Oklahoma Tornado Survivor Reunites with Trapped Dog During Live Interview
Even in the face of unspeakable tragedy, miracles can occur.
Even in the face of unspeakable tragedy, miracles can occur.
With the devastation in Oklahoma and the possibility of severe storms hitting Kiss Country today we needed a reminder on what to do just in case a tornado warning is issued.
An enormous tornado with a debris cloud two miles wide tore through the metropolitan area just south of Oklahoma City on Monday afternoon.
UPDATE 9:28 p.m. EST: At least 51 people were killed in the storm, including seven children from Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, according to KFOR in Oklahoma City. The news station reported that 75 student and staff were inside the school when the storm struck. Officials said Monday night that the search of the rubble remaining of the school had turned to a recovery mission.
As if you needed another reason not to move to North Dakota, here’s another one for you to add onto your imaginably long list.
Just a couple weeks after a string of deadly, tornado-laden storms ripped through the southeast, Rodney Atkins is going live on the radio station WRIL-The Big 106 to host a radio drive raising money for the storm victims. Atkins will especially be growing support for those communities that took the hardest hit in the March 2 storms – Harrogate, Tenn., West Liberty, Ky., and East Bernstadt, Ky.
If Aiden Praiswater had decided to come into this world a little bit later it could have been disastrous for his entire family. But, thank the Lord that at the exact moment a tornado was ripping apart the Praiswater home, the family was at the hospital where Aiden's mom, Angela, was in labor.
We've all heard about and seen the traumatic images of families and lives torn apart by the recent tornadoes. Here are a few ways that we can help our neighbors in their time of need. Money, food, time, and prayers--there are so many ways to lend a hand.
The National Weather Service has extended the current Tornado Watch until 3pm for the following areas: Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, Webster, Lincoln and Union parishes. This Includes the cities of, Bossier City, Farmerville, Homer, Minden, Ruston and Shreveport.
A social worker in a group home for the disabled almost lost his life trying to save residents when a tornado decimated much of Joplin, Missouri this spring. Now, his company’s insurance provider is denying him workman’s compensation.
It's not just the human spirit that can show amazing resiliency in times of crisis.
A dog named Mason who was blown out of his home when a tornado tore through North Smithfield, Alabama on April 27 crawled back three weeks later. And we do mean crawled.
Sunday's tornado in Joplin, Missouri is now the deadliest in the U.S. since records of tornado fatalities began being kept more than 60 years ago, CNN reported.
The tornado that slammed Joplin, MO on May 22, like the others around the country recently, has resulted in stunning first-person video accounts. With the popularity of video capability on smartphones (not to mention digital cameras) we are now not only seeing the damage closer than ever, but we are also seeing what it's like to wait for the storm, then experience it.