How a giant restaurant refrigerator saved nine lives from US tornado

How a giant restaurant refrigerator saved nine lives from US tornado

As the thunder roared outside and the lights inside Chuck's Dairy Bar began to blink, owner Tracy Harden realized the tornado conditions forecasted for her small Mississippi town Friday night were far more severe than she realized. "Cooler!" yelled out Harden, and she, her husband and their employees scrambled into a giant gray metal box -- normally used to keep the restaurant's food refrigerated, but which that night saved nine lives in the sha

Huddled in giant refrigerator, nine lives saved from US tornado

ROLLING FORK (UNITED STATES) - As the thunder roared outside and the lights inside Chuck's Dairy Bar began to blink, owner Tracy Harden realized the tornado conditions forecasted for her small Mississippi town Friday night were far more severe than she realized.

They survive the Mississippi tornado by hiding in a restaurant fridge

“The lights flashed, I screamed fridge,” she describes.

In a restaurant in Mississippi, nine lives saved from the tornado by a fridge

When the lights at Chuck's Dairy Bar started flashing and suddenly the skies rumbled, Tracy Harden knew that the tornado forecast for her small town in Mississippi on Friday night was going to be much more dangerous than she thought.