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APPOINTMENT. N:IA TODAY MARKS THE ANNIVERSARY OF ONE OF THE DEADLIEST DAYSN I OUR STATE’S HISTORY. IT’S BEEN 11 YEARS SINCE THE APRIL 27, 2011 TORNADO. SHERI: 240 PEOPLE INHE T STATE DIED THAT DAY. �������� 13’S CHIP SCARBOROUGH REPORTS FROM HARD-HIT PRTAT CITY. >> THE MOMENT THIS STORM HIT, THIS HOUSE WAS SHAKING LIKE IT WAS PAPER. REPORTER: F POREOPLE LIKE MARGARET PERRY, THE APRIL 27, 2011 TORNADO SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY. >> IT DOES NOT SEEM LIKE IT’S BEEN 11 YEARS. BUT I CAN TELL YOU THIS, EVERY TIME A STORM COMES UP, THAT DAY FLASHES BACK. REPORTER: A TREE FELL ON PER’SY' HOME DURING THE STORM, BLOCKING ONE OF T EHENTRANCES TO THE HOUSE. BUT PERRY AND HER FAMILY ESCAPED UNHARM.ED PRATT CITY RESIDENT BESSIE REYNOLDS BREWSTER WASN’T SO LUY.CK SHE WAS KILLED IN THE STORM. BIRMINGHAM’S ONLY FATALITY THAT DAY. MARGARET PERRY SAYS SHE WASN’T SURE SHE’D SURVIVE THE TORNO.AD >> I TOLD THE LORD, IF YOU’RE GOING TO TAKE ME, TAKE ME NOW. PLEASE DON’T WANT TO LET ME BE FLYING AROUND IN THE AIR. THAT’S WHAT I SAID. REPORTER: PERRY SS AYTHE FAMILY DOG EVEN SENSED SOMETHING WAS WRONG WELL BEFORE THE STORM HIT AND DUG A HOLE IN THE BACKRDYA FOR PROTECTION. >> SOMEBODY ASKED, MS. PERRY, WHERE IS HAMMER? I SAID, I DON’T KNOW. SO, MY HUSBAND WHISTLED. AND HAMMER CAME OUT OF A HOLE BACK THERE HE HAD DUG BIG ENOUGH FOR A MAN TO GET IN. MUCH HAS CHANGED HERE IN THE PRATT CITY COMMUNITY SINCE TTHA DAY 11 YEARS AGO. INCLUDING THIS BRAND-NEW, BEAUTIFUL PARK NEXT TO THE PUICBL LIBRARY. RESIDENTS SAY EYTH’RE OPTIMISTIC MORE GROWTH WILL HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE. >> BUT WE HAD SOME WHO WERE RTHU AND LOST THEIR HOMES AND THEY JUST DIDN’T COME BACK. REPORTER: INSTEAD, OPTING F AOR FRESH START SOMEWHE ERELSE. IN PRATT CITY, CHIP SC