It has been six weeks since an EF2 tornado swept through Portage, Michigan. Farhan Ali and his family lost their home to the tornado on May 7 and are raising money to rebuild it.
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00:00there was a lot of destruction at this point. It looked like a bomb had hit the
00:06entire neighborhood. This is what's left of Farhan Ali's home after an E. F. Two
00:11tornado struck it on May 7th. The house was completely destroyed. Our roof was
00:17scattered probably through five or six yards. It's right there. Ali was at work
00:25when he heard a tornado was approaching Portage michigan. He called his mother
00:29who was home with his two Children and asked them to head to the basement. And
00:33so when I called her the second time I asked her, you know, I told her that we
00:38lost power and I asked her what, what was her status? And she said that she
00:43they also lost power and I can now hear some panic in her voice after learning
00:49water was starting to enter the basement from all of the rain. Ali says
00:53he got in his car and started driving home to save them. By the time he got
00:58to his neighborhood, there was debris everywhere blocking roadways. So this
01:02officer um and and some other people actually got out of their cars and they
01:08lifted the power pole up uh enough for me to be able to get my vehicle through
01:16underneath it. When he finally got home, his family was safe thanks to a
01:20neighbor who got them out of the basement after the storm passed. Um I
01:25found my family, my kids and my mother at the top of the driveway and they
01:31um they were barefoot, they didn't have any shoes on, they were soaking wet,
01:35they were crying and um at that point um you know, I I kind of um just
01:42embraced them. Ali has started the process of picking up the pieces of
01:46their lives. I ended up loading up nine dumpsters and three U hauls because
01:54his home was uninsured at the time of the tornado. He started a go fund me to
01:58help raise funds to rebuild it while his family may be temporarily displaced.
02:03He's relying on his faith to get through a difficult time. You know,
02:06we're in a bad position. Um but um I think that uh we have our trust in god
02:15and we believe that um god will see us through this for Accuweather. I'm Emmy
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