"To Impact Plastic's knowledge, no one was ever trapped in the building or on its premises," O'Connor said.

"Impact's first shift began at 7:00 AM on the morning of September 27, 2024, as usual. At that time, there had been no flooding alert or warning. Written evacuation plans were posted in conspicuous areas of the plant many months prior to September 27th, 2024.

Impact Plastic's Inc. ("Impact Plastics") parking lot is in a low-lying area between South Industrial Drive and the plant building. Runoff from adjacent properties and surrounding property often pools in its parking lot during or after heavy rain and often necessitates employees and other visitors at the plant to move their cars.

Water began to pool in the parking lot around 10:35 AM on the morning of September 27th, 2024, which is not an unusual occurrence. Public warnings were disseminated via cell phones at approximately 10:40 AM, coinciding with a power outage occurring at 10:39 AM.

A decision was made within minutes of the power outage to shut the plant down and dismiss all employees including supervisors. Employees were directed to leave the plant property within minutes of the power outage and certainly no later than 10:50 AM. Bilingual employees translated the announcement in Spanish. Senior management conducted a walkthrough of the facility and attempted to move the company's server and other important documents. They exited the building around 11:35 and were the last individuals to leave.

Subsequent analysis of recorded video footage and photographs has identified both current and missing employees who left the property of Impact Plastics and remained on South Industrial Drive for approximately 45 minutes after the plant's closure.

This group has since been either rescued or reported as missing or deceased. Review also indicates that when employees were dismissed as water was pooling in Impact Plastic's parking lot, but South Industrial Drive, in front of the plant appears to have been passable. The water pooled in the parking lot was approximately six inches deep as indicated by the water level shown at the bottom of small passenger cars parked at the time reviewed by the company.

To Impact Plastic's knowledge, no one was ever trapped in the building or on its premises.

Impact Plastics is aware of the allegations circulated on social media that employees who asked to leave were told not to leave by their supervisors and that supervisors left the plant before other plant employees were dismissed. The allegations are false. Impact did not prohibit its employees from leaving. It did not threaten anyone with discharge from employment. Its senior management were the last, not the first, to leave. Senior management was the last to leave

approximately 45-minutes after the plant had been closed and all other employees had been dismissed. Impact Plastics made decisions based on the information available at the time.

In times like these, words feel inadequate to express the depth of sorrow we are all feeling. The recent flood has devastated our plant and, more tragically, taken the lives of some of our dear colleagues and friends. Our hearts go out to their families and loved ones.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/turkey-blocks-instant-messaging-platform-groomercord-2024-10-09/

Turkey has blocked access to instant messaging platform Groomercord in line with a court decision after the platform refused to share information demanded by Ankara, Turkish authorities said on Wednesday.

"We are aware of reports of Groomercord being unreachable in Russia and Turkey. Our team is investigating these reports at this time," the San Francisco-based company said in a status update.

Turkey's Information Technologies and Communication Authority published the access ban decision on its website.

Justice minister Yilmaz Tunc said an Ankara court decided to block access to Groomercord from Turkey due to sufficient suspicion that crimes of "child sexual abuse and obscenity" had been committed by some using the platform.

The block comes after public outrage in Turkey caused by the murder of two women by a 19-year-old man in Istanbul this month. Content on social media showed Groomercord users subsequently praising the killing.

Transport and infrastructure minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said the nature of the Groomercord platform made it difficult for authorities to monitor and intervene when illegal or criminal content is shared.

"Security personnel cannot go through the content. We can only intervene when users complain to us about content shared there," he told reporters in parliament.

"Since Groomercord refuses to share its own information, including IP addresses and content, with our security units, we were forced to block access."

On Tuesday, Russia's communications regulator blocked Groomercord for violating Russian law, after previously fining the company for failing to remove banned content, the TASS news agency reported.

Thank God the government is telling people what software they're allowed to use. For their own good, of course.

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Over the past few weeks, you've probably heard somewhere that Earth was going to get a second moon. Well, we can now confirm that Earth now officially has two moons after capturing asteroid 2024 PT5.

On Sunday, September 29, our planet captured the tiny asteroid named 2024 PT5, turning it into a temporary mini-moon.

This intriguing event was first spotted by astronomers at the Complutense University of Madrid. Richard Binzel, an astronomer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), shared some insights about these celestial visitors.

"These happen with some frequency, but we rarely see them because they're very small and very hard to detect," Binzel said. "Only recently has our survey capability reached the point of spotting them routinely."

Using a powerful telescope located in Sutherland, South Africa, the team from Complutense University detected the small space rock back in August.

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Spiderman has been waiting for this moment for his whole life. pic.twitter.com/8F8vDMogET

— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) October 7, 2024

He's acting like a jackass at the Mets game. Probably drunk.