A line of thunderstorms swept over Birmingham (Ala.) Wednesday night, accompanied by lightning, high winds and over and inch and one-half of rain in two hours. The storm shattered the front glass door of Apple store at The Summit, but no one was injured.
Here’s the radar view at 7:30 p.m. local time, with the red color indicating the most severe area of the storm.
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What to do about the glass. It looks gorgeous, especially the newest stores without window displays, but it’s an Achilles heel for the stores. Robbers throw pipe wrenches through them, high winds (Sydney) crack it, and not the window “shattered” because of inclement weather. What about doing something like car windshields and laminating the glass? That would at least stop the later two incidents, and maybe at least slow down the criminals enough to be caught.
-Brian
A good solution may be the polycarbonate glass, almost unbreakable and excellent clarity…