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By Rose Stricker ( Contact )   May 11, 2010

During our daily weather update Monday at 5:15pm CDT, Gary Cannalte informed me that tornadoes would be passing through Oklahoma City right around rush hour. My thoughts immediately went to a friend of mine who lives somewhere in that area, so I e-mailed him from the studio.

"Everything and everyone okay where you are?"

Within minutes, he replied. They were having baseball-sized hail, he wrote. A twister had "bounced right over me", he wrote.

And he attached this photo which he'd taken on his iPhone:

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I got chills.

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