It was about 11 p.m. Saturday when Debra Chalfin got the text on her phone from a local TV station alerting her about a tornado warning in her area.
The family, which lives in the Wood-Lake Mobile Home Park on Cummings Rd., in Millbury, did just what they were supposed to – they headed to their designated “safe place,” which happened to be just down the road at Lake High School.
Wasting no time, Debra rounded up her family – her husband Dean, daughters Danielle Chalfin and Jennifer Knoblock and stepson Eric Eischen, and got in the car. Here is her story.