Posted on 05/16/2026 12:05:22 PM PDT by DFG
It’s unbaaaa-lievable.
After a powerful tornado barreled through Enid, Okla., on April 23, the Sloat family was trapped beneath the earth in their storm shelter under tons of debris when they were suddenly rescued — by their two pet goats.
“They saved us,” Adam Sloat, 53, told The Post. “No doubt about it.”
The terrifying ordeal began when the approaching storm triggered a rare tornado emergency, the National Weather Service’s highest tornado warning.
The bad news: a powerful EF-4 tornado — with winds reaching between 170-200 mph — was bearing down on the 50,000 residents of Enid at a few minutes past 8 p.m.
“We were relaxing, watching the NFL draft on TV when the signal went off,” recalled Sloat.
The roar swelled into a deafening howl, rattling the walls and exploding windows as the monster twister closed in.
“It sounded like a freight train,” said Sloat, a fitness trainer at nearby Vance Air Force Base. “I told my wife Mary, and my teenage daughter, ‘Grab everything you can and let’s get into the storm shelter.'”
As the Sloats raced into their underground hideaway, neighbors Eddie and Linda rushed to join them.
They barely slammed the cellar doors shut before the half-mile-wide tornado chewed through everything above them as it raced through Enid for 10 menacing miles.
“There was glass shattering, we could hear bricks falling,” Mary, 52, later told local news station KFOR.
She was heartbreakingly sure their 3-year-old pet goats, Percy and Penny, would never survive the violent twister.
They jumped when a loud crash sounded on the shelter’s steel doors.
“We looked up and saw the door was dented in. We didn’t know it at the time, but the chimney fell on top of the doors, thousands of bricks,” said Sloat.
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Aww. Good goatsies.
Here. Now it’s not clickbait.
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Against all odds, Percy and Penny had survived, and the four-legged heroes stomped, bleated and refused to budge from where the family and friends sat, buried alive.
“The rescuers had no idea where we were but Percy and Penny knew,” laughed Sloat. “They stood right over us and kept up a steady stream of noise until the emergency people came over and started removing the bricks.”
The Sloat family and their neighbors was eventually pulled to safety.
Iranian porn.
Thank you.
No curry for these heroes
Alfalfa
Grapes
Bananas
Goodies forever
Great story. Not the Greatest Of All Time (Goat) but still pretty good.
Must have been dinner time.
Groan, that was baaaad!
I never understood why those doors always open OUT, when they can be blocked, as by the bricks in this story.
Why don’t they ever open inwards?
Anybody?
Missed the draft-bummer.
I always thought it was to escape in case of a fire 🔥
If the door opened in, the chimney would have gone inside on top of them. Since the door opens out, it can resist a lot more weight.
If the door opened in, they would have to open the door, get past it and then close the door against the violent wind.
Since the door opens out, you just have to get it opened enough to get through, then let gravity close it (usually there are counter weights to pull it closed).
Also, you should register your storm shelter with the local emergency management office so that search and rescue know to check for you after the event.
nevermind 🥴
To make good of a bad situation and being thankful they and all their neighbors survived the tornado, the Sloat family hosted a outdoor cookout serving cabrito.
Got a buddy lives down there.
Tornado turned a half-mile short of his place.
He grew up there. Probably scared the “Stuff” out of wife and kid.
Nice story of the rescue at least
Where are you going to put all of the bricks?
Plus consider closure strength...
The goats look substantial.
The house?
Not so much.
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