Mrs. Carol Crain of Groves, TX will never forget the night of November 7, 1957.  Around 9pm, Mrs. Crain went to pick up her sister in her jeep at the middle school on 39th street in Groves.  A football game that evening had been cancelled due to the impending bad weather.  Not long after she picked up her sister, Mrs. Crain heard a "sound like a locomotive" and saw the swirling winds heading for her jeep.  "It's the end of the world", she thought.  Mrs. Crain was then knocked unconcious, and the next thing she remembered was waking up in the center of the school football field - alone, and injured.  Her left clavicle had been broken when the tornado threw her a considerable distance into the field.  Unable to find her sisters, some passersby helped her in the search.  They finally found her underneath the back tire of the now mangled jeep, also injured, with gashes in her head.  "It was just like being in the movie Twister", Mrs. Crain recalled, but the tornado "could have wiped us all out".  Luckily, both her and her sister survived.  The tornado went on to kill 2 other people in Groves that evening, and injured dozens of others. 

  
The remains of Mrs. Crain's mangled jeep

Photos and survivor account used with permission by Mrs. Carol Crain