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I can hear that he's getting closer.

I'm in the corner, tucked around the corner,

and I know eventually he's going to get to me.

Real people.

At that moment, I realized this is a tornado.

I'm going to be in it, and I've got probably five seconds to figure out what to do next.

Who faced death?

I'm forced at gunpoint to stay on my knees, guns at the base of my neck.

And live to tell how. And when I stood up, I found that the wound to my stomach was pretty bad,

as I had to pick up my intestines that were now on the outside of me.

This is I survived.

This is I survived.

It's October 2007 in Baja, Mexico.

Lori and Pat are on vacation in Baja in their RV.

Unable to find their beachside campground, they stopped to ask directions.

There was a little store there, and so we popped into the store and asked if that was the way to the place that we were after. And they said, oh yeah, go right up that road there.

So we took the RV up this very steep hill.

Once we got to the top of this, we found out we were in a field.

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