a brief pause to thank all of the local community support and volunteers. we are humbled beyond belief in this county. we have received it is it is very humbling. it is very humbling. and we are respectfully very grateful. we can t lose hope for anybody in this community. that s not what we re here for. we re here to find those people. this fellow was saved, but his wife passed away. this guy was saved and his wife passed away. this guy lived and his wife died, which we were on the school board together for about 30 years. my house is match sticks. there s nothing left. it ripped the roof off. and that s i thank god for that because if the roof had still been on, the house filled up with mud and water, we would
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we were under water and mud. and we had mud in every orifice. and the house was moving. and i just remember thinking, okay, creator, if this is it, i might as well relax. and i just let myself go limp. how long did it go on for? couldn t have been more than 30 seconds. that fast, really? from the time it hit us until we landed. and i understand it actually ripped your house off the foundation. my house is match sticks. there s nothing left. it ripped the roof off. and i thank god for that. because if the roof had still been on, the house filled up with mud and water, we would have drowned. the only way we got out is we dug the stuff out of our nose and mouth so we could breathe, but i was able to pick my way through debris and get up to the top and call for my friend, yeddi from holland, my student who was with me for a week.
and i said oh, my god and then it hit us. what happened when it hit you? what did it feel like? could you actually see the mud as it came up to the house? i didn t see it hit us. i hit so fast that we went down. we were under water and mud. and we had mud in every orifice. and the house was moving. and i just remember thinking, okay, creator, if this is it, i might as well relax. and i just let myself go limp. how long did it go on for? couldn t have been more than 30 seconds. that fast, really? from the time it hit us until we landed. and i understand it actually ripped your house off the foundation. my house is match sticks. there s nothing left. it ripped the roof off. and i thank god for that. because if the roof had still been on, the house filled up with mud and water, we would have drowned.
plinterred and uprooted. the damage is widespread. dallas county sheriff lupe valdez tells cnn her ofrszs are going house to house, checking on casualties until warnings that more severe storms were on the way. the emergency lasted for hours. this call came into cnn over two hours ago. if you go north, there s warnings all over the place. it s raining. people are scrambling to try to get out of the offices just to get home, and now it s caused a big problem, a big problem on the streets. the sirens going on. even if you re not even in the tornado warning places. you don t know which way to go. you really can t decide if you want to make a run home or stay where you are. cnn s ed lavendera is on the phone right now from lancaster. what are you seeing where you are right now? we have made our way into hit hard by the storm that rushed through just a few hours ago. a neighborhood in lancaster, from what we have bib able to see, and it s difficult to navigate with the e
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