The Land family
Dr. Mitch Land and his wife were on their way to Dallas-Fort Worth
airport to pick up his son’s family joining them for a delayed Christmas
celebration when he got a startling text from his daughter.
“Tornadoes have taken our house,” the text read. A terrible feeling
gripped his heart, the same feeling he had several years ago after his
son was hit and killed by a drunk driver, he conveyed to CBN News.
This can’t be real, he thought.
His daughter texted back and said, “Yes, it’s true. The lights went
out at the house and it is completely dark but the roof is gone over the
study and windows shattered in the master bedroom.”
Overview of destruction on their street
She informed him that her house across the street in Rowlett, Texas, was completely destroyed.
The reason for Dr. Land’s grave concern was he and his wife left 22
family members at the house when they headed to the airport, including
his 82-year-old mother. They had four generations under one roof when
the tornado bore down with incredible fury.
Dr. Mitch Land is dean of the School of Communication and the Arts at Regent University.
“Driving in the car I didn’t know how many were going to be alive,
how many were going to be dead or injured. When we got to the house we
wept with joy that God had spared them,” he told CBN.
“The sheer joy – that I didn’t have to bury another child – was
overwhelming. We just wept with joy that God spared our children; we
were grateful to the Lord.”
After they embraced with tears, Dr. Land learned the terrifying details of the near-disaster.
“They heard the sirens and they thought, it’s just the
sirens…sometimes those things go off. They didn’t really believe it.
They looked outside and saw things getting unusually dark really quick.”
They heard wind noise and thought it was just another storm. They heard the sirens five minutes before the
Roof torn off
tornado struck.
All 22 crammed into a 15-foot-long hallway between the kitchen and the garage.
“My son-in-law hovered over my 82 year old mother and his grandmother
and tried to shelter one of his children. Doors were trying to fly
open. The older grandchildren held on to those doors for dear life. One
of them almost got sucked out of the house,” he told CBN.
“They were crying out to God, praying for safety. The kids were screaming and shaking and my mother was absolutely terrified.”
“Had any of those kids not been in that space they might easily have been taken.”
“My daughter and son-in-law across the street’s house was completely
destroyed. If they had been in their bedroom they would have been
killed. Their roof was torn off and everything in that room was sucked
out of the house.
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