when they all tried to find any neighbor s house, any neighbor s bathroom, any neighbor s shed that was still standing and they would move over hours. you re talking more than a day and a half from house to house, from room to room, pulling mattresses off of beds to hold together windows and doors so they wouldn t blow open. all the time trying to shelter the most vulnerable among them, the elderly and the children. i want you to hear now from sherri roberts and her experience. take a listen. it s not just us. no, it s everybody. everybody is hurting. we re not any worse than anybody else. everybody is hurting. we thank god for life. we ve got each other and we thank god for life. god is good. through it all, god is good. reporter: and you were with your family when you went through the storm? yes. yes. reporter: you have children? yes, we will be okay. we will be okay. reporter: any children here with you? my grandson.
than anybody else. everybody is hurting. and we thank god for life. we thank god for each other and for life. through it all, god is good. you were with your family when you went through the storm? yes. yes. you have two children. yes, we will be okay. do you have children here with you. my grandson. my husband. i think i met your daughter christine? yes, yes. what was it like to ride out the storm. words can t describe it. i don t wish it on nobody. nobody. words can t describe it. they could never categorize this. it was like anatomic bomb went off. it just
215-mile-an-hour winds gusting, and that s when their wind meter broke. they have no idea. it is something like they have not seen and they are trying to pick up the pieces of their lives as you can imagine. i want you to hear now from sherri roberts, just one of dozens of stories that we heard about trying to get through the storm. take a listen. it s not just us. no, it s everybody. everybody is hurting. we re not any worse than anybody else. everybody is hurting. and we thank god for life. we ve got each other and we thank god for life. god is good. through it all, god is good. reporter: you were with your family when you went through the storm? yes. yes. reporter: you have children? yes, we will be okay. we will. reporter: any children here with you? my grandson. reporter: i see, right. and my husband. reporter: hi there. i think i met your daughter,
horrible choice, that has now led to, potentially, to two deaths. it hurts, hurts a lot every day. surreal. i remember just staring at the programs with his picture and bradley kolman and the dates and just like telling myself, you re at brad s funeral right now. it became upsettingly familiar. i mean, i felt too comfortable at the at a funeral setting and i realized, this is just not this isn t fair. i ve i m getting too good at receiving bad news. reporter: through it all, the
country. you ran towards the wreckage into a ball of flames like frankly nobody in this country had ever seen. you searched for survivors. he went back day after day and night after night to save lives and return the fallen to their families to rebuild and recover and to show the entire world that nothing will ever break america s spirit. over the last two decades, you have endured hardship with amazing grace and incredible grid. through it all, you care, and you work, and you love, and you will always remember all of those great families. you lift up our communities, and you remind us all what it means to stand united as one nation under god. for your entire life, you have done far beyond your duty to us,