More Tornado Survivors
Johnny Hannah on the back porch of his home after a tornado came through the area Tuesday afternoon, May 24, 2011, He and his wife, Beth escaped injury when they went inside an underground shelter in their garage. Photo by Jim Beckel, The Oklahoman
Ann Smith talks with friends in front of what is left of her house after a tornado-spawning storm swept through the state on Tuesday, May 24, 2011, in Washington, Okla. She and her husband were in an outside storm shelter when the storm destroyed their rural home. Photo by Steve Sisney, The Oklahoman
Bryan Stout walks past the tree that temporarily blocked his family’s exit from the storm shelter where they rode out a tornado-spawning storm on Tuesday, May 24, 2011, in Newcastle, Okla. Photo by Steve Sisney, The Oklahoman.
The above photos are great examples of surviving a natural disaster because they chose to prepare. They are from an article that starts off like this:
Cheryl Mayo and 14 other people huddled in a shelter as a monstrous tornado churned overhead late Tuesday afternoon.
The tornado blew open the door of the storm shelter, Mayo said about 30 minutes after the storm passed by. “As soon as it blew the lid open you could see that the house was gone.
