As danger approached Valley View’s Shell gas station in the dark, drivers ditched their cars and ran inside the convenience store with restaurants just before…
As danger approached Valley View’s Shell gas station in the dark, drivers ditched their cars and ran inside the convenience store with restaurants just before it took a direct hit.Streaming 24/7: Watch NBC 5 local news and weather for free wherever you are“Windows started breaking down. The lights went out,” said Ana Parra, who was with her father, mother, husband, and siblings. “We were very scared in there.
“Inside, the people were moving the people to the restaurant to the chairs and tables,” said Hugo Parra. “I told everybody: No! Let’s go to the bathrooms!”Parra estimates that 50-60 people were inside when the tornado hit. “My wife asked me: Are you scared,” he said. “I said: ‘No.’ I don’t know why, but I felt like I had to protect everybody. It’s what I feel in my heart.”He huddled in one bathroom with his 23-year-old son, Kenneth Jr., as his mother curled up underneath a sink in the other bathroom.Kenneth Junior said he wanted to shield his father from harm, no matter what.
“I can take a hit for my family,” he said. “If I do survive, I’ll take the hit for my family. I’m younger. I feel like my body would heal faster. If not, then he gets to go on living.”
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