‘Everything was gone,’ family home destroyed by tornado outside Melville
When the Simpsons and the Tebbs got together on Sunday, they couldn’t have known the frightening evening they were going to have, or the damage they would have to contend with in the days and weeks after.
Noeleen Tebb’s family and her daughter’s family, the Simpsons, live in the same farmyard, just outside Melville. On Sunday night they were all at Tebb’s home when the sky outside began to darken.
“The alert came on the TV set, so we kind of read it, but we were watching it out the back window … we were watching it build and then, you know, we just decided when we started seeing trees fly by that it was time to go to the bathroom,” said Tebb.
They all hunkered down in the bathroom of Tebb’s home as the storm raged around them.