Miracle in Kansas: Tornado Spared Lives

0:00An EF-2 tornado tore through Kansas on Monday night, April 13, 2026, first mashing four blocks in Ottawa before racing, 25 miles east to Hillsdale. It ripped off roofs, level buildings, and turned the shady acres RV park into a wreck, flipping mobile homes like toys. Earlier this week, Assad Marani, the 30-year-old owner of the Sunoko Lake Endale gas station, spotted the funnel cloud closing in. He snapped a quick photo and video before grabbing three customers and diving into the store's metal cooler, stocked with sodas and beer. Meanwhile, neighbors like Dejory and Paul Beatty heard the roar from their home nearby. They rushed to the basement just as hail pounded down, with the gas station can't be ending up in their yard. The storm lasted about three minutes, leaving power lines down, debris everywhere, and the RV park flooded, but no one lost their lives. Pure luck in. Carnado? Allie? Folks are calling it a miracle, cracking jokes about Mother Nature's fury while counting

1:01their blessings that everyone's still standing strong. Kansas News. Today, powered by AI bringing you what matters, I'm Cory with the story.