Close-up footage of tornadoes has become common in the cellphone-camera age, but the episode does an especially effective job of combining images from several sources into a timeline that conveys just how frightening it was when a huge tornado destroyed a large part of that town, killing 25 people.
Witnesses, including those who shot the footage, recount the personal dramas within the larger catastrophe. A meteorologist on the air related news of the tornado even as it bore down on his neighborhood. A man shielded schoolchildren with his body as a roof collapsed on them. The numbing aftermath included, for one witness, the realization that, in farm country, people were not the only casualties.
Witnesses, including those who shot the footage, recount the personal dramas within the larger catastrophe. A meteorologist on the air related news of the tornado even as it bore down on his neighborhood. A man shielded schoolchildren with his body as a roof collapsed on them. The numbing aftermath included, for one witness, the realization that, in farm country, people were not the only casualties.
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