nearly a year after the Good Friday tornadoes — on the terrifying and religious experience of being in the middle of a storm on Murfreesboro's Greenway with nothing to hold on to but a tree and his faith.
"The best introductory sentence that I can think of for my experience of the storm was the sense that there were angels above me that looked exactly as if they were performing a ballet," he said before a small gathering of survivors at a Greenhouse Ministries event aimed at commemorating the anniversary of the April 10, 2009, tornadoes.
The event was held outside the Greenhouse Ministries headquarters on South Spring Street Friday morning and was attended by several families who were helped by Greenhouse following the 2009 storms, as well as several local leaders. In addition to sharing stories and fellowship, the group enjoyed a spaghetti lunch.
Young, who is the minister of North Boulevard Church of Christ, recalled how he headed out around noon on April 10 a year ago to run on the city's greenway, a network of recreational trails along the Stones River.
The weather was warm and balmy when he went out, but it quickly became more ominous, bringing rain and hail with hit.
"I think about how naive I was as I was running and it was hailing and there was lightning coming," he said. "On the other hand, there wasn't a good place to go."
For a moment, Young said, he sat down in a ditch near a tree. It was hailing heavily but he was skipping pieces of hail across the Stones River.
Then, there was a deafening silence.
"I looked up thinking this is just too still ... something is not right," Young said. The silence was soon broken. "My gut was saying that it is not a train, but my brain was telling me it couldn't be a tornado.
"The last thing I remember before it hit was seeing a car fly through the air through the trees, hearing honking horns and watching the transformers explode. At that point I realized I had just a few seconds before it would be upon me."
"The best introductory sentence that I can think of for my experience of the storm was the sense that there were angels above me that looked exactly as if they were performing a ballet," he said before a small gathering of survivors at a Greenhouse Ministries event aimed at commemorating the anniversary of the April 10, 2009, tornadoes.
The event was held outside the Greenhouse Ministries headquarters on South Spring Street Friday morning and was attended by several families who were helped by Greenhouse following the 2009 storms, as well as several local leaders. In addition to sharing stories and fellowship, the group enjoyed a spaghetti lunch.
Young, who is the minister of North Boulevard Church of Christ, recalled how he headed out around noon on April 10 a year ago to run on the city's greenway, a network of recreational trails along the Stones River.
The weather was warm and balmy when he went out, but it quickly became more ominous, bringing rain and hail with hit.
"I think about how naive I was as I was running and it was hailing and there was lightning coming," he said. "On the other hand, there wasn't a good place to go."
For a moment, Young said, he sat down in a ditch near a tree. It was hailing heavily but he was skipping pieces of hail across the Stones River.
Then, there was a deafening silence.
"I looked up thinking this is just too still ... something is not right," Young said. The silence was soon broken. "My gut was saying that it is not a train, but my brain was telling me it couldn't be a tornado.
"The last thing I remember before it hit was seeing a car fly through the air through the trees, hearing honking horns and watching the transformers explode. At that point I realized I had just a few seconds before it would be upon me."
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