Family Hit By 2 Tornadoes

Eight tornadoes tore through parts of Oklahoma last night, leaving behind a trail of devastation, killing at least one person.

The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit Barnsdall was an EF-4; they were just hit by an EF-1 tornado on April 1.

Susan Love has lived in Barnsdall all her life, and after seeing the damage from last month’s tornado, she never wanted to see anything stronger. But now, she has.

Susan Love first spoke to News On 6 in April when her home was hit by a tornado.

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“Everybody took it really serious,” Love said. “We’re all still a little shell-shocked from April 1st.”

Susan says this second tornado did a lot more damage and was a lot more terrifying.

“It sounded like a train went right over the top of us,” she said. “Ears were popping. Like painfully, just repeatedly. It felt like all the air came out of our cellar. It was a pressurized feeling. None of us had been through anything like that. We didn’t really feel that with the first one.”

Right after the storm had passed, her sons jumped into action to help save her daughter, who was trapped in her cellar with her family on the other side of town.

“They ran out during the storm, cut down a tree to get them out of their cellar because it had fallen on top of the cellar door. We stayed down for another 20 or 30 minutes before we came out,” said Love. “Our yard, it looks good now, but it was covered in tree limbs, it was covered in debris. From where, we don’t even know.”

She can now see a subdivision she couldn’t see before because so many trees are now down, and lots of her neighbors’ things and parts of their houses and businesses are now on Susan’s lawn.

“Stuff that wasn’t ours was everywhere. We had stairs, flooring, stuff that looked like it came from the plant. I don’t think we were ready for that one either,” she said.

She feels lucky it wasn’t worse, and her heart goes out to the people who lost everything.

She has faith in her town and its people and believes they will come back stronger.

“We all get together and help our neighbors, and Barnsdall will push through it. We always do. That’s one good thing about living here, is that everybody always comes together. And we’ll get it cleaned up and get it fixed.”

Susan hopes people will help in any way they can, whether it’s donating food, clothes, or money because the people in Barnsdall need all the help they can get and will for some time.