Saturday night, June 7th, we were traveling on Highway 30 from Oxford back home to New Albany. It was 9:00 and tornado warnings were out, especially in Oxford. The rain began to pour, and before we got to Etta we had a flat tire on the left front of the car. It was very dark with no light out that way, and we didn't know if we had a spare in this relatively new vehicle. My husband opened the trunk and looked for a spare and tools to change the tire. With our emergency flasher and headlights on, he looked under the front of the car, and unfortunately saw the tire which was badly damaged and smelled of burned rubber.

As we stood there in the rain we watched several cars pass by until a small car with a young man pulled over and asked if we needed help. We asked if he had a light so we could see, and he did. A few minutes later a man in a large pickup truck pulled over and positioned his truck with the headlights on the car. These two men had the tools to change our tire, and completely took over the task of working in the rain and the lightning of the western skies from the tornado watch.

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