A friend of mine moved to OKC from Michigan about three years ago. She's weathered our tornado seasons well, so is no longer in that "freak out" stage, especially now that she lives in a home with a basement.

About two weeks ago she went back up to Michigan for a family function, and as they were driving from the event venue to a friend's house, she found herself - lo and behold - smack dab in the middle of a tornado...green cloud, significant lowering, swirling debris, the whole bit.

As she was driving with members of her family, she recognized what was coming right for them, pulled into someone's driveway (and by "someone," I mean random person they do not know), and ran into the house. The people came up the stairs from their basement, and beckoned her and her family back downstairs with them. Her first words once they got settled back in the basement and away from imminent danger were: "I'm from Oklahoma!"

After the fact when they got back outside, there was a great deal of limb/tree damage, and one limb had fallen on to the car of the people who owned the home.