TREVOR FREEZE
With a tornado bearing down on their home, Darrell and Tricia gathered their three children—ages 11, 10 and 8—stuffing everyone into an interior closet just like the safety videos would suggest.
But the EF-4 twister with winds estimated at 175 mph lifted the framed home some 50 feet off the ground—with all five still inside the closet—and carried it about 400 yards before it exploded into pieces.
Had it carried the home just 40 more feet, it would have landed in a nearby pond and Darrell is convinced his family would not have survived.
He is convinced the Lord was watching over his family.
