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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Tornadoes Hit Central Plains [Watch (HLS stream): Tornadoes Hit Central Plains](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/18RV3eq3.m3u8) (1:52)  _Published 2013-05-20. A series of tornadoes tore through Oklahoma and Kansas on May 19th, leaving trail of destroyed houses and overturned semi trucks in their wake._ --- Jul 27, 2023 3:35 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Oklahoma Tornado Trail of Destruction](/video/KjHP0a1U/) ### Oklahoma Tornado Trail of Destruction [Oklahoma Tornado Damage](/video/4uTED6ng/) ### Oklahoma Tornado Damage [Second Wave of Tornadoes Hit Oklahoma](/video/hOg1Kj6F/) ### Second Wave of Tornadoes Hit Oklahoma --- ## Transcript [ SOUND ] It was very eerie. It was very gut, very dark, the sky got really dark. We went to the cellar and we were so thankful. We also had our brains and we knew to, to go. The electricity went out and then it was hitting and by of course then, it was like, because there were tree limbs flying, we just hunkered down and hoped for the best. [ NOISE ] It sounded like a train and after all the noise, and then when we came out, the house and everything was, the trees and the electric I thought, we thought we were gonna be trapped there all night. Semi truck is teetering on that, overpass. We had the semi truck that overturned on a major interstate and that highway was blocked for many, many hours. And certainly traffic was stopped in that immediate area. So the wind here, this, this is no joke. When, when we say get off the road, get in your area... Everything was just It was just gone. You see like beds in the yard, you see like everything was just like, you took the house, you put it in like a gigantic blender, you turned it on pulse for a couple minutes and then you just dumped it out. Right now were our crews are out doing an initial damage assessment, trying to see if anybody is out hurt, what kind of structures we have damaged. Folks that need any help from the Red Cross. We got the Red Cross out here. They brought some things so if anybody needs any help they feel free to come to the fire department and hit us up and we can get them in touch with somebody that needs that help. We had so many different tordadoes throghout the state. It was difficult to keep up with all that was going on. Because it was all happening within about an hour to a three hour time span. 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