![]() Everything,” said Rick.īut they no longer cared about anything in their home. “ Everything we’d worked for our whole life was gone. The bathroom was the only thing untouched. They walked out of the bathroom to see the rest of their home, which had been passed down for generations, completely destroyed. We could hear things flying and breaking… It was scary,” said Sonya. “I’ll never forget Brandon praying like crazy. It was so wide that you couldn’t see left or right around it,” said Rick.Īs the tornado sirens went off, the three of them ran back inside to a small bathroom in the middle of the house. “We could see the tornado, we didn’t know what it was. They could see houses and trees being torn up in the distance. They went out to the front porch and saw cars speeding down the road. Sonya and Rick Terry were at home with their son Brandon when the storm rolled in. Dealing with it on a daily basis is hard,” he said.Ĭecil (left) and husband Landan (right) Sonya and Rick Terry Sometimes when it’s storming, he hears ambulances. He avoids watching disaster-related media and is triggered by certain smells that remind him of the tornado. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a woman jump. He saw people on the top floor of Mercy hospital screaming for help to get down. Weise-Cornish continued walking to meet with his coworker’s family. He finally received a text from his mom saying that she was safe. “‘ He didn’t do this, a tornado did,'” he yelled back in response. “‘God, why have you done this to me,'” Weise-Cornish heard a bloodied woman proclaim. He’ll always remember the things he saw on that walk. They changed direction and the woman got Weise-Cornish and his coworker as close as she could to the hospital, letting them walk the rest of the way. Weise-Cornish was convinced his parents were dead. A man checking where vehicles were going told them those apartments were destroyed. ![]() Janis Joplin: Days & Summers is available to pre-order now at the special pre-publication price.They headed to the Hampshire Terrace apartments to find Weise-Cornish’s parents. ![]() We hope you enjoy this behind-the-scenes perspective on the exciting new edition from Genesis. With an introduction by Grace Slick and an afterword by Kris Kristofferson, the book's list of nearly 40 contributors includes Big Brother bandmates Peter Albin and Dave Getz, Jefferson Airplane members Jack Casady and Jorma Kaukonen, musicians Mick Fleetwood, Chrissie Hynde, Tom Jones, Taj Mahal, Michelle Phillips and Jimmy Page, talk show host Dick Cavett, as well as siblings Laura and Michael Joplin. ![]() Written by the people who really knew Janis and those inspired by her, the book's in-depth text provides a fascinating, new account of the singer's extraordinary life. "I've always loved women from Texas, cause they are bright and funny, rowdy.they know how to take care of themselves." - Grace Slick "Watching her (perform) you were transported somewhere else for a delicious while." - Dick Cavett "It's hard to remember what I had for breakfast this morning.but I remember the first time I heard Janis sing." - Jorma Kaukonen "An explosion.a storm of notes.Hurricane Janis." - Henry Diltz "To listen to her today is to feel every bit of what you felt 50 years ago." - Jack Casady These comments and reflections are taken from excerpts of the many new interviews conducted during the making of Days & Summers, an official limited edition published with the Janis Joplin estate. As we flip through, recollections from some of her closest friends and peers offer new and intimate insights. The original scrapbook of Janis Joplin is shown on camera here for the first time.
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