Tornado Spares Family in Tonganoxie

0:00It's May 1st, I'm Cory with the story, and this is Kansas News today, your AI-powered local news. A tornado slammed into a family's property in Tanganoxi, Kansas, early Monday morning, smashing their barn, splitting a huge tree in half, and ripping off part of the front of their house. The Williams family, Aaron, his wife, their two-year-old kid, and pets, were all the sleep inside, but woke up safe and unhurt. This hit bucks the old local legend called the Tanganoxi Split, where folks wear twisters just skip the town. The storm dipped low for a short path, but left serious wreckage before lifting off. Meanwhile, this spring marched the wildest severe weather season ever for the Kansas City area, with the National Weather Service confirming 19. Tornados so far. Neighbors have pitched in to help the families sort through the mess, and everyone's amazed, no one got touched. They're pushing forward with cleanup, rebuilding what they can, still hunting for that missing porch overhang somewhere on the land. Storms like this remind us, nature don't play favorites.