Rick Douglass: A Survivor's Story
One amazing survivor's story was WREN radio reporter Rick Douglass, who was caught in the tornado after attempting to take shelter in an overpass, when attempting to report on the storm for the station. The tornado carried Douglass one block away. When he arrived at an area hospital, a nurse placed a cover over Douglas' face—believing he had perished—which he pulled off, to which Douglass says the nurse winced when that happened.
Douglas was found with dirt and debris covering his body, and in an interview with The History Channel's Wrath of God special on the tornado, it is said that Douglass found shards of debris in his skin for several years after the tornado and was left with a smell he described as "a mix of blood, guts, wood and metal" on him for several weeks.
Read more about this topic: 1966 Topeka Tornado
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