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This is a very
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This is now a confirmed
tornado warning.

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Seek shelter immediately.
This is a real, live tornado.

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Today's gonna be
extremely windy.

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And I wasn't planning on doing
this, but I'm just gonna start

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videoing everything, I think.

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My name is Blake Brown,
and I live in Amarillo, Texas.

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So, in Amarillo, we have
a lot of different versions of

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weather, but coming into March,
it changed people's mindset in

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the way that-- how they need
to treat weather.

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The house is literally shaking,
so I'm trying to get all

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my gear loaded.
It was already gusting to 70.

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I knew it was gonna be probably
one of the wildest like,

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windy weather days we've ever
had in the Texas Panhandle.

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We do wanna begin with FOX
35 meteorologist Brooks Garner.

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Danielle, good morning.

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My name is Brooks Garner.

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I'm a meteorologist in
Orlando, Florida at FOX 35.

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March of 2025, by far, was
the most extreme month of

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weather I've ever seen
in my career.

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We are in it through
the weekend with over

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150 million Americans in that
danger zone for strong

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to severe storms.

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You've probably heard of
the phrase El Niño

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and maybe La Niña.

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Well, in this case, we've been
in La Niña, where it's been

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unusually cold off of Ecuador.

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And what that's done is push
the jet stream really far north

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for much of the winter.

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And now, as we get deeper into
this month of March, that jet

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stream is being forced
southward into all

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of that hot air.

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That is the match to
the gasoline, the powder keg

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that is the atmosphere,

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producing this widespread
severe weather.

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It's the beginning of
the wind season across much

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of the Southern Tier.

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They can easily gust over
70 miles per hour.

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And when it's been extremely
dry as it has here,

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it can kick up dust
known as haboobs.

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That's an Arabic word to
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sand or dust.

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And it can be blinding.

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And it can also cause
deadly accidents.

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I find a spot to pull over,
'cause the wind

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is getting worse.

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So the winds are picking up

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dramatically.

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I know that the highway
is not a safe spot.

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The visibility is almost zero
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of locations around Amarillo.

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So if you don't have to drive,
do not drive.

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Um, it's not a good idea.

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At this moment,
Amarillo is a no-drive zone.

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The dust is making
the situation way dangerous.

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You already have pileups,
wrecks happening everywhere.

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Just looking at
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there was a lot of fatalities.

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At this point in time,
our computer models are saying

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this is just the beginning.

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The La Niña infused
jet stream

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producing huge
storm systems is

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minutes away from producing
multiple tornadoes across

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Missouri and Arkansas.

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I'm extreme meteorologist
Reed Timmer,

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and I'm a storm chaser.

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We intercept tornadoes
with our armored vehicles,

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the Dominators.

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I'm chasing with other
storm chasers.

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Our goal is to live stream
these tornadoes to warn people

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on the path of these storms
as they're happening.

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If we get a tornado that
touches down, we wanna live

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stream it so that people know
this dangerous storm is heading

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toward their location.

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There's Randy going that way.

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Yeah.

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Got it--

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Targeting a tornado in
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it was very hard to predict,

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and also very dangerous
to chase.

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This is a very violent,
destructive tornado heading

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right toward our direction.

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It is heartbreaking to see
a town with a damaged path

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right through the heart.

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A tornado outbreak
is in progress

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across multiple states.

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And that same weather system
is coming into Florida.

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I'm based in Orlando, Florida.
It's where I work at FOX 35.

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That morning, I'm thinking,
"Uh-oh, this is gonna be

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a very busy morning of
tracking storms."

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This is a very,
very significant situation.

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The first thing I'm noticing
is there's a really

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high level of humidity.

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I'm also observing
an upper-level system in

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the South that will be swinging
through Florida later

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this morning, and in doing so,
producing wind shear,

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which can produce tornadoes.

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At this point, we're on alert.

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Stop it right there.

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Stop, stop, stop,
and pull it out.

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Do you see that area
where the rain?

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See that?
That could be it, guys.

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We could be looking
at a tornado on camera.

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And suddenly,
I see the tornado...

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and it's heading
for where people live.

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It's gonna be over
Longwood Lake Mary Road
right now.

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And at this point,
it's reaching EF2 strength

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with winds over
120 mph.

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And it is getting even stronger.

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And it's just minutes away from
hitting the FOX 35 studios

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where I'm standing.

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That could be it, guys.

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We could be looking at
a tornado on camera.

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OK, there's debris.
We've got debris on...

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OK, take shelter.

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The tornado is rapidly making
an approach, but it's hidden

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behind a sheet of
blinding rain.

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It's fight or flight.

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I was really scared.
I was managing my fear.

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I'm a family man.

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I've got three kids and a wife
at home at this moment,

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and I'm worrying
about their safety.

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Get below shelter.

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I've been doing this for
a very long time.

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That's the first time a tornado
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I'm doing the weather.

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This is the real deal.

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And I'm hoping at this moment
that people are heeding

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the warning that they're
getting to their safe spot.

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My name is Amy Sweezy.

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In Seminole County, we've had
a lot of storms over the years.

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I think there's always the fear
that someone can be hurt in

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a tornado,
because I've seen it.

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I'm looking at the trees bend.

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I'm hearing the sound,
the loud, loud, distinct sound.

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I feel scared in that moment.

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You know, things are starting
to get really loud.

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The wind is getting very noisy.

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So at that point,

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I'm thinking in the back of
my brain, "Holy cow,

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I am witnessing a tornado."

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As I'm hearing the wind
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I'm thinking...

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"I can't believe that this is
happening to me.

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I can't believe this is at
my house."

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And I'm looking at the stuff
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and then I'm thinking,

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where is this storm going?

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Across this one
evening, multiple tornadoes

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are breaking out.

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This is happening across
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all the way to Missouri.

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And it's all related
to the same system, as there's

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a battle between
winter and spring.

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My name is Tad Peters.

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My dad and I were driving
to Kokomo, Indiana.

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That was our destination,
to put on

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a powerlifting competition.

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We knew it was looking pretty
bad, and that's why we pulled

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off on in to Rolla to kind of
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The emotions in that video are
absolutely raw.

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A little bit of anxiety,
I guess, because you don't know

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what's gonna happen.

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And then that's when you start
seeing the lights flicker.

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Once it had passed and I had
a time for my brain to just

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stew it over, that's when
I realized, "OK, we could've

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very easily not be here
right now."

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And then that's when it started
to digest a little bit.

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It'd be bad for both of us
to not be here, but I think

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it'd be even worse for him not
to be here and me survive.

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I wouldn't want that.

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Let's talk about the business
side of this thing.

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Now that we here at FOX 35 are
safe, we've gotten through

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this tornado,
we've gotta talk about

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folks in the path of this.

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In Florida, our FOX 35 Storm
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the warnings in real time
in utter disbelief,

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because similar conditions
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the Southern Tier.

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All of a sudden, Arkansas is
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for a tornado outbreak.

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My name is Taci Humphries,
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and raised in
Ash Flat, Arkansas.

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I grew up on a farm.

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I got my horse Blondie
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That day, it was very windy,
like insane wind.

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Even my sister decided
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which is very unlike her.

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My name is Brian Emfinger.

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I am a storm chaser
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So when the storm
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I am keeping an eye on radar.

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All of a sudden, my mom
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She's like, "We need to go.
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The wind started really
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my dad coming down
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and that was just not like him.

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And there was a panic
in his voice

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that sent chills down my body.

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I was looking at my sister,
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screaming and crying.

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I hold my sister's hand,
and we take a moment of prayer.

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So, as this tornado
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I could hear the boards in
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and they were, like,

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almost pulling up.

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And then I could hear stuff
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My ears are popping, and I can
just hear the loud wind

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whipping around us.

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I'm Brian Emfinger.

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I am a professional
storm chaser.

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I started going and doing
the search and rescue.

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So our house was
completely totaled.

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Is there a home here that's
damaged or destroyed

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that I need to tell
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And the first one I saw
laying there was Blondie.

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And she was trapped underneath
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and she was very, very still.

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And so I went down to,
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and see if
she was still there.

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And I couldn't
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My heart immediately drops.

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You could tell the body
language on the people in that

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area that this was
a horrible situation.

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I just couldn't believe it.

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She has been with me through
so many things.

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I wasn't anywhere ready
to say goodbye to her.

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And so I was just
absolutely distraught.

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A group of men lifted
this 1,000-pound concrete

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trough off of her.

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And then all of a sudden,
Blondie was up in perk

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and looking around
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I just couldn't believe it.
She walked beautifully.

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And so I was like,
"There's no way, how is she OK?"

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I was just happy we were
all safe.

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In what is now a relentless
multi-state tornado outbreak

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caused by low pressure systems
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the west as there's a battle
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This is now an extremely
dangerous situation.

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In the same evening,
the same storm system continues

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its devastating trek northeast.

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My name is Jerome Jose.

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I lived in Oakville,
Missouri, which is

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approximately two and a half
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The evening, I started out
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I would say living in Missouri
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the point, I really didn't pay
the amount of respect

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I should have.

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After receiving so many
warnings and nothing happening,

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they're just exaggerating it.
It's fine.

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We don't have to worry
about this.

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I didn't know what was coming.

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So that night, we're in a bar.

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And that tornado warning
then turned into

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an emergency notification.

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As it comes closer,
you hear it.

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I did not know
I was being filmed.

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I didn't even hear the lady.
I couldn't hear anything.

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I felt being pushed and pulled
at the same exact time.

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This is extraordinarily
dangerous and serious.

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This is probably one of
the dumbest things

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I've ever done.

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2
I can't stop a tornado,

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I can't hope to control it,
I just have to survive it.

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And I struggled for about two
and a half minutes trying to

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get these doors closed again.

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These tornadoes are animals.
These are beasts.

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You really have to...

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give them the respect
that they deserve.

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I am observing, we're
observing these conditions using

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the National Weather Service.

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Our job is to warn where
it's going and what

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it's likely packing.

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Just 16 hours after
Arnold, Missouri, was hit,

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a powerful low-pressure system
is fueling the power for even

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more dangerous
extreme conditions.

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My name is Terry Giles,
and I live in Kerrville, Texas.

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When we do get rainstorms,
sometimes it gets...

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pretty...
it gets pretty bad.

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All of a sudden, uh...

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it's coming through the woods,

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uh, you could hear it.

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It scared me 'cause I thought
it was a tornado.

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It was a roar.

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But it wound up being hail.

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It was such a strong
wind that was pushing it.

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Never seen anything
come in that forceful.

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It was coming in like missiles.
It was just crazy.

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It was...

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a god-awful sound like
I'd never heard before.

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I was scared to go outside
and see how much damage had

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actually been done.

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If anyone would've been
caught out in something like

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that, it would kill 'em.

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My mom and I were at a cheer
competition in Galveston,

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driving back from that.
And all of a sudden,

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the first hail hit
my windshield.

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Being in the heart of
that storm was terrifying.

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The hailstones were probably
the size of a baseball.

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They were quite large.

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My brother
came out to rescue us.

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No one in Kerrville, I believe,
has ever seen hail this size.

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This was a freak storm.
I mean,

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it was so out of the ordinary.

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It was just terrible.

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I mean, a lot of people
were hurt.

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A lot of people were injured.

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I just, I'm so thankful
that I was in my car.

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It absolutely was
very terrifying.

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During the month of
March, the U.S.

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is particularly susceptible
toward large hail events.

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But there's still
a high chance of

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a major tornado outbreak.

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There's upper-level energy
riding the boundary between

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the cold polar air to the north
and the warm subtropical air

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to the south.

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Everything is perfect for
rotation in the sky

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as air lifts and violent
tornadoes to descend.

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My name is DeJaun Lane,

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and I live in
Tylertown, Mississippi.

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In Tylertown, we don't get
a lot of storms.

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I have never
experienced a tornado.

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All that's falling
on Wayne house over there.

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Oh!

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When the trees went to
swinging, I knew it was real.

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- Camper's smooth gone.
-  Man.

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It was clothes everywhere.
It was debris everywhere.

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2
Over the next several
days, multiple tornadoes are

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breaking out, resulting from
the same weather system.

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This is a force of nature
that can't be controlled,

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and it's continuing
its damaging trek,

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bringing devastation
along its way.

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2

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Oh!

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Literally in about
five seconds, it looked like

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the world was turned
upside down.

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I never saw anything of that
nature, of that caliber.

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I was very lucky.
I was very fortunate.

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If it was to re-happen again,

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I'd be ducking instead
of recording.

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I'll never forget
March of 2025.

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This is by far the most active
March I've ever seen in

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my career and most people have
ever seen in their lives.

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March of 2025 was
the number one for tornadoes

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in U.S. history.

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You've gotta go back to
the 1930s, the Dust Bowl,

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to find the frequency
and intensity of dust storms

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that we observed.

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A lot of people are surprised
to learn that the water

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temperature of Ecuador affects
our weather here in the U.S.

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It can lead to droughts
and heat waves, and it can also

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impact the hurricane season.

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That can cause a weather
whiplash, and that's why March

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featured so much
weather madness.

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I don't know when the next
time I'm ever gonna see

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Amarillo like that.
Hopefully I never have to.

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It was horrible.

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Seeing what I've seen, kind of
like the trauma level of that,

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of just witnessing everything
that I witnessed, I don't think

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I'm ever gonna be able
to get it out of my brain.

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It's gonna be there forever.

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Based on my experience, I am
very observant of weather,

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more observant.

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And I pay a lot of respect
to any advisories

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and any notifications.

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You don't really understand
and truly respect

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these warnings until you're
faced with something like this.

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Our house, it was a mess,

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and so it made me absolutely
terrified of tornadoes now.

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I used to like storms.

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I used to like the thunder
and the rain, but my storm

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anxiety now is
through the roof.

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It makes me very nervous.

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It also makes my horses
very nervous now.

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They do not like wind
or rain anymore.

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So when she stood up,
completely fine,

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that's when the shock
just took over.

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I don't know what could've
happened medically.

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We've been puzzled about it
since it happened.

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I don't know if
she was unconscious.

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She was in shock.

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It's miraculous,

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and so the only thing I can
think is that God really did

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place a hand of protection
over her that night.

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Right now, Blondie is fat
and happy, and she's enjoying

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her days in the field
and she just looks beautiful.

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She's slicked off
into her summer coat,

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and she's shiny, and she loves
all the attention

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she's been getting.

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That night, honestly,
the only way I can refer to it

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is the scariest night
of my life.

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But it's made me become more
grateful for the experience

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to get to do what I love,

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because it can be over quick.