The slow-moving storm blew through Stuttgart's Crestpark Nursing Home, where staff members and nearly 100 residents rode it out in the hallway.

As soon as the Crestpark staff discovered the storm was headed their way, they began moving residents into the hallway.

The building sustained massive damage, but miraculously everyone made it out without even a scratch. One look at the Crestpark Nursing Home and you quickly become aware just how bad this could have been.

Misty Cox, Crestwood Nursing Home Administrator
"If you see the patients rooms, you would agree it's a miracle."

All the 97 residents and staff escaped this disaster unharmed, but the storm left this building battered, shattered and in pieces.

"It makes me want to cry, but I'm very thankful that my staff did what they did because they are the ones that kept the patients safe, and of course God. We're just so lucky."

As soon as the storms passed, the staff immediately began to look for a place to evacuate their residents-they found it in the nearby Rice Bowling Center.

Don Boggs, Rice Bowling Center
"The best thing we could do was work to make everyone comfortable-mostly elderly people, were worried about their family and friends."

And while residents have already been transferred to other facilities around the state-work has already begun to clean up their home in Stuttgart. 

"I'm surprised at how well everybody's pulled together. I'm real proud of them."

The nursing home is working to get it's facility cleaned up so residents can return as soon as possible.

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