what that was like for him, to see that house behind you and try to picture it the way he was describing it as a big, beautiful home with columns around it and the top of it is tipped on to the road behind you. unbelievable. we wish them well in this window of good weather for the moment. mike, thanks again. a few minutes ago we told you about the potentially deadly twister outbreak that may still come today. we are trying to talk with the severe weather center in norman, oklahoma. we hope we ll have that for you shortly. stick around for that. that means, of course, that the storm chasers are out there at this very moment watching to see what may swirl and start to develop around them, to bring us this kind of video that we ve seen throughout this whole ordeal like this one. take a look. on the south side of joplin, it s a massive tornado, massive destruction. it s a mile wide tornado it s leveling the south side of joplin right now. martha: now they are even taking you along for th
help of her friends right now trying to get all of her belongs somewhere where it can be dry before more expected bad weather hits. this is john degrath. john you were in this house when the tornado hit but you actually live in that little yellow house off in the distance. yes, the third house from the corner, which you can t tell three houses, it s the little yellow house directly back over there, that s my house, that s where i was just prior to the storm and tornado hitting. reporter: you knew you won t make it as this big ef4 worked its way through here. i saw it on the radar and they said the tornado is in this position or funnel clouds. i said this looks bad. i came out my back door, i ran up here to d, i call her d, d s house, we looked on the front porch, it looked really, really bad, you could not see the tornado, it was rain wrapped. the wind was out of control, the rain came blowing in, we went inside, we hit the basement, it hit. the tornado sirens went off i was ru
sirens went off. we got to the basement our ears started popping just repeatedly, over and over and over again it lasted about a minute and we could see this big giant beautiful two story house, we could just hear it crumbling on top of us. one minute it was gone and then just water and stuff was pouring in we continue get out. it took us about 30 minutes to finally dig out. we came out through the front, under the front porch by pulling down in the basement a little window and kicking a screen out and crawling out through the front porch then going to the back because both the access we had going down to the basement and a back access flip up door were completely covered. this house had huge white columns stacked all the way around. this was a huge wrap around porch. this was a giant, two story building. how many people were in the basement with you. there were three. i was in the basement, terry who is terry and d are a couple, they ve lived here for probably