Kelly Patterson was standing in her kitchen when one of her neighbors told her a tornado was coming.
Patterson opened the front door to her second-story apartment and saw the trees out front in the parking lot bend and flatten.
Her purse was on the kitchen counter. Her plan was to grab her purse, her phone and yell for her puppy Elly Mae – a chihuahua-Jack Russell terrier mix – and lock themselves in the bathroom until the storm passed.
Patterson grabbed her purse, but that was all she could do before the roof fell on her.
“I barely had time to pick it up,” she said. “It was really scary. It was bad.”