Judy Bodnar was prepared to die the night a tornado ripped up Cherokee Valley.
She even knew the time, shortly after 8:15 p.m., and place, a bathroom in her home on Greystone Drive.
Bodnar, two of her children, her boyfriend and a neighbor were gathered in the home’s master bedroom watching non-stop updates on the storm’s progress across the region.
“We were clicking back and forth between stations until a few minutes before the strike our screen went gray,” she recalled.
Some of the group ventured out to see hail that was rattling the roof before they saw the approaching twister, ran back and all gathered in a half-bath Bodnar had piled with pillows earlier that evening.