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Three days of severe weather trekked through the US on April 22-24 leaving behind a trail of death and destruction, as well as a few amazing stories of survival, fatalities and other strange incidents that occurred.
The tornadoes on Wednesday that ripped through Polk County, Texas, about 75 miles northeast of Houston devastated the town of Onalaska, Texas. Numerous homes were destroyed, and some people survived by huddling inside a bathtub while the house around them was torn apart.
At one home, which was completely destroyed, a woman’s son was staying in a travel trailer on the property. When the tornado struck, the travel trailer flipped twice, ending up upside down. A man and his dog were inside. Miraculously, they survived. “God was with us all, that’s all I can say,” the man’s mother said.
While some people are out searching for the best anti-aging serums, one 87-year-old woman proved she was too tough to die just yet. A tornado struck her mobile home, first dropping a TV on top of her and trapping her in the bed. She managed to get the TV off of her.
As soon as she did, the tornado tossed her outside. She landed some 20 feet away under a bush. Her mobile home was shredded and was distributed in pieces over a hundred feet away. Her son, who lives next door, had the roof ripped off his home. He went out and searched for his mother and found her bleeding badly.
She had a golf ball-sized hole in her leg, as well as a 3-inch piece of glass embedded under her skin. He tied off her leg to try stopping the bleeding until help arrived. The son remarked that the very next thing he found after finding his mother was her Bible. They took it as a sign from God that He is always with you and wasn’t her time to go.
A family in Alabama was turned away from their local storm shelter as a tornado was bearing down on the community because they didn’t have masks. The family says when they arrived at the shelter a man opened the door and asked if they had masks.
“The guy actually opened the door, he motioned, ‘do you have a mask?’” the woman explained. “I held up one mask. I said ‘I have one mask I can put it on the child.’ He motioned no and shut the door.”
With no other options available, the woman took her children back to her vehicle and headed back toward her home. The woman claimed that the shelter was nowhere near full and emphasized that her family could have stayed six feet away from the other people inside.
The town Mayor had issued a Facebook post saying that everyone had to have a mask to enter the storm shelter. However, the Mayor clarified that any type of mask that covers your nose and mouth is acceptable, whether it be medical masks, homemade mask, or a bandanna.
