Oklahoma Tornadoes: Home shelter shields 14 from twister in Cole

 
BY DAVID ZIZZO
Published: May 25, 2011

COLE — Cheryl Mayo and 14 other people huddled in a shelter as a monstrous tornado churned overhead late Tuesday afternoon.

The tornado blew open the door of the storm shelter, Mayo said about 30 minutes after the storm passed by. “As soon as it blew the lid open you could see that the house was gone.”

The home was destroyed, along with a double-wide trailer on the same property on State Highway 74B east o...


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