The Storm Shelter on Maple Street
On May 20, 2013, an EF5 tornado carved a seventeen-mile path through Moore, Oklahoma, flattening entire neighborhoods in minutes. Wind speeds exceeded two hundred miles...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Proverbs 18:10.
On May 20, 2013, an EF5 tornado carved a seventeen-mile path through Moore, Oklahoma, flattening entire neighborhoods in minutes. Wind speeds exceeded two hundred miles per hour. Houses that had stood for decades were reduced to slabs. But on Maple Street, the Hernandez family survived. Not because their home was stronger than anyone else's — it wasn't. They survived because eighteen months earlier, Carlos Hernandez had dug a reinforced concrete storm shelter beneath his garage.…
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