Into the Storm Page #4

There it is now.

You can see the wall cloud.

It's lower as it transitions to the east.

- Just south. Right behind the base.

- Wow. Look at that.

PETE:

Come on, baby.

Come on, baby. (Some on, baby.

[HORN BLARING "DIXIE"]

[REEVIS WHOOPS]

PETE:

What are those idiots doing?

REEVIS:
Aw, this is a beauty!

- Whoo!

Yeah! Twista Hunterz, baby!

Get in the field! Get in the field!

JACOB:

Look at that funnel.

We got a vortex. Come on.

Here we go, guys. Here we go.

LUCAS:

There's debris.

- Jake, you getting this?

- Oh, yeah.

MAN:

There it is.

This tornado just touched down.

We can see it from here.

It's ripping up trees.

It's ripping up everything in sight.

If you're above ground, you need to get

to a storm shelter or a safe place right now.

TOM:

I leave you with John Updike's words:

"You cannot help but learn more

as you take the world into your hands.

Take it up reverently...

for it is an old piece of clay,

with millions of thumbprints on it. "

Oh, great.

I guess we should, uh-

I guess we should start finishing up, then.

Whoo! Look at the size of that sucker!

Look how fast it's spinning, man!

[THUNDER CRASHING]

Sh*t! Man, that was close!

Dude. My arm hairs.

No. Dude, it's your "hairs" hairs!

- They're standing up on your head, bro!

- Ha-ha-ha.

PETE:

Come on. Come on.

ALLISON:
That's the vorticity stretching.

- We're on, we're on. Let's move!

- I wanna report a tornado on the ground

- Let's go.

There's no damage yet,

but it's in a semi-residential area.

About 15 miles to the north of Silverton,

Oklahoma.

Seniors! Stand up!

Stand up!

We salute you!

[ALL CHEERING]

All right! Ah.

[SIREN BLARING]

Go inside, guys.

- Stay calm! Move inside in an orderly fashion!

TOM:
Everybody, back inside.

GARY:
To the main building.

- Dude, come on.

GARY:

Quickly as you can.

Sh*t!

[ALL CHATTERING]

Here we go! Quickly! Come on!

Here we go! Come on, this way.

ALLISON [OVER RADIO]:

Pete, give me an update.

PETE:
I'm gonna find the intercept

near Grant and Malcolm.

- Approach it from the east.

DARYL:
Jake, you're out of focus. Tighten up.

ALLISON:
You need to position yourself.

This thing is moving fast.

I need a clear path.

I got a field coming up on your right

that should have access.

DARYL:

Give me a second to calculate rotation speed.

PETE:

Make it fast.

DARYL:
Wind speed is 140.

PETE:
Direction?

Southeast.

- Lucas, we good?

- Yeah. We good. We good.

PETE:

You getting this, Jacob?

Oh, yeah. Sure.

PETE:

Okay. Ready for intercept.

ALLISON:

Daryl, pull over.

REEVIS:
Get out there, dog! Get out there!

- Look at me!

- I'm in a tornado! I'm in a tornado!

REEVIS:
Whoo!

[DONK WHOOPING & REEVIS LAUGHING]

- Yeah!

REEVIS:
Oh, my God!

We're in the path! We're in the path!

Okay. Anchor down. How we looking?

ALLISON:
It's heading right for you.

DARYL:
Get ready, guys.

Oh, sh*t.

Oh, sh*t! Oh, my God!

Jacob! Don't you lose it on me, you hear?

Hold on, boys!

JACOB:

Sh*t! You guys, come on, now!

[JACOB SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY]

This is crazy, you guys. This is nuts.

Come on, come on! God!

Sh*t, that thing is crazy!

Hang on!

It's coming right! Go! Go on!

[GRUNTS]

Damn it!

It dodged to our left.

ALLISON:

Oh, sh*t.

It's headed for the school.

Everybody! Okay, 90!

Here we go. Here we go. Keep moving.

All the way down the hall.

Keep this door open. Come on.

TOM:
Move on in, folks. Move in.

- Come on.

TOM:

Jesus.

Everybody into the storm shelter area.

- Keep this hallway clear.

- Come on.

- Make sure nobody's behind us

- All the way down!

TOM:

Go on, all the way in.

Trey! Where's Donnie?

Uh, I don't exactly know.

Get away from the window.

[STUDENTS SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]

[ALARM BLARING]

TREY:

Tornado!

Get going! Run!

[ALL SCREAMING]

Come on! Come on! Let's go! Go, go, go!

It's okay!

All the way down the hall! Keep going!

All the way down! Keep moving.

Come on. Fast as you can!

Okay, get down!

Let's go. Come on.

Face the wall! Cover your heads!

Stay down!

Heads down, everybody!

Everyone stay down!

Get your heads down!

Get your head down.

[GLASS BREAKING]

GARY:

Stay against the wall!

BOY:

No, no! Oh, my God!

Trey!

Dad!

[ALL SCREAMING]

[GIRL 1 WHIMPERING]

[STUDENTS COUGHING]

GARY:

Anybody hurt?

GIRL 2:

We're all right.

[GIRL 3 SOBBING]

- Trey?

TREY:
Yeah. I'm good.

You ready?

[CELL PHONE RINGING]

Oh, hey, can you hold this? You got it?

- My dad.

KAITLYN:
Are you gonna answer it?

No. You kidding me?

I missed the whole grad ceremony. No.

KAITLYN:

Is he gonna be pissed at you?

Nah. You know what?

Trey will have filmed it.

Oh, come on, pick up.

- Trey, give me your phone.

TREY:
Yeah.

[CELL PHONE RINGS]

- Trey?

- Donnie, you okay?

Dad? Yeah, yeah, I'm fine.

Where are you?

Dad, Trey can handle all the filming and stuff.

It's not, like, a problem.

Never mind about that. Are you safe?

Tell me where you are.

Safe? Yeah. I'm at the old paper mill.

- On Garner?

- Yeah.

Listen, it's really important that you-

- Dad? Dad?

- Donnie?

- Dad?

- Stay where you are-

Donnie?

[LINE BEEPS]

- Donnie!

KAITLYN:
What happened?

It just cut out. Here.

[THUD NEARBY]

DONNIE:

Whoa.

- Maybe we should go.

DONNIE:
Heh. Yeah.

[BOARDS BANGING & WIND WHISTLING]

- What is that?

DONNIE:
I don't know.

[KAITLYN SCREAMS]

DONNIE:
Come on!

- Aah!

MAN:

It's all right. It's all right.

- Where are you going?

- I gotta get my son. He's out there.

[SIRENS WAILING IN DISTANCE]

Oh, my God.

MAN 1 [ON SCREEN]:

From our vantage point...

the damage could have been

a whole lot worse.

The tornado just narrowly grazed

the school...

Daryl, are you hearing this?

MAN 1:

- as you can see from this footage.

The National Weather Service is currently

tracking a second supercell...

moving in our direction.

I know it's hard to imagine...

A second cell.

- This is gonna be bad.

- How can there be another system?

I've never seen anything like this.

These updrafts are insane.

DARYL:

Got downed power lines.

- We're stuck.

- It's all right. I'm about to make his day.

MAN 2 [ON SCREEN]: We're gonna send it

back to Don Lemon in the studio.

Heads up, Lucas. Live wire.

What else we got?

Activity heading toward the center of town.

Second cell?

ALLISON:

It's organized. The hook echo is huge.

I wanna set up

as close to the perimeter as possible.

I wanna be in the middle.

- I'm not gonna miss it

- I hear you.

DARYL:
Jake, how you doing?

JACOB [OVER RADIO]: Never better.

You hang in there, honey.

That was nothing. Here you go.

Send that to my GPS. Let's roll. Come on.

You want a coffee with that, boss?

[KAITLYN COUGHING]

DONNIE:

Kaitlyn?

Kaitlyn!

[KAITLYN GROANS]

DONNIE:
Are you hurt?

- Yeah. My leg.

DONNIE:

Okay. Your leg?

Here, let me see it.

KAITLYN:

It really hurts.

- Ugh.

- Hold on.

Okay. All right, hang on.

- Don't touch it.

- Ow.

I'm gonna tie this, okay?

[KAITLYN WINCES]

- Be careful.

- Sorry.

[KAITLYN GASPS]

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