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Debra Fuller thought the only things between her and her trip to Florida were a pedicure and a trip to Walmart. She was unaware her life was about to be turned upside down.
Fuller set out to run her errands without hearing the weather report. Leaving Walmart, she noticed that the sky had darkened and decided to skip the pedicure and head home because she didn’t want to drive in the rain.
“I said, ‘I’m going to get some Chinese food, and I’m going back home,’ ” she recalled
Even though she had lived in Oklahoma for 23 years, Fuller never witnessed a tornado, let alone experience the devastation.
At home, Fuller headed upstairs and prepared to eat her lunch. She called her husband, Arthur, an employee at Arnold Air Force Base, but after only a moment the phone went dead Fuller said she heard the sound of a train and ran for cover.
“As I was running to the bathroom, the glass was breaking behind me,” she said.
Wedging her foot against the toiler, Fuller barricaded herself in the upstairs bathroom.
“All I could do was holler ‘Jesus help me, help me Jesus, help me Jesus,’” Fuller said. “Finally, I just said, ‘Lord, please forgive me for my sins.’ I just thought I was gone.”
As she prayed for the twister to end, Fuller saw a bright light under the door. Moments later, the rain came and the storm was over. Miraculously, she made it out without a scratch on her. Her house was not so fortunate.
“When I walked out that door, there were no walls,” Fuller said. “There was nothing. Everything was gone.”
Fuller and her husband moved into their new home on Thanksgiving. She feels obligated to share her story wherever she goes.
“God gave you a testimony, tell it,” Fuller said. “It might help somebody else, and that’s the way I look at this right now.”
Fuller is thankful for her new home, which is on the same property as the one destroyed last year. Her favorite part of her new home is the living room, where she reads her Bible every morning.
“I don’t want to forget,” Fuller said. “I don’t ever want to forget where God saved me, and I want to remember those things.”