Johnel Langerston Sr. was hundreds of miles away in Kentucky with his daughter when his phone rang the afternoon of May 16. It was his wife, La Tasha Langerston.
“[There was a] panic in her voice describing the scene,” he said.
La Tasha Langerston was on her way to pick up their 17-year-old son, Johnel Langerston Jr., from school. By then, the sunlight had been replaced with menacing dark clouds. High winds uprooted several trees around her. Debris was scattered everywhere. She was in the path of the tornado…