GRANBURY, Tex. — “There used to be a house there.”
Wayne McKethan, Granbury’s city manager, pointed at a bare slab surrounded by debris, all that was left Thursday after a tornado tore through the Rancho Brazos subdivision.
It was one of at least 10 tornadoes that hit North Texas overnight, but this one killed at least six people and left 97 of the 110 houses and trailer homes in the neighborhood badly damaged or destroyed. Hunks of sheet metal had molded themselves around splintered trees and could be seen hanging from power lines, and the only question for some of the officials here is how anyone escaped alive.
“You’re amazed at how many people got out of it,” said Nin Hulett, the mayor pro tem of Granbury. “It makes you just want to get on your knees and pray.” The subdivision is technically outside of the city limits, he said, but “we’re one big family out here.”