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Twister of Fate

“She dealt with it pretty well,” says Martha Wampler’s friend Ann Rushing, who helped clean up the wreckage a day after the tornado. Twister of Fate Tornado season opens with a bang for one shaken resident of McCrory, Arkansas.
1	The clock stopped at 9:08 on	2	Throughout the South and
	Sunday evening May 4. That’s when		Midwest that night some were not
	the tornado hit Martha Wampler’s		so lucky. The unusually severe
	house in McCrory, Arkansas. Mrs		weather system that generated the
	Wampler, 52, was huddled with her		McCrory twister also caused
	granddaughter Anna, 3, in the hall		dozens of others that killed at least
	as winds that reached 160 mph tore		37 people. Fortunately, no one was
	at the roof. Within seconds the		seriously injured in McCrory, where
	ceilings began to collapse all around		residents had about 10 minutes’
	them — everywhere, that is, except		warning of the twister’s approach.
	in the hall, where even a table with		But afterward Mrs Wampler was
	photographs barely shook. “Things		amazed at the damage to her
	whirled around us — leaves, debris,”		house, which included a tree in the
	says Mrs Wampler, who is raising		living room. “Someone’s shoes and
	her granddaughter. “But we were not		blankets and pants and coats were
	touched. We were truly blessed.”		in the house,” she says. “I have no
			idea who they belong to.”