{"id":33290,"date":"2025-06-29T17:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T17:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularnews.pw\/?page_id=33290"},"modified":"2025-06-29T17:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T17:52:13","slug":"76-year-old-speaks-out-after-tornado-lifts-home-off-ground-with-her-inside","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/popularnews.pw\/?page_id=33290","title":{"rendered":"76-year-old speaks out after tornado lifts home off ground with her inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18476\" src=\"https:\/\/en33.usnews.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/images-64.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Florida woman is speaking out after she survived an EF-1 tornado that lifted her house off its foundation while she was inside.<\/p>\n<p>Deborah Mettler, 76, described the ordeal to ABC affiliate WFTS-TV in Tampa Bay, Florida, likening it to something straight out of a movie.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\"><ins class=\"adsbyadop_d6f93595-b1c2-4e79-824e-211cf3605e7c\"><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/ins><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt was really [akin to] a \u2018Wizard of Oz\u2019 experience,\u201d Mettler said, referencing the tornado scene in the classic 1939 movie.<\/p>\n<p>The dramatic event unfolded in Largo, Florida, north of St. Petersburg, on June 25 and was caught on Mettler\u2019s neighbor Lori Gill\u2019s Ring camera. Footage shows the moment Mettler\u2019s mobile home was lifted nearly completely off the ground for about 15 seconds by 110 mph winds before slamming back down.<\/p>\n<p>Mettler was in her home for the entire time and said she didn\u2019t know what had happened at first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t realize I was actually up in the air,\u201d Mettler said. \u201cI was too busy doing somersaults and getting thrashed from one side of the room, through the wall, to the other side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI ended up back here in the bedroom. I had been in what was a family room and stepped out, which was good, because it\u2019s no longer there at all,\u201d she continued. \u201cSo if I had stayed in that room, I don\u2019t know what would have happened to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\"><ins class=\"adsbyadop_2a4d5f5b-3f21-458e-8bad-4b5b1c1aa44b\"><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/ins><\/div>\n<p>Mettler walked away with only bruises after a neighbor helped her get out of her house.<\/p>\n<p>A neighbor named Kathy told WFTS, \u201cHow she survived it, it is unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Photos and video footage show the extensive damage to the city. About 40 to 50 residences at Ranchero Village and 10 to 15 in the Bay Ranch Manufactured Home Communities had minor to severe storm-related damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida woman is speaking out after she survived an EF-1 tornado that lifted her house off its foundation while she was inside. 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