Amid the
tragedy in Oklahoma, one woman who lost everything says God answered both of her
prayers.
CBS News spoke with Barbara Garcia in the wake of the devastating tornado Monday,
woman’s suburban neighborhood now nothing more than flattened homes and rubble.
Badly shaken but resilient, explains how she is okay but that her dog was torn
from her.
“I was sitting
on the stool holding by dog — this was the game plan all through the years, [to]
go in that little bathroom,” Garcia began. “The electric went off in the
bathroom about the same time I felt the stool come up out of the floor. And I
rolled around a little bit, and when it stopped…that fresh stove cooker is what
I saw.”
Garcia’s arms
appear to be badly cut in multiple places, but she spoke first of her dog.
“I hollered for
my little dog and he didn’t answer, didn’t come, so I know he’s in here
somewhere,” she said, scanning the apocalyptic landscape.
Garcia then
addressed the tornado itself, saying it came and was gone in a flash.
“I thought,
‘well, I’m okay!’ And I had some stuff on top of me and I started wiggling…”
she said.
Interviewer
Anna Werner interrupted: “Are you able to comprehend what happened here?”
“I know
exactly what happened here!” Garcia responded. After a beat she added, “This is
life in the big city.”
But that’s
when the most incredible thing happened. One of the CBS crew says in
astonishment, “the dog!”
The camera then pans to an enormous pile of a rubble, the little dog whimpering and trying to burrow his way out.
Garcia
immediately rushes to the area, trying to move bricks and what appears to be
mangled electronic wiring off of her pet.
“Help me!” she
pleads, and one of the crew rushes to do just that.
Beginning to
cry as she pulls her dog to safety, Garcia says “thank God” with inexplicable
relief at seeing her dog relatively unscathed.
Garcia
immediately rushes to the area, trying to move bricks and what appears to be
mangled electronic wiring off of her pet.
“Help me!” she
pleads, and one of the crew rushes to do just that.
Beginning to
cry as she pulls her dog to safety, Garcia says “thank God” with inexplicable
relief at seeing her dog relatively unscathed.
“Well I
thought God just answered one prayer, to let me be okay, but he answered both of
them,” she remarks with a smile, petting her dog. “Because this was my second
prayer.”
Watch the
remarkable video from CBS News, below:
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