This story was updated on Monday, March 17, 2025, at 7:57 p.m.
Kim Atchison was hunkered down in her grandmother’s storm shelter with her 5-year-old grandson Saturday night in their tiny Alabama hometown of Plantersville when her husband and son raced in.
“Get down; get all the way down to the bottom of the cellar,” they told her, saying they could see a twister coming.
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