shawn and mindy rickard bolted for a church. why did you go to the church? why not stay in your brick home? >> shawn rickard: i guess the good lord told us to leave, and we left. he was taking care of us. i can't tell you other than that. i don't know. >> pelley: seems likely, had they stayed, they would have been among at least 90 dead. no one remains missing. >> pat spoden: it was a beast of a storm. it was big, it was persistent, and it wasn't going to stop. nothing's going to stop this thing. >> pelley: hours before the storm, pat spoden was already worried. the 73-degree day his neighbors enjoyed made his stomach churn. >> spoden: and i've been doing this for 34 years. you have that gut feeling, like, "this is not good. it's not going to be a good day." >> pelley: it was too warm for december. spoden was working that night at the weather service in paducah, kentucky, where he dreaded these images of the storm. where red meets green, there is rotation. but what caught his eye was an area of high density in the sky. it was debris, trees, and homes and live