a bit more safe, but it is rather not going to be the most foolproof thing at all. But then again, there are many ways to warn people of the danger, without freaking them out. Because there are going to be people who are going to freak out anyway even when they get past the tornado watch stage. Of course, if the customers want to take their chances, then that is their own head. There are just going to be many times where people take disasters either too likely or they panic beyond all belief, which can be just as dangerous.

yeah people should pay heed to these warnings very seriously and they ought to be scared because only then will they follow whatever is being said. In emergency, scare becomes the driving force for most of us and we do the required within no time. But many a times people give false information to the police regarding the position of bombs and all which really scares a lot of people and is totally uncalled for.

Oh that would be awful, I guess in a way some people would need a bit of a scare tactic to make them move but that would be scary.

They did that where I worked at too except we just had employees there..no customers. I work in a factory and there were people so scared they were ready to cry. If that production line stops, it must be serious. They were closing the schools early here too! It was scary. After about 20 minutes they released us back to work. I think I stayed up until midnight. Some places got hit pretty hard but thank goodness it missed us here. At least in this area. I know there are a lot of people out there that are suffering a hit though. My heart goes out to them and how scared they must have been.

I think there are certain situations that we need to use fear to make people do things. Some people would listen if they are made aware of the gravity of a situation. Sometimes just telling them just won't cut. You need to come up with something that would motivate them to act. And fear is really one of the powerful motivators there is.

The manager's words must have been alarming and he would have exaggerated a bit.But it is better to be safe than sorry.If there is loss of human lives it is the store who'll receive the blame,hence they took every precaution to transfer the people to a safe part of the store.It would have caused a scare and alarm even among the bold ones,but that alarm was for the common good of all.