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Months before an "emergency evacuation” of the Rock Rapids Care Centre, the home's management told state regulators of plans to close.
>> i have never seen anything like this. >> reporter: the national weather service called it a particularly dangerous situation, the tornados inflicting heavy damage on the town of pilger, about 100 miles northwest of omaha, nebraska, destroying homes. >> the shingles started blowing through my yard. i watched my hot tub slide and then everything lifted off of us and the heater smashed over me and my buddy. >> there were a couple houses on this side of the street. across the street there were three houses which are gone. there were three houses on the opposite side of the block that are gone. ...