Tornado
Wrote this for the web yesterday to get something up quick.
AURORA — Jeff Juzyk knew it was time to grab his four children and race to the basement when he saw the funnel cloud bearing down U.S. 34 straight for his house.
“It was directly in line and heading for us,” Juzyk said Thursday morning while cleaning up debris.
His daughters, Jenna, 5, and Anna, 3, had just gone to bed Wednesday night but came downstairs when the power went out.
Juzyk saw storm chasers in his driveway four miles west of Aurora. He looked west and saw a tornado coming his way.
Juzyk said it was impossible to guess how far away it was, but without hesitating, he and his wife, Stacie, scooped-up their daughters and sons Jackson, 2, and Jake, 8 months, and scrambled down to the cellar.
Fifteen to 30 seconds later, he said, they were huddled against the west basement wall and the tornado hit.
None of the family was injured, but the east wall of their rural home was gone and the roof crashed onto the daughters’ beds.
“They wouldn’t have made it,” he said.
“We’ve got oodles of friends,” he said of the dozen men and women from his church helping sort through the mess.
“It’s only buildings,” he said.
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I was very impressed with the turnout of people to help them salvage and clean up the mess.
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