So my auntiedonna was in the LA Times. She was in the midst of the crazy weather and tornados a few weeks ago. Here is what was printed:
Numerous twisters have already dealt heavy damage across the Midwest and South this year. They include a February cluster that killed more than 50 people in Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama, and a March tornado that roared through the heart of Atlanta, damaging the Georgia Dome and injuring dozens.Some survivors of this weekend's storms, including one California transplant, said they won't soon forget them.Ladonna Peeples and her husband were relaxing Saturday in their log cabin in Neosho when their phone rang. It was their son and daughter-in-law, calling from a nearby Lowe's."They said that they were hiding in the store's shelter, that a tornado was coming and we needed to hide," said Peeples, 47, a real estate agent who moved to Missouri from California's Merced County four years ago.By the time Peeples rounded everyone up -- her mother was visiting from California -- "there was hail the size of grapefruit coming down and the sky was rotating," she said.When the storm had passed, the Peeples' home was one of two still standing in her neighborhood. Her in-laws' trailer was splintered rubble. So were two of the houses that she had just listed for sale. "My son ran over here last night afterward, climbing over trees and racing to make sure we were OK," Peeples said. "This morning, he showed up with a chain saw . . . and carrying a Mother's Day gift." It was a cookbook, filled with recipes of Southern comfort food."As soon as the power comes back, I'm going to start cooking," Peeples said. "I'm a stress cooker, and right now, I'm about as stressed out as I've ever been."
When I heard what happened to them, I was sooooo freaked out. My grama was there, and the house they had previously lived in was completly taken away. I am just sooo glad they are fine and that there house was still standing after it all. CRAZY CRAZY!
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