“I was taking the flag down and then it got real bad and I thought, well, I better get in the house. As soon as I shut the door, it just started getting crazy.”
Leavitt heard what many tornado survivors describe as the sound of a train. As he started to make his way into a hallway to get into a bathroom, he looked back over his shoulder.
“The roof behind me was lifted up and you could see the circles (of insulation), you could see the tornado,” Leavitt said. “It was just ripping the roof off right behind me...the whole roof just disappeared. It pulled a cement block wall down.”