rick cawley joins us. you brought your family to that shelter to the school hoping that that was the safest place for you. really, you ended up walking right into the jaws of this thing. >> yeah. we had no idea that it was going to be a direct hit. but the building that we went to is made of solid concrete and it was a lot safer option than my house, which is less than -- about a third of a mile away. >> well, it's a good place. i want to know -- you were saying you didn't hear what a lot of people hear, that sound of a freight train that tornadoes make when you were in the building and you heard the weather coming at you, what was going on at that time? >> it was more of a kind of a mad scramble to find my children and my wife and we were all in the building, but we weren't all in the exact same area. we were trying to find each other and make sure we were going to be okay. >> did you think at some point in time when you heard the weather getting close to the school, maybe this is not the best place and w