May 21, 2013: A woman whose home was flattened by a deadly tornado in Oklahoma City was reunited with her dog as a CBS News crew recorded an interview with her.

The dog spent three days in the rubble under the house, but emerges uninjured from the debris.

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Oklahoma Tornado Survivor Is Reunited With Her Dog

by Rae Anne Watkins, The Source - Bend, Oregon
May 24, 2013

<h1>Oklahoma Tornado Survivor Is Reunited With Her Dog</h1> <p class="byline">by Rae Anne Watkins, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />May 24, 2013</p> <p>May 21, 2013: A woman whose home was flattened by a deadly tornado in Oklahoma City was reunited with her dog as a CBS News crew recorded an interview with her. </p> </p> <p>The dog spent three days in the rubble under the house, but emerges uninjured from the debris.</p> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"> <div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> http://www.youtube.com/embed/BUc1ZgXiQGs </div> </figure> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/oklahoma-tornado-survivor-is-reunited-with-her-dog-2236792/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=21327&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/oklahoma-tornado-survivor-is-reunited-with-her-dog-2236792/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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