The Shelter You Have to Enter

On May 20, 2013, an EF5 tornado carved a seventeen-mile path through Moore, Oklahoma, with winds exceeding two hundred miles per hour. Entire neighborhoods were leveled to bare concrete slabs. But beneath one of those slabs, the Hernandez family huddled together in a storm shelter their father had installed three years earlier. When they climbed out into the eerie silence afterward, their house was gone — every wall, every roof joist, every window.…