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I saw these 2 men standing beside what used to be a home with a huge 10 - 12 foot pile of debris, lumber, metal, concrete, etc., behind them, even an upside down truck or vehicle thrown on it and right there in front of that huge pile was the opening to the tiny underground storm shelter that saved their lives and that of their neighbors'. It was pretty clear that that pile of debris was stuff from other homes too.

One tree had been debarked and had a few limbs left on it and driven onto those limbs of the tree and driven up into its trunk was a big slab of plywood, stuck there with limbs sticking through it! It had slammed so fast into that tree, the few limbs actually pierced that plywood rather than break themselves!

Once when McKinney, Texas had a bad tornado, my father drove us up to see my aunt and uncle living there. They were fine and so was their house but neighbors had lost their homes all around. We saw a telephone pole with a broom driven through it. I'll never forget that sight among all the devastation, that stuck in my memory.