>> reporter: that particular couple you're talking about, it's a couple with a six-year-old daughter. they got warning about the ststorm coming to them from the news. they decided to take shelter in a storm basement, and i want you to hear from them how they survived this storm. >> me and our daughter were sitting on that pallet. this door here is what kept us alive, basically, along with him because he was holding it with a lanyard, just a lanyard. >> i've never felt anything like that in my life. it felt like there was ten grown men outside this door trying to pull on the hinges. >> reporter: so he's holding the door shut. you're holding your six-year-old daughter. can you just describe it being a mom? [ crying ] >> we were just -- i just told her to close her eyes and she