Christy Bratcher, left, was asleep in a friend?s mobile home on E. Green Hill Road about 4:30 p.m. Friday while another friend, Brittany Gay, right, was following coverage of the worsening storms. Gay, 21, kept calling Bratcher, 24, until she woke up, jumped in her car and sped away, followed seconds later by two others who were occupying the mobile home, Brian Scott and Bobby Cantrell. Within minutes of the telephone alert, a tornado took direct aim on the mobile home and destroyed it. ?I owe my life to my friend,? Bratcher said.
