Tornado survivor in Tennessee says twister felt like '10 trains going down the road at one time'

(9 May 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
COLUMBIA, Tennessee - 9 May 2024
1. Wide of a brick house with roof missing

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Spring Hill, Tennessee - 9 May 2024
2. Wide of Sam Barnes talking to utility workers
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Barnes, Spring Hill, Tennessee resident:
"We were home. Just gotten home. My wife was home cooking dinner. We didn't have much warning. Once we knew what was happening and we saw what was coming, I knew it wasn't right. We got downstairs. That's all we could do."
Reporter: "Could you see it? Anything from here?
Barnes: "You could see it coming across the hill. But you could tell what it was. But you could definitely hear it. And you could feel it."
Reporter: "What did it feel like, like a pressure or like?"
Barnes: "Oh, you could feel the rumble. You could actually feel it coming. I can't explain it. It was like ten trains going down the road at one time."
4. Medium of utility workers walking through the debris of a home
5. Wide of workers putting a tarp on the house
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Barnes, Spring Hill, Tennessee resident:
"I mean, the force was so strong coming through our basement that it blew the doors out, going to the back of the house from what was coming through the house from the upstairs."
7. Wide of a worker using a chainsaw on a tree

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Columbia, Tennessee - 9 May 2024
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Walter Shell, Columbia, Tennessee resident:
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"But it missed my, where me and my wife were standing about about four inches. It went around. And it pays to pray. I just got done praying to the Lord, 'Please don't let nobody get hurt.'"
9. Wide of construction worker moving downed trees
STORYLINE:
The storms continue a streak of torrential rains and tornadoes this week from the Plains to the Midwest and, now, the Southeast. At least four people have died since Monday.

The weather comes on the heels of a stormy April in which the U.S. had 300 confirmed tornadoes, the second-most on record for the month and the most since 2011

One in Tennessee damaged homes, injured people, toppled power lines and trees, and killed a 22-year-old man in a car in Claiborne County, north of Knoxville, officials said. A second person was killed south of Nashville in Columbia, where officials said a likely tornado blew homes off their foundations.

In Columbia, retired pastor Walter Shell said he and his wife grabbed their two dogs and headed for the basement when his phone alerted him to a tornado.

“It missed where me and my wife were standing by about about 4 inches. It went around,” he said. “It pays to pray, I can tell you.”

In Spring Hill, Sam Barnes and his wife had very little notice the storm was approaching, other than an ominous sound coming toward their home.

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