'Shaking Like A Leaf': Claremore Man, 81, Survives Tornado While Sheltering In Bathroom
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- The tornado that hit Claremore injured more than 20 people, with three of them having serious injuries, authorities report.
Tornado debris goes on as far as the eye can see in neighborhoods east of Claremore, with nearly every home facing some kind of havoc on Honeysuckle Lane.
Harold Gillis, 81, has lived alone since his wife Helen passed away in 2018 and was on the phone with his son during the storm on Saturday.
“I was standing at the back door listening and looking to see if anything was going on. And about 11:25, 11:26, something like that, it got real quiet out here. There was nothing. No wind. No anything," Gillis said.
That's when he decided to seek shelter in his bathroom.
Within two minutes, he said the tornado came and went.
“In that few minutes while it’s going on, you’re shaking like a leaf. And I was. I was trembling during that time. But you look out and see that you’re still alive and things get better right quick," he said.
With part of his roof torn off, he can't stay at his home anymore and Harold said he'll wait for insurance before he decides if he'll try to rebuild.
At the Rogers County Election Board, shattered glass covers the floor, and so do sample ballots.
It’s the real ballots for an upcoming June election that Secretary Julie Dermody was worried about.
She came to the election board as soon as the storm passed and stayed there until 3 a.m. when the doors were boarded up.
"My biggest concern was to make sure that we kept the ballots secure and we kept the machines secure, which we did," Julie said.
Also secure are handwritten voter registration records that are more than 100 years old.
Dermody doesn't know yet if the next election will take place there, or somewhere else.
“It’s nothing that’s not fixable. There’s nobody here at the time, so that’s a positive," said said.
The Red Cross has a shelter open in town for those with nowhere else to go.
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Never ceases to amaze me how people try to look at something that God does, as from the devil. Heaven forbid that they should start to look at their lives... Nahum 1:3
God controls the whirlwind and the storm. If I was the people in th9s church, I would begin to wonder and ask God why he is allowing these things...
Very glad to hear that this old man made it through this...God bless.
joe biden did that!
No Oklahoma crimes did that.