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we ve seen the first responders coming through. imagine waiting just after it hit. where were you when it happened? i was in the celler with my daughter, my daughter-in-law who is pregnant. the cellar full of water now. that s what they came out of. the fire department had to dig them out. the four grand kids, pregnant daughter-in-law. they dug you out? yeah. what time was that? i don t know. what time was it? as soon as the storm was over and we just opened up the cellar door. got out of the hole about this big where they could get some signals from the phone and called the emergency line then turned around and we started screaming and they said they had to get people because they couldn t get us out. then they pulled the debris up. how many of you were down there? eight. eight of you? everyone is okay? yes.
we locked the cellar door when we saw it coming and next thing you know is you see the latch coming undone and we couldn t reach for it and it ripped open the door and glass and debris started slamming on us. emotions are raw here in moore, oklahoma. people describing this tornado as if it were a monster that came through here in joplin. they described it as a fist coming flying out of the sky and crushing everything below it. now what you see around us, medical center over my shoulder destroyed. one of the places that was supposed to be more secure. the devastation is obvious here. how they will recover is not. the community is coming together. they are doing all they can search and rescue is ongoing. throughout our reporting on this, we ve been trying to stay away from the numbers of casualties. we ve been giving you what the government is putting out because that s often how we measure the impact. i will tell you this.
we had to pull a car out of the front hallway off a teacher. i don t know what that lady s name is, but she had three little kids underneath her. good job, teach. it ripped our house up. i ve still got a little girl buried in there. i ve got to go. we thought we died because we locked the cellar door, it got louder and next thing you know, you see the latch coming undone and we couldn t reach it and it ripped open the door and it just glass and debris started slamming on us and we thought we were dead, to be honest. all right, we re back, mika, here in moore. and obviously you look behind us. we ve been looking the shot s
a lifetime, but i would say probably 15 minutes maybe. what did it sound like? it started off with some light winds. then you could tell the wind picked up a lot, and then you could hear a lot of banging and clang i clanging, and i m assuming that it was stuff hitting the top of the cellar door. and now you re still with your friends in the cellar? is that right? yes. so far you re still reluctant to leave the house? everybody you say is remaining hunkered down, is that right? yeah. because there s still storms coming. how many people are you with? there are one, two let s see, four kids, three dogs, three adults. my husband is somewhere in the city. so what is that, seven of us,