MOSS, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man says his family is alive because of a concrete room that survived a tornado which destroyed the rest of their home.
With a twister bearing down on their rural home Sunday afternoon, Andrew Phillips told his wife to grab their two young children and get into the safest place they had: A small room built from concrete blocks.
The cinder-block room is all that survived, and the family emerged uninjured. The family had been living in the house only a few weeks.
Phillips says the safe room was one of the reasons they bought it.