article_snippet.sent: Seeing the wreckage up close for the first time since Thursday's storms left some amazed that they survived. '
article_snippet.sent: I thought my parents were dead,' said 32-year-old Adam Davis, who hopped into his truck Thursday and raced along with the tornado in the hopes of getting to his parents' house and rescuing his parents' before the twister struck.
article_snippet.sent: his found his parents' standing in his parents' doorway frozen in disbelief and grabbed his parents' just in time.
article_snippet.sent: On Saturday, his was helping collect what could be salvaged from his childhood home, now full of debris, his childhood home, now full of debris roof ripped off and his childhood home, now full of debris windows broken. '
article_snippet.sent: As the cleanup began, tales of survival continued to emerge.
article_snippet.sent: For her, the storm began with a moment of playful wonder at the size of the hail.
article_snippet.sent: her ran outside to collect some of the pieces to put some of the pieces in the freezer to show her children. '
article_snippet.sent: But the telltale train-like roar sent them and them
article_snippet.sent: 19-year-old daughter running for the basement.
article_snippet.sent: a house cracked and collapsed around them and, raining down debris and a dusting of what her described as 'muddy soot.'
article_snippet.sent: The family survived, and several police officers helped free her husband, who had been trapped nearly upside down between two collapsed walls. '