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How do we survive surviving? By Ann SanCartier for Firestorm

Imagine.  You head to pick up your child from school and abruptly, the only thing separating you, your daughter and your sister from 200 mile per hour winds are two collapsed walls supporting each other in a triangular formation. You hold your daughter with adrenaline-induced strength while you scream and pray as the realistic fear of being sucked up into a monster overwhelms you. That’s what happened to a family I spoke with who survived the Moore, Oklahoma Tornado. As they cowered for protection at Briarwood Elementary, what we now know to be an E5 tornado, whipped them with flying debris leaving their feet, arms, and heads lacerated by its ferocity. As this mother shared her traumatic experience with me, she related that her sister was waiting in their van parked outside the school. When the school advised her that a...

 

 


 

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Grant Rampy PR and Media ExpertGrant Rampy is Director of Public Relations for Abilene Christian  University. Prior to his arrival at Abilene in 2009, Grant was a nationally recognized broadcast journalist. During 10 years as a correspondent for Tribune Broadcasting, he covered the White House, Pentagon and Capitol Hill, providing nightly on-air reports for the nation's Top 20 television markets.

Rampy was a Chicago-based national correspondent for Fox News Channel from 1997 to 1999. He has also worked as a reporter in Tennessee, Indiana, Kentucky and Missouri. He began his broadcast career in Abilene with KTAB-TV in 1988. Rampy studied accounting at Lipscomb University in Nashville before transferring to ACU, where he majored in mass communication.

He and his wife, Karen, have four children: Janey, Luke, Kate and Nate.

 

 

 

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