underneath the debris until first responders managed to pull her out. she joins me with her daughter tiffany. it s great to have you both here. when the storm was coming, how much warning did you have? i m not quite sure because i was working. then i got the alert that severe thunderstorms were coming. and then, as soon as that happened, it turned into a watch. and then, the next thing i know, i don t know what to do because my son is in high school, south moore high school and i didn t get my alert because my phone quit working. they were holding them in the school and so i stayed in the house. where in the house did you go? i went in my living room. i had a hall closet. a coat closet. i went in there, sat on the floor, grabbed a pillow and put it over my head. it got so loud, i knew it was hitting.
just it was instinct. it was just, like, i got to get out of here. i m not chancing this. we re going to let you have the last word. what do you want people to know? the thunderstorm take away my all my favorite stuff. it s gone. it s all gone. but you re okay. mom s okay. new toys. you get new toys. i got a new toy right now. iron man. who gave that to you? well my coach. little league coach s wife. my coach s wife give this iron man to me to keep me comfortable here. just because just in case i get bored or anything like that. jules, i have a feeling you re going to be getting just guessing you re going to get some new toys. you ll get brand-new toys. maybe another iron man toy. you guys are brave. you guys are very, very brave. when i had to put them in the k coat closet trying to listen,
people who did not survive, the stories of those who did and persevered and heard the knocks and yells to find the neighbors, the close calls, they re incredible stories. we want to tell you here in moore, one family i want to tell you about, is tara lee miller and her three young boys. as the storm was approaching here in moore, just this past monday, she left work early, she picked up each child and she took them some place she thought was safe, she took them home. she put the boys in a coat closet, turned on the television, the warnings were ominous. and so the warnings were get out, you know, if you don t have a shelter, the storm is just going to be that big. do not get in the closet. she heard this meteorologist from a local station, she told me this morning, saying get out, get out, so she did. she hurried everyone back to the car and sped away with minutes to spare. it is a good thing she did. when the millers returned home, it was gone. right down to that coat closet. she gave
it s okay when your time comes to ride it out in the coat closet and close the door, not so with an ef-4 or an ef-5 when everything is ripped to pieces and strewn for miles. you know, bill karins talks about a lot of these homes don t have basements. we saw that one shelter, how many of these homes are equipped with that kind of safety dynamic where they can find that kind of shelter if they have to? well, here s an interesting fact about 1999, it struck down the road before it hit moore. that was a much older town that was built of solid brick and they usually, most of them had storm cellars. that town was decimated about 95% destroyed. no one died because they had shelters to go into underground. it moved up the road and went through moore. moore is a newer city. and they re not built with basements and here s why. when you look at the funnel cloud, you can see in many of these pictures an explosion of red at the bottom. that red is the natural red clay that is covered all over
a guy in utah discovered this hamburger he bought in 1999 in an old jacket. that s a 14-year-old burger? extremely old jacket. 14 years later, the bun and patty seems to look identical. the only thing is the pickles disintegrated. it was 79 cents 14 years ago. so, why did the burger stay in his coat pocket for so long? he describes it here. it ended up in a paper sack, in the original sack with the receipt, in my coat pocket, tossed in the back of my truck t sat there for two, three months. the coat ended up in the coat closet, my wife discovered this about a year or two after that. we pulled it out, we went my gosh. i can t believe it looks the same way. just a scary story all around. how much would you take to eat that? i would not. you who have to pay me a lot.