helmets and hid in the choose sweat played like hell and luckily, the only rooms that were spared was the room we were in. >> just lucky to be alive, so many people have told us that here in moore, oklahoma. if you look behind me, you see what used to be a steel building and it lets you know that being inside doesn't make you safe. if you're not in a shelt, many deep underground, it is a roll of the dice whether or not you make it through a situation like what happened here yesterday at about 3:00 p.m. in the afternoon. many people had about 10 to 15 minutes to react. for days they knew there were storm possibilities that could create tornadoes but in the final moments, that urgency, it was 15, 16 minutes, which they say is good in terms of warning but where do you go? what do you do? listen to what this one man did, that a decision that probably saved his life. >> it was all windy and stuff before the tornado came. i didn't have -- i had no idea it was coming. just figured it was like yesterday, you know, big storm