Jeff Collinsworth said he can still hear Saturday's tornado in Valley View and his neighbor's piercing cries for help.
VALLEY VIEW â Support for tornado recovery has not been hard to find for Jeff Collinsworth. His family and loved ones have pitched in as he tackles the damage to his home of twenty years.The tornado that killed seven hit and struck newly developed homes before continuing its path in the Collinsworth neighborhood on County Rd 2133.'I looked to the West over here and I saw just a giant flash,' he said. 'I mean, I don't know, I can't even explain it.
But the neighbor's grandfather did not survive. Collinsworth said he had broken limbs, too. He said that emergency crews were slammed with calls and could not get there in time.A body of water authorities call a pond behind Collinsworth's house is where emergency crews found two dead children, a two and a five-year-old. Investigators said a tornado sucked the family out of their house.'My wife says either you stay or you go,' Nicolas Navarez said. 'I say...
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