CNN
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Misty Drope was anxious. As she went about her day on Friday, March 14, a feeling of dread accompanied her. Severe thunderstorms were coming that night to her town of Paragould, Arkansas — she’d been hearing about them all week on the news. Tornadoes were likely.
“I’m trying to tell myself that there’s no reason to be anxious,” Drope recalled. “But I’m just so anxious today and that’s not my personality.”
When she returned home to her husband, Bruce, and 19-year-old daughter, Keely, the family did what any lifelong Arkansans would do: They prepared for the worst.
It was far from their first experience with ominous…
