Veronica Bowers is recovering at the hospital after an EF-3 tornado destroyed her home and work.
suffered broken ribs, a punctured lung and a small blood clot after a tornado tore through her home in Valley View, Texas.Despite her family property and workplace being destroyed, Veronica was able to shield her 10-month-old daughter Zolabelle from the storm.
Veronica was on the phone with her employees while holding Zolabelle. She told them to file people into the freezers, coolers, hallways and bathrooms to get them to safety. "Once it started picking the house up, that's when I knew we were in trouble. It picked up and flew 20 feet over trees, over cars, into a pond with everything in it," Veronica said. Everything included her, Zolabelle and four other people.
After the tornado lifted, her family climbed out of the rubble, but Veronica and Zolabelle were still trapped. She described it as the scariest thing she's ever experienced. Her biggest fear was losing Zolabelle.
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