OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – Amy and Jonny Wooddell had been married just four months. One May day in 2010, their future was suddenly, shockingly in jeopardy.

“I was dizzy. I was nauseous and I couldn’t walk straight,” Amy recalls.

Amy suffered a brain stem stroke at age 24. It was misdiagnosed at first. After all, who thinks a young, healthy dancer could have a stroke?

Amy was in a coma for several days, and in the hospital for weeks. When she began to talk again, she had one request.

“She just wanted an orange popsicle,” Jonny says.

Amy finally got to down a box of orange popsicles after she entered a rehab facility.

“I can still see her smile with her orange all over her face,” Jonny says.

It was a sign that Amy was beating the huge odds against her. Last year, the Wooddells marked the anniversary of Amy’s stroke with friends at home eating what else? Orange popsicles.

GRANDVIEW, Mo. — On this already stormy day in the Midwest, we look back at a storm that killed forty-four people 56 years ago Monday, the Ruskin Heights tornado.

“I can almost remember moment by moment everything that happened that day- that night, the next day, and so-on down the road,” said Beverly Michael.

Beverly Michael was just getting off the school bus when she noticed things looked strange outside.

“It was really windy, and very funny looking.  The sky and everything,” she said.

Beverly didn’t think much of it, so she and her family went about their normal evening at their motel, the Circle H Ranch House Motel.

“After dinner on Monday nights we always watched ‘I Love Lucy,’ so we were watching that when they interrupted the program and told us about the storms,” Beverly explained.

HARRISONVILLE, Mo. — A Harrisonville company said its one-of-a kind product can save lives, should a tornado hit and it is just starting its production line to make the first deployable shelter.

Mike Vogt, President of Staying Home, said, “It’s frankly a little bit humbling.  It’s, you know, almost an honor that we’ve been blessed to come up with his idea.”

Despite it being about 2,000 pounds, the idea is an easily deployable tornado shelter called “Hide-Away.” Vogt said battle scars mark where its been tested and never failed at a testing facility out-of-state.

Inside, Vogt said a handful of adults or up to 15 kids can stay safe from mother nature’s wrath.

Vogt said the biggest concern people worry about is lift.  But he said this shelter will be bolted down in concrete in the back and then in the front with preset anchors.