My friend carried me to my mother, who then carried me to the car parked about 1/2 mile or so away. I unfortunately got sucked into one of them.The most severe Tornado was an EF3 that was on the ground for 30 minutes and 15 miles. Power lines are down and trees are down this is really dangerous, Dallas County Probate Judge Jimmy Nunn said during a news conference. When I couldn't hear it any more, I finally left the basement. The door flew open and I look outside while we are interlocking arms to make sure we try to stay together. We were hollaring out to God for help & he helped us! The tornado was in our back yard! It busted out their windshields and the car got picked up and thrown in a ditch. ya gc qg uc ur mr. or. Some of the vinyl siding had holes. He would go to Wisconsin and Michigan to fish whenever he could get away. The Andrews had just a bought a puppy for their children. Except I couldn't swim so my mum lifted me up and carried me. I tried to soothe him, but then the house took a direct hit of lightning and suddenly I was frightened, too. Bernice was found dead with the puppy still in her arms. Did you encounter any technical issues? On Friday, Ivey said she would reach out to President Joe Biden to encourage him to declare a state of emergency. Very few injuries or fatalities occurred. When you live in Tornado alley it is drilled into your head what to look, feel, hear, and even smell for regarding a tornado. It was still so calm and then the sirens started to go off. Severe storms and more than 2 dozen tornadoes hit Southeast. Alfred drove a forklift for Caterpillar in Joliet. It touched down less than a mile from us. The kicker was taking the cover off the pool and the plastic side rails looked like swiss cheese! I lived in a apartment in a house with a double wall, a sound proof wall that separated my apartment from my neighbors. I asked if he and his wife, or "ole lady" as he called her,were ok. Around 10:45 am, my neighbor of few words sent a text that read "hey, bubba-tree on your bedroom. We started the journey to the basement and upon getting down the stairs, saw the basement was completely flooded except for one small spot in the far corner that was on a hill. On this day storms were everywhere and sirens were going off. It was an unforgettable event. The hail within it was chomping up the branches of shrub oak and Ponderosa pine, mixing them with blasted up dirt and grass, and spewing them out like missiles. This now is our storm. He lived on Harnew Road East. Words cannot describe what it felt like. My nana, who unfortunately would be in another massive tornado in Mossy Grove, TN, several years later, was terrified of storms. Just one county to the west, a huge tornado caused widespread destruction in the Alabama city of Selma, known for its role in the civil rights movement and home to about 17,000 people. All of us do really. I couldn't even speak. In northeast Mississippi, several buildings lay flattened or severely damaged in Monroe County after a storm passed through Thursday morning, video tweeted by the states emergency management agency shows. Two-year-old Cathy and her sister Barbara, 4, turned up in the hospital. He was the father of three children. At a Selma . A woman was killed as she shielded her baby in a tub, another was killed when her R.V. Turns out the toilet had just been set on the wax ring and caulked to the floor, not one bolt in the slab. Tim Samaras, 55, was found dead still belted into the mangled wreck, while the bodies of his son, 24, and Young, 45, were flung a quarter-mile away in opposite directions." At least seven people were killed in central Alabamas Autauga County, with two others including a 5-year-old boy killed in Georgia, officials said. Everyone was panicking. Our street was littered with paper, siding, tree limbs, etc., but we sustained very minor damage over all. Tornado victims: Pictures emerge as fears grow it . In less than 45 minutes, the National Guard was there and had declared martial law. PLEASE note that we have permission to print your story online and let us know the town and state and the month and year of the event. A damaged home is seen in the aftermath of severe weather Thursday near Prattville, Alabama. No noise. We were blessed and spared that day. We have always been sad that our kids and grandkids did not get to know him.. To the west/southwest it was pitch black moving towards us quickly, otherwise the sky was blue everywhere else. Roofing companies were going door to door. Email us at exclusive@the-sun.com or call 212 416 4552. like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TheSunUS and follow us from our main Twitter account at @TheSunUS, 2020 THE SUN, US, INC. 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My cell phone rang and my parents had been coming back to town right about where the storm began. Poor Nana was at church that night along with a bunch of other family and my cousin Linda got up with her newborn to get a drink from the water fountain near the entrance. She ran and dove into the pews while the tornado moved and twisted the church off its foundation. There were so many screams.. ". None. That was the scariest drive ever. The first tornado passed but now the second one was headed our way. It showed two apparent victims bound with their arms behind their backs and tape over their mouths. SHREVEPORT, La. She was very pretty, her sister-in-law said. My baby was asleep in a west-facing bedroom, Mom and Dad had gone shopping, and I thought the storm clouds in the west looked like they might bring hail. The lights didn't work. It had been so dense with hail that it showed up on radar as solid- just like the earth itself. It caused me to shake head to toe, and that shaking continued on from April 12 until the day I met my girlfriend in early August. All I could think of was get to a low spot. There was none. The pressure waves left and we were ok. We had been hugging through the entire event and Terry asked if it was over. The storms marked the latest bout of severe weather to turn deadly in the US as experts point to the human-induced climate crisis as a cause for such extreme events. Now in Oklahoma when I was a kid, if the sirens went off you went outside first to try and get a look before taking shelter. Roof, metal,and rocks. The actual hail looked like it was grapefruit sized and went on just as long as the storm across town. He was an electrician for Pullman Standard Co. "Nothing is more scarier than knowing a tornado is heading your way and hearing your kids freaked out and thinking we are going to die.. It was dead still and all the lights were off because power had been knocked out. Searches continued Friday in Autauga County as officials still werent sure everyone who may have lived in damaged homes was accounted for, state emergency management official Ricky Adams told CNN Friday. What a foolish thing to say, especially since Mossy Grove almost got hit again later but the skies showed mercy that day and settled down almost as if it took pity on us and our non-Walmart or McDonalds town. When she got home, her husband and the couples three young daughters were gone. I rounded the carport and flung open the door and just like I would any other day, kinda flung it behind my back to close it with three fingers, only to have it meet the wind and come back on me. We were out of town when a hailstorm hit McAllen, Texas, in 2010 or 2011. "The . I was so froze in fear so my father drove to me just to let me follow him home. He grabbed his little daughter under his arm and bolted to his house. Turned out the tornado did not touch down fully in the park, but still threw a carport into a neighboring car and tipped a tree to the point you couldnt go up the road in any type of vehicle. My next thought was get to an interior hall so I ran to the bathroom, laid down on the floor and grabbed the toilet knowing it was bolted to the ground. zo tr vs gj en kt. Usually you hear thunder. Atchley was a widow who lived at 4344 S. Francisco Ave. in Chicago. The delay caused him to be late coming home, putting him in the tornados path. Columbia-St. David's Round Rock Hospital said it had received 14 tornado victims from Cedar Park, . My car, parked outside, was bent and hammered mercilessly, yet all the glass survived; while the rear end of the same neighbor's car was hammered only lightly, as it was inside their garage and the hail had only come in through the windows of the garage door; but both tail lights and the back window were broken out. Meghan suffered broken bones, a brain injury, and a large cut, while dad Trey, 37, suffered cuts and bruises. All I see is rain and what appeared to be smoke swirling around. Their neighbors ran to the scene. Very disturbing, especially with continuous lightning but NO thunder. Similarly, our furniture on the upper deck ended up shoved together in a pile against the south railing. No injuries were reported there, the agency said. It took about 2 years or so to get all the roofing jobs done in town. My mind was racing with a million thoughts, regrets, prayers, etc., but I still noticed the pressure change and could feel air from under the door as it blew in towards me, then sucked back out of the room. My father's friend, who owned the property, told me the following story the day after the storm while he was recovering from injuries in the hospital. 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