View full sizeRachael TaborHARVEST, Alabama -- When Jeff Tabor wanted to leave their small mobile home on Yarbrough Road on April 27, his wife, Rachael Tabor, didn't want to go.
"She said, 'Where are we go to go? We have nowhere to go,'" Steven Mullins said. "She didn't think (the weather) was going to be that serious."
Mullins had a long-term relationship with Rachel Tabor and remained good friends with her and her husband. Mullins and his wife, Kim, lived about five miles from the Tabors so his and Rachael's daughter, Tiffany, could go back and forth between her parents' homes, Mullins said. He handled the funeral arrangements for Rachael, who was 37. Jeff Tabor is in Huntsville Hospital with multiple injuries.
"They waited too late to get out," said Mullins.
When the Tabors opened the back door of their trailer and saw the tornado almost on them, they ran for the kitchen and climbed under the table. They held hands and prayed as the storm bore down on them, Mullins said.
According to Mullins, Tabor saw his wife get sucked out of the trailer as the tornado demolished it. Jeff Tabor was thrown as well. He had put his cell phone in his pocket before the storm hit and was able to call 911 to help rescue personnel find him.
"I got there right after it hit," Mullins said, and he helped find Rachael.
- Read Tabor's obituary here