NEWBURGH, Ind. (WEHT) -- November 5th, 2005, was ending like an average day for Charlie and Betty Hunter. They went out to eat, then. returned home.

"I had over eaten a little bit, maybe I was uncomfortable so I went to bed and I was sitting around looking at the TV, but the TV kept getting interrupted," Charlie Hunter said.

Those interruptions were Wayne Hart's warnings about the approaching storm.

“As soon as we started down to the basement, the so-called train noise that everybody speaks of,” Hunter said. “It started as a kind of a light rumble, but by the time we got to the foot of the stairs, it's kinda hard to explain the audible level that had changed. It went from just a rumble to just almost devastation."

The couple went to the basement closet. 30 seconds later they began to f

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