Aria Vargyas was in second grade when the monster tornado obliterated her school and destroyed her family's home in Moore, Oklahoma.through Moore, Oklahoma. Twenty-five people were killed and over 1,000 homes were leveled during 40 minutes of terror on May 20, 2013.Her older brother was in fifth grade at Briarwood Elementary and he also survived. “Our tornado precaution was to get in the bathtub and put a mattress over our heads. So that's what they did," Aria remembers.
“That's when it started to click that I'm not going to be seeing them anymore unless it's pictures, videos, dreams," she said.As the people of Moore and the Vargyas family rebuilt their lives, so did Aria. Now a decade later, Aria, 19, is chasing the very type of storm that killed her siblings. She is 19 and a rising sophomore at Texas A&M which boasts one of the best
“We see the storms actually forming and I'm like, 'OK, this is where it gets good,'" Aria said."So, I'm looking at radar, I'm looking at the maps, trying to find roads. I'm just like in awe of seeing the clouds because you can visibly see the storm rotating and you saw how fast-paced it was moving.”“Like they think I am absolutely insane," she laughed."But they're both supportive.
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