But along with her husband and two children, she took shelter in the closet. Shortly after 2 a.m, the fierce winds quieted down. Becker took a peek outside, but in the pitch dark she couldn’t see anything and went back to sleep.
“One street behind us, the top of almost every home was taken off. We were very close,” she said. But Becker considers herself one of the lucky ones.
Most of the people who lost their lives were in the county seat of Bowling Green, a vibrant, close-knit community where residents take pride in announcing it was recently named among America’s top places to live by
