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Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Automotive
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College Student Was Driving Home When Tornado Struck. Before She Got Thrown from Car, She Told Mom, 'It's Taking Me'
Mya Grimes, a college student at Jackson State University, had a "near-death" experience when a tornado hit as she was driving last week The 20-year-old student said that her car was caught in the storm and spun in circles before being ejected from the vehicle "I really thought that was my last moment," she said about the terrifying experienceA college student is grateful to be alive after getting caught up in a tornado while she was driving last week. Mya Grimes, a rising senior at Jackson State University in Mississippi, was on her way to St. Louis, her hometown, when a tornado tore through the city and threw her out of her car on Friday, May 16. The 20-year-old college student had nearly reached her home when the storm caught up to her, according to ABC-affiliate WAPT. "I really thought that was my last moment," she told the outlet. Grimes said that the tornado broke the windows of her car and opened the driver's side door. Even though she said she was wearing a seat belt, she was ejected from the vehicle and "slid down the street 40 yards." Before the storm reached her, the student talked to her dad — who cautioned her to be careful, but get home if she could — according to local station KMOV. She also called her mom, Tina Grimes, but then her phone disconnected. 'When I answered the phone, I just wasn't prepared for what I heard on the other end," Tina told the outlet. After asking her daughter what was going on, to her terror, her daughter replied, "'It's taking me.' " "My car started spinning in circles and spinning in circles, and I was just literally terrified and holding on to my steering wheel for dear life," Mya told NBC affiliate KSDK. "The door opened and I flew out of my car." The student said that she was able to cling to a light pole as the gusts continued. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human-interest stories. In an Instagram post detailing her "near-death experience," Mya said that the paramedic she was able to flag down afterwards told her she was 'lucky to be alive.' 'I have gashes from the glass and sliding down the street," Mya wrote alongside images of the damage to her car. Fortunately, despite some minor injuries, she was otherwise unharmed. She went on to share that the incident has given her a new perspective that 'any moment could be our last." According to the National Weather Service, an EF3 tornado touched down in Clayton, Mo., and moved through the northern parts of St. Louis on May 16. It had winds up to 152 miles per hour. Read the original article on People
Yahoo
07-04-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Meteorologist unloads on fans' complaints about tornado warnings cutting into March Madness Final Four
It's not unusual for sports fans to get bent a bit out of shape when real-world news preempts live coverage of a major sporting event. Viewers of Memphis CBS affiliate WREG who had tuned in to watch Florida play Auburn in the Final Four on Saturday found themselves in that very situation. With tornadoes threatening that area, tornado warnings continued to pop up on the station and even cut into the audio during the game. That didn't leave some fans too happy, but WREG chief meteorologist Tyler Eliasen didn't want to hear the complaints and issued a scathing statement according to Geoff Calkins of The Daily Memphian. 'I don't want to hear one more comment about why we're covering up the volume of the game,' Eliasen said on the live broadcast. 'You can see the game. You're going to have to deal with my voice and then just deal with it again because we lost several people. Several people died Wednesday night and potentially this is saving someone's life in Dumas right now. 'This is still not in that path, not there yet, I should say, but it is a significant tornado, a confirmed tornado and it was very violent going into New Albany, Mississippi. So we're going to track this. It is what it is. Send me some emails later and we can chat more but this is what it is right now. Deal with it.' It isn't the first time that tornado warnings specifically have angered viewers. In 2019, during the NBA Finals, fans felt the wrath of a Virginia ABC-affiliate WSET weatherman who was unapologetic over his station's coverage of tornado warnings during Game 7. Fox 45's Jamie Simpson also went viral that same year for going off on fans of the show 'The Bachelor' after tornado coverage in Dayton, Ohio interrupted their viewing experience.
Yahoo
21-02-2025
- Yahoo
GA man sentenced for blowing up woman's house, threatening to have python eat her child
A Georgia man will spend the next 20 years in prison for conspiring to blow up a woman's house, threatening to feed her daughter to a python and more. Stephen Glosser, 38, pleaded guilty to charges including exploding a bomb at the coastal Georgia home. He was also ordered to pay $507,781 in restitution. According to court documents, Glosser and another man, Caleb Kinsey spent months illegally surveilling the victim 'with the intent to kill, injure, harass or intimidate' her. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] His guilty plea described that he conspired to shoot arrows into her front door, release a python into the home to eat her daughter, mail dog feces and dead rats to the home, scalp her and blow up the house. Speaking with ABC-affiliate WJCL, authorities said the woman and child living in the home had just moved in the day before the explosion, on Jan. 12, 2023. Bryan County Sheriff Mark Crowe told WJCL that one of the suspects and the woman had a prior relationship. Glosser found her home using internet searches based on an image the woman had previously given him. TRENDING STORIES: Young Thug wants back cars, cash and jewelry seized during YSL raid 2 found dead in Carroll County home identified as deputies search for shooter Charges dropped against GA mom, 2 others after autopsy says baby didn't die of hypothermia He and Kinsey bought exploding targets online and constructed a bomb, which they used to blow up the woman's home. After the bombing, Glosser had a cleaning crew clean his carpets to hide traces of the bomb-making materials. Kinsey was arrested in Louisiana on unrelated charges and is awaiting trial in south Georgia for the explosion. [SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
