BY IRIS B. HOLTON
Sentinel City Editor

Last Sunday evening, Kevin King had taken a nap during the early evening. He remembers his wife, Krisheena, had gotten up and the next thing he knew she was calling him.

“My wife started screaming my name as she saw the barbeque grill and the garbage can flying away in the backyard. We grabbed whatever we could and went under the house into a crawl space.”

King said they were there between 30 and 45 minutes without any knowledge of what was going on. “We couldn’t see anything. It was like a wall cloud and we could hear the hail beating against the house.”

King said there was no cellular telephone service and they couldn’t find out any information. King went outside of the crawl space and into their garage. Once there, he turned on the radio and went back into the crawl space with his wife who is 7 months pregnant. Neither of the Kings had ever experienced being in a tornado.

King stated that he moved to Joplin to accept a job with a battery manufacturer after graduating from college. His wife is a native of West Palm Beach.