Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman
/"Just before the tornado hit our house, the wind kind of died down and a small amount of hail fell. The bathroom drains started making a sucking sound just before the tornado hit our house. It sounded as if the furniture was being moved about above us and then the windows started breaking. There was a big sucking vacuum feeling in my ears and then the roof and everything above us was gone."
This is from a letter to Ivy Ruckman, the author of Night of the Twisters, from her cousin Florence. Florence lived through the real night of the Twisters - June 3, 1980 - when seven deadly tornadoes touched down in Grand Island, Nebraska. This is the story of what happened that night.