ORE CITY, Texas — John Lanser said he heard a roaring whir and looked out his bedroom window just as a tornado made its way toward him. He was in his camper in Lake O’ the Pines alongside his wife Jeanie, and they had little time to react.
“Well, I just laid on top of her, I put my big arms on top of her head and I said, ‘Hang on. We’re going for a ride,’ and we did,” Lanser said.
The Lansers are from Dubuque, Iowa, and they come to Texas to spend six months each year. They are three months into their fifth visit, which has now been upended by a tornado.
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