Count to five. One…two…three…four…five. It’s not much time if you’re doing something fun, but it can be a great deal of time if you’re going through a traumatic event.
That’s how long it took for what was then classified as an F5 tornado to go over the Hesston Pizza Hut in 1990, taking the dining room, but leaving two drinks and straws on the counter, as well as leaving everyone hiding in a restaurant bathroom and cooler with their lives.
“It sounded like 10 freight trains all at once,” said then-assistant manager at Pizza Hunt Jon Anderson of Newton. “It’s very loud. I looked up at the ceiling, and you could see what appeared to be the ceiling move. You could tell we were being hit. It was very quick.”
(Read more: Harvey County Now)
