The Storm Cellar on County Road 4

Margaret Hendricks had lived in Moore, Oklahoma, long enough to know the difference between a watch and a warning. On May 20, 2013, when the sky turned that sickly green and the sirens began their low wail, she did not hesitate. She grabbed her granddaughter's hand, scooped the dog under one arm, and ran — not to the car, not to the highway, but down twelve concrete steps into the storm cellar her late husband Earl had poured with his own hands thirty years before.…