Amy Harris lost her left leg in a Kentucky tornado 10 years ago. She told FOX Weather her story.
She was visiting her friend's mobile home in East Bernstadt, KY on March 2, 2012. She was aware of the threat of severe weather but decided to go ahead and hang out with her friend.
About 7 p.m., her phone rang. It was her mom who, with terror in her voice, told Amy a tornado was headed right for her and her friend, and they needed to get out of the mobile home immediately.
By that time, skies were getting dark, and the wind was quickly picking up, so they knew it was too late to leave and decided to take shelter in the hallway of the mobile home.
When reaching the hallway, they could hear loud noises coming from outside, and they knew that the tornado was there. The next thing Amy remembers is emergency personnel getting to her. She was alert but couldn’t remember what happened between her kneeling down to take shelter and being found by rescuers. All she remembers was yelling for he...