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