March 2 to 6 is Severe Weather Awareness Week in Kansas. Two Marion residents learned more than they ever wanted to know about severe weather in 2007, and offered tips to be prepared.
Marion residents Chelsi and Javan Koehn lived in Greensburg on May 4, 2007 when the town was devastated by an F5 tornado that flattened 95% of the town and killed 11 people at 9:47 p.m.
It pretty well wiped the town off the map,” Chelsi Koehn said.
The Koehns purchased their home one month to the day before the deadly storm hit. Chelsi was nine months pregnant at the time.
(Read more: Marion County RECORD)
