![]() With only a few days to get debris moved to the curb to be picked up, it was down to the wire. I thought, ‘What are you guys doing? I’ve got to get this trailer in position.’ They got out, had on gloves,” said Rick. “A car got right in front of me and stopped, another one behind. Rick was trying to park it in front of their home. “We would get up every morning, and it would be pouring down rain, and we’d go and try to find stuff,” he continued.Ī couple days after the disaster, the Terrys were using a trailer to move debris. “We were sad because it was her grandma’s house, sad we lost everything, but what helped us the most was all the family and people we didn’t know helping us dig through this stuff when it was nasty weather. People began giving them clothes, toothbrushes and more to get them by. They found these things that meant the world to her,” Rick recalls. Deep below the destruction, they were found. Sonya owned Christmas ornaments that had her kids’ and grandkids’ names on them. In the next few days, numerous people helped the Terrys search through the rubble that was their home and move debris to the street. “The house didn’t mean anything, nothing inside meant anything… Everybody’s alive. the next day, they had accounted for all their family members. They couldn’t find his house - the area around them was unrecognizable.įinally, by 2 a.m. They went to find their son Chad who lived just down the road. “That was the biggest thing… Just trying to get a hold of everybody and make sure everybody was okay, that was the most horrible feeling in the world,” said Rick. They were most concerned about finding out if their children and grandchildren were safe. Everything,” said Rick.īut they no longer cared about anything in their home. “ Everything we’d worked for our whole life was gone. The bathroom was the only thing untouched. They walked out of the bathroom to see the rest of their home, which had been passed down for generations, completely destroyed. We could hear things flying and breaking… It was scary,” said Sonya. “I’ll never forget Brandon praying like crazy. It was so wide that you couldn’t see left or right around it,” said Rick.Īs the tornado sirens went off, the three of them ran back inside to a small bathroom in the middle of the house. “We could see the tornado, we didn’t know what it was. They could see houses and trees being torn up in the distance. ![]() They went out to the front porch and saw cars speeding down the road. Sonya and Rick Terry were at home with their son Brandon when the storm rolled in. Dealing with it on a daily basis is hard,” he said.Ĭecil (left) and husband Landan (right) Sonya and Rick Terry Sometimes when it’s storming, he hears ambulances. He avoids watching disaster-related media and is triggered by certain smells that remind him of the tornado. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a woman jump. He saw people on the top floor of Mercy hospital screaming for help to get down. Weise-Cornish continued walking to meet with his coworker’s family. He finally received a text from his mom saying that she was safe. “‘ He didn’t do this, a tornado did,'” he yelled back in response. “‘God, why have you done this to me,'” Weise-Cornish heard a bloodied woman proclaim. He’ll always remember the things he saw on that walk. They changed direction and the woman got Weise-Cornish and his coworker as close as she could to the hospital, letting them walk the rest of the way. Weise-Cornish was convinced his parents were dead. ![]() ![]() A man checking where vehicles were going told them those apartments were destroyed. They headed to the Hampshire Terrace apartments to find Weise-Cornish’s parents.
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