re: 25 Years Ago, May 3, 1999 F5 OK Tornado

I was in the top floor of a wooden two story apt until Gary England said this was a killer and it was heading my way.

So I went down the street to a block grocery store, but they had locked the doors and put all customers in the back..

All I could find for safety in the small strip mall was a vet clinic. I rode it out in the back with the dogs.. it went by awful close.

There was a steel door between me and the tornado. I heard it. I wanted to see it. But I said to myself: "if you open that door, it may be the last thing you ever do."