Man's well-timed text message to his parents may have saved their lives ahead of tornado

I sent *** text message and said, Hey, I think this is probably going to be pretty bad. He probably ought to be heading to the basement sometime in the next 10 minutes or so. And good thing he did because his father said five minutes later, the storm was on top of their home on Milton Road in Lewistown. The storm destroyed their home and much more on their property spreading it as far as the eye can see two pretty good sized machine sheds on the other side of the road that are both completely gone and there was their fifth wheel camper was in one of them and it's over here back behind us now and it just kind of rolled it out across the field. Mike mccormick's parents hid in the basement, debris piled in the staircase and the cars in the garage almost blocked the entrance too. Yeah, the car and the truck were in the garage and, uh, both of them moved *** little bit. The car actually moved just barely into the house. So, uh, where the, the stairway access is to go to the basement if it had gone another few feet it would have pretty much been over that hole. This isn't their first time experiencing *** tornado. They saw one before in 1995 they lifted the roof on the house and one of the garage walls fell out and, you know, in *** big deal to put it back and, yeah, this one, of course, *** lot more, *** lot more damage than the one before that was easily fixed. And this one, I think we're probably just gonna end up, you know, taking this thing off and either rebuilding here or doing something different, regardless of the damage. They are in good spirits and thankful for the community support. We've had *** lot of people stopping by this morning to offer help and *** lot of farmers, you know, offering equipment and different things. So, you know, that's what typically happens around here is everybody kind of starts coming together and uh you pool resources and whatever you need to do and, you know, eventually you kind of get past all the, you know, it's just kind of *** pain but you get by it.