Our family home was located at N. Static radio signal so she turned the radio off. So she was unaware of the tornado. Deke was out with friends playing Baseball. So as a 3 year old I donot where it was but I recall it was such destruction.
We lived on the top floor of an apartment house that had three floors and three apartments. I remember my Dad was home, which didn?
My Mom had prepared dinner and we had just finished eating, she had made a cherry pie and had just served it to us. All of a sudden the lady from downstairs, ran up the back stairway and yelled for us to get to the basement FAST that there was a tornado coming.
I remember all of us running down the stairs as fast as we could, we didn? We got to the basement, there were about children, including my sister and me. There must have been at least that many adults too. We were all squished into a very little room, there was a bed and a crib in the room. All the kids hid under the crib. There was a man there that was really drunk and kept trying to get out.
I remember everyone trying to control him, finally my Dad knocked him out and he fell to the floor, where he remained. The wind was howling so loud it sounded like a freight train was coming through the wall.
