there and when the tornado hit we had no light in there until a gentleman turned on their camera -- their cell phones and gave us a little bit of light. it was a standard six-foot-high dirt floor and just what you imagine as a storm cellar would have been. built back in the early '40s and late '30s, and then typical farm style cellar and the -- to me it was quaint. >> but listen. siez you hear the sounds -- first of all-what did the tornado itself sound like, and then did you feel and hear the crashing of the structure around you? >> yes yes. when the tornado hit two minutes after we closed the door it was like a train rolling right over the top of us. and we got a dust shower. everybody down there got a dust shower, and then it was total silence. and that was the eerie part.