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>> go! >> oh, dear heaven. >> god! >> reporter: at the same time a security camera in a nearby frozen yogurt shop catches the chaos. workers moving customers to the back and then -- everything goes flying. the massive tornado mowing down everything in its path. people's lives churned up and spewed out. >> here's the gas station that we were at. >> reporter: this is the convenience store now. >> this would have been where we walked in. >> reporter: all across the city, thousands and thousands of people in shock, taking the first steps on the long road to recovery. make no mistake, jop...

that is a monster tornado. >> reporter: battle hardened storm chasers in awe of nature's power. >> oh, my gosh. this is awful. dude, the trees are debarked. >> reporter: residents running for every anywhere they could. >> everybody get down, all on the ground. >> reporter: in a crowded convenience store, some 20 people hunkering down in a darkened commercial refrigerator. >> can we go in the cooler? [ screaming ] >> go! >> oh, dear heaven. >> god! >> reporter: at the same time a security camera in a nearby frozen yogurt shop catches the chaos. workers moving customers to the back and...

Definitely in a tornado. >> aaron, how did you finally find sarah? >> after we didn't find them at the house, we didn't know what to do. but people pointed us to the walgreen's a few blocks away saying that's 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. asking people if they had seen them, yelling out their names. and finally we happened to walk into cell coverage and her fiance, mike, got a phone call through to us that lasted about ten seconds. pretty much saying they had...

>> but paisley can't stop thinking about her dog. >> that was probably the most upsetting thing was roxie. >> reporter: then a phone call almost two miles away, david franco, an oil rig worker, sees a dog walking around his work site. >> i knew she belonged to somebody. >> reporter: paisley and her family race to see if it's true, that their dog had somehow managed to escape the tornado's grip. then the moment they had been hoping for. >> she's coming right now. >> roxie! >> reporter: it is roxie. >> thank you very much. here we go. bless her little heart. >> reporter: she survived with only a...

Outside, which freaked everybody out. >> you were worried a fire might break out? >> yeah. towards the end of it, you could smell smoke outside, so we figured it was time to get away from the building. >> how long did it last for, cory? >> three or four minutes, you know, of bad, bad hail and debris. like that second part where it hits is just so -- the sound, the force of it is so loud. >> what goes through your mind when you're experiencing something like that? >> honestly, it was very surreal. i never felt anything like it. it was almost like a weird calmness. i didn't think i was going to ...