>> reporter: across the street, paul lord is recovering, wounded and seeing his home for the first time since the tornado erased it, with his whole family inside. >> my son come out and looked. the tornado was right there. he said, you can't make it. let's get inside. it sucked him -- or it threw him through the door and down the hall way. it threw me out in the street. all six of his family members survived. >> this is just nuts and bolts, bricks and sticks. we got all the family safe, and that's -- we're truly blessed. >> reporter: still, six people did die over the weekend. just a few miles northeast in a different part of oklahoma. >> the sirens messed up, i guess. a lot of people didn't get enough warning. >> the warning was out, but sirens didn't go off early sunday morning. lightning shorted them out in an earlier storm. then the ef-3 tornado with max