kirby is sarah s cat. brook and aaron did not find sarah at home, but they did find sarah. aaron and sarah join me now. very nice to see both of you together. can you guys hear me? this is anderson. one, two, three, four. yes, sir. aaron, sarah, you can hear me? yes. all right, cool. it s great to see you guys together. aaron, what was going through your head when you grabbed the camera and ran outside? had you ever been through anything like this before? nothing like this. i mean, i m not sure anybody has with what they re saying about this kind of tornado. when we left the house, we had no idea it was like this. i took the camera thinking there would be some downed trees and stuff like that. but the time we had to abandon the car because of the debris, you realized the severity of everything and i already had the camera running. so we had it running as every block you went in deeper, the worse and worse it got and the severity of it set in.
moments after the tornado struck, video unlike anything we ve seen. a couple, brook mckenzie and aaron cox searching for aaron s sister in a neighborhood that was a neighborhood in name only. take a look. look at all this. you guys okay? are you guys okay? yeah. holy crap! they raced to the home of aaron s sister, sarah. a tree across the street was burning. sarah s house was badly damaged. look. sarah, mike! sarah, mike. mike, sarah! check the basement.
to do. but people pointed us to the walgreen s saying that was where they had a triage center set up. they weren t there, so we started walking down main street, or what was left of main street, trying to get a cell phone signal, which was not x existent. finally we happened to walk into cell coverage and her fiance mike got a phone call through to us, saying they were at our p t parent s house and then the phone cut out. sarah, your cat kerby, is he okay? he s a little traumatized, but yeah, he s happy and ready to be getting back to usual. aaron, i m told you re getting married in a couple of days and you managed to actually save the wedding dress. how did you do that? i know somebody else, the store where the wedding dress was, was
aaron, you had trouble figuring out where you were, even though it s a neighborhood you probably know very well. yeah. i ve lived in joplin my entire life. you know, i ve been to my sister s house obviously plenty of times. but everything was so leveled. you had no idea where you were. with the street signs gone, there was no landmarkers. there was no houses, no trees, no nothing. it was just completely barren. so we kept having to ask people where we were. even the people that lived on the streets were so dazed had a hard time telling us where we were. so it was a real struggle to find out where the heck we were. sarah, where did you ride out the storm? we were in the basement of our home. it was an old cellar. i think originally an outdoor cellar. we just were watching tv, getting ready for dinner and heard the sirens go off. so we went the basement and continued watching tv until we couldn t hear it anymore and realized what was going on. what was it like being in the base
are you guys okay? yeah. holy crap! they raced to the home of aaron s sister, sarah. her house was badly damaged. look. sarah, mike! sarah, mike. mike, sarah! check the basement. sarah, mike? mike, sarah? you guys down here? mike? sis? sarah?