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>> reporter: battle hardened storm chasers in awe of nature's power. >> oh, my gosh. this is awful. dude, the trees. the trees are debarked! >> reporter: residents running for cover anywhere they could. >> 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 then everything goes flying. the massive tornado mowing down everyth...

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Going to die while everybody waits. >> we start walking back towards the orphanage, we're walking up, and the kids are outside. and the kids were crying. they were praying. they were shaking. we weren't sure if they were okay or not. i didn't see cendy at that point. >> when the earthquake hit, cendy jeune was 6 years old. a child caught in the chaos of enormous disaster, an orphan swept up in a catastrophe. she had spent most of her young life at the orphanage, la maison de lumiere, the lighthouse. tell me about cendy when she came. >> she was quiet, withdrawn, distrustful. >> reporter: scare...

We actually tracked the storm. it started as a small rope tornado and it lifted and came down as a larger stovepipe tornado, a little bit wider tornado and it tracked to the north and the northeast and we actually followed it for the entire time that it was on the ground and never lost sight of it. it actually impacted other homes outside of hammon. we came up on a small home or trailer that had been damaged out in the country as well but everybody was all right there. >> 900 lost power, as we said. a number of homes have been destroyed. i know you talked to a couple people who had gotten out ...

It. it actually impacted other homes outside of hammond. we came up on a small home or trailer that had been damaged out in the country as well but everybody was all right there. >> 900 lost power, as we said. a number of homes have been destroyed. i know you talked to a couple people who had gotten out of their storm shelters after this thing passed. how are they doing? >> they were all right. they seemed pretty shaken up. confused as to what happened. it was an experience i never personally had where my home has been struck by a tornado. i can only imagine the feeling of walking up, you know...