(18 Mar 2025)
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Plantersville, Alabama – 17 March 2025
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Kim Atchison, who was down the road from Lovelady Dr where the storm hit:
"We went to my grandmother’s house, which is just 500ft away, probably 500 at least. And we have a storm shelter in the back and we gathered in the bottom of the storm shelter to wait my husband and my son were actually sitting in car, and about five minutes after I got into the storm shelter with my family, they said they could see it coming and they ran and and said that get all the way down to the bottom of the cellar. And that’s what we did. And it got real quiet, dead silence. And, you know, you could hear the wind maybe feeling like a funnel. You know, I hear things flapping against each other. And that wind was terrific. And after that, we sat there a little bit and all was quiet after that because it was that fast, like a snap of a finger, it was gone."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Kim Atchison, who was down the road from Lovelady Dr where the storm hit:
"It was a quite a different sight to see to drive down the road to see what used to be and then what’s now cause it’s different."
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STORYLINE:
Kim Atchison was hunkered down in her grandmother’s storm shelter Saturday night in her tiny Alabama hometown of Plantersville when her husband and son raced in.
“Get down; get all the way down to the bottom of the cellar," they told her, saying they could see a twister coming.
Atchison said she remembers first the “dead silence” and then hearing the wind that felt like a funnel and things outside hitting against each other.
“All was quiet after that because it was that fast," she said. “Like a snap of a finger and it was gone.”
Atchison and her family were among the fortunate ones to avoid being killed in the three-day outbreak of severe weather across eight states that kicked up a devastating combination of wildfires, dust storms and tornadoes, claiming at least 42 lives since Friday.
Two people were killed by a twister in Plantersville.
The tornado struck Free’s home, leaving only the front patio behind.
More than a half-dozen houses were destroyed while others were left in rough shape, some with walls peeled clean off. The tornado flipped a trailer onto its roof and toppled trees in every direction.
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