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Legs. and he could hear me screaming. it s crushing me. it s crushing me. it was like i got to get the wall off my wife. i just remember grabbing it. lifting as hard as i could to try to get that up. i thought she is going to die if i don t get that off her. my daughter was one of the kids underneath me. my youngest. she was just screaming, mom, mom, mom, wake up. wake up. and i could see her. she seemed kind of translucent to me. i kind of thought i was dead. where is she? you can imagine afterward outside how parents and teachers and the students were able to pick their way out of the rubble we were traumatized. she s out. okay. a local photographer took this picture of steve and ladonna and two of their daughters in shock right after the funnel cloud hit. la do not ark was just then starting to realize the extent of her injuries. ....
He would be like, come on. i was like, no. she had more fight in her, you know, to feel that need to protect everybody. when he came in and he said, get out here now, i knew my stomach dropped at that moment. just the look on his face and tone of his voice, i knew something was really, really wrong. and when i came around that building and saw it, my heart just dropped. you actually saw the twister? oh, yes. what did you see? it was enormous. i could see big, huge pieces of debris flying in the air. could you really? yes. it was i would say half a mile to a mile at the most away from us at that point. by then, they felt there was no time to get away. ladonna and steve bolted inside. they came to classroom 202, which just happened to be the classroom of their daughter erin in the first grade. the tornado precaution is put ....
i broke my cheekbone. so this side of my face is still numb. i had a gash in the back of my head to my skull. i had 16 staples. that probably scared the kids, too, didn t it? my middle daughter was screaming. somebody help my mom. my mom is going to die. and i just kept telling her, i said, i m hurt, baby, but i m okay. i m alive. i m here. amazingly, nobody died at briarwood elementary. but just one mile away at plaza towers elementary, seven children did die. i can t even imagine the amount that plaza towers lost and how hard that is for them. today both schools are being built with fema approved safe areas. now it s hope, i think, hope of what s to come. a good sign for the future said ladonna cob. ....
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