Iowa Man Catches Twister On Tape

As one of the tornadoes that ripped through several central Iowa towns tore across Woodward Saturday, Jeremiah Nance started rolling his video camera.

Geoff Greenwood of CBS affiliate KCCI-TV in Des Moines spoke with the Nance family as the area began picking up the pieces.

"We dodged a pretty big bullet. The whole family did," Nance told Greenwood.

"Oh, my God!" someone is heard screaming in the tape's background as the tornado approached.

"It looked like it was going to go away. Then you could see stuff flying in it, it picked up speed, and then it just took off like a shot," said Nance's father, Russell.

When things calmed down, Jeremiah and his brother, Doug, walked through town to make sure everyone was OK.

Then they heard a woman in one house crying for help. When they asked if anyone was inside with her, Jackie Seeman said no one was.

Seeman was home resting when she was awakened by a terrible roar.

"I just heard this big whoosh," she said, "and I felt my house shake, and I thought, 'Oh my God, oh my God.' Then everything just came crashing down."

That's when the Nance brothers came "out of nowhere," Seeman tells Greenwood. "I was so thankful to see someone because I didn't know what was going on."

The tornado steamrolled right over Woodward, a town of 1,200 people.

"You don't think that, that quick, that everything could just be gone. But it was just horrible. Just everything destroyed," Doug says.

Seeman lost her home but lived to tell about it.

"I'm just so happy to be alive. And I really think, I just know that God was with me," Seeman says.