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CNN Saturday Morning News
Interview With Paul Miller
Aired May 10, 2003 - 08:59 ET
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ARTHEL NEVILLE, CNN ANCHOR: Getting back to our top story now, around Oklahoma City, scattered airplanes and shattered buildings are remnants of a large tornado, the second twister in as many nights.
CNN's Jason Bellini is live in Bethany, Oklahoma -- Jason.
JASON BELLINI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Morning, Arthel.
Well, we'd like to show you what happened last night to one local business here. This was a lawn mower repair shop, and Arthur Miller over here, he -- Paul Miller, rather, he works at this shop. Must be...
PAUL MILLER, OKLAHOMA RESIDENT: Used to be a shop.
BELLINI: It's a big mess right now. What are you doing?
MILLER: Cleaning it up. Supposed to be here to work this morning to work on mowers, and now I'm going to be just cleaning up. It's unbelievable.
BELLINI: Are you going to have a job on Monday?
MILLER: Yes, we'll be here. I have known Gene for 25 years. He's been here 30 years. We either rebuild or move it somewhere else.
BELLINI: Gene's the owner of this shop.
MILLER: Gene's Mower Service.
BELLINI: How's he doing emotionally with all this?
MILLER: They were here last night till about 2:00 and went home. So they're supposed to be back here 15 or 20 minutes.
BELLINI: Could you show us real quick some of the damage, one of the -- a few of the things that got wrecked that are going to be expensive to replace?
MILLER: Well, most -- they moved most all the mowers in the back behind that wall there, on through that door. And the new mowers that were in here, and Parks Department's got the roof off of it. That's all Parks Department there, trying to get tarps there to tarp that over.
BELLINI: So really nothing salvageable at this point? MILLER: Some parts back there, if they don't get wet. It is supposed to rain here in a little bit. And what's there will be ruined if it rains.
BELLINI: Well, Arthel, some very impressive destruction here.
And this has happened to some homes, a number of businesses. As we told you earlier, this tornado, it just sort of hopscotched around in parts of Oklahoma City last night. It did not leave this wide swath. So some people just got very unlucky, Arthel.
NEVILLE: Ah, Jason, thank you so much.
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Aired May 10, 2003 - 08:59 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
ARTHEL NEVILLE, CNN ANCHOR: Getting back to our top story now, around Oklahoma City, scattered airplanes and shattered buildings are remnants of a large tornado, the second twister in as many nights.
CNN's Jason Bellini is live in Bethany, Oklahoma -- Jason.
JASON BELLINI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Morning, Arthel.
Well, we'd like to show you what happened last night to one local business here. This was a lawn mower repair shop, and Arthur Miller over here, he -- Paul Miller, rather, he works at this shop. Must be...
PAUL MILLER, OKLAHOMA RESIDENT: Used to be a shop.
BELLINI: It's a big mess right now. What are you doing?
MILLER: Cleaning it up. Supposed to be here to work this morning to work on mowers, and now I'm going to be just cleaning up. It's unbelievable.
BELLINI: Are you going to have a job on Monday?
MILLER: Yes, we'll be here. I have known Gene for 25 years. He's been here 30 years. We either rebuild or move it somewhere else.
BELLINI: Gene's the owner of this shop.
MILLER: Gene's Mower Service.
BELLINI: How's he doing emotionally with all this?
MILLER: They were here last night till about 2:00 and went home. So they're supposed to be back here 15 or 20 minutes.
BELLINI: Could you show us real quick some of the damage, one of the -- a few of the things that got wrecked that are going to be expensive to replace?
MILLER: Well, most -- they moved most all the mowers in the back behind that wall there, on through that door. And the new mowers that were in here, and Parks Department's got the roof off of it. That's all Parks Department there, trying to get tarps there to tarp that over.
BELLINI: So really nothing salvageable at this point? MILLER: Some parts back there, if they don't get wet. It is supposed to rain here in a little bit. And what's there will be ruined if it rains.
BELLINI: Well, Arthel, some very impressive destruction here.
And this has happened to some homes, a number of businesses. As we told you earlier, this tornado, it just sort of hopscotched around in parts of Oklahoma City last night. It did not leave this wide swath. So some people just got very unlucky, Arthel.
NEVILLE: Ah, Jason, thank you so much.
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