PLANTERSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Kim Atchison was hunkered down in her grandmother’s storm shelter with her 5-year-old grandson Saturday night in their tiny Alabama hometown of Plantersville when her husband and son raced in.
“Get down; get all the way down to the bottom of the cellar,” they told her, saying they could see a twister coming.
Atchison said she remembers first the “dead silence” and then hearing the wind that felt like a funnel and things outside hitting against each other.
“All was quiet after that because it was that fast,” she said. “Like a snap of a finger and it was gone.”
Atchison and her family were among the fortunate
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