Children sang ‘You are my Sunshine’ as roof came off

Those who survived the massive tornado that smashed through an Oklahoma City suburb described racing for shelter only to emerge scarred and bloodied on a moon-like landscape of debris.

Alarms had sounded as the black funnel bore down on the suburb of Moore in the middle of the afternoon, but no one anticipated the massive destruction that left dozens of people dead.

As devastating as the tornado was, the quick thinking of some prevented the death toll from going higher.