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The Storm Cellar on Chestnut Road

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In Moore, Oklahoma, Dorothy Dixon keeps a steel-reinforced storm cellar beneath her backyard. She has lived through three major tornadoes, including the devastating EF5 that...

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Proverbs 18:10

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