On the afternoon of July 31, 1987, during his four-hour midday radio show, Terry Evans walked from the K-97 control room into the station’s newsroom. Telephones were ringing with terrified Edmontonians in the start of a horrific tornado.
“I specifically remember giving instructions to a child on the phone to climb into the bathtub and cover himself with blankets to be safe,” Evans recalls, his voice carrying the weight of that moment.
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“His parents were at work and he was home from school — alone — and the noise from the storm on his end of the phone was so loud that I could barely hear him. I stayed on the phone with him until the line went dead, and I don’t remember anything after that because I was terrified for that kid.”
The call came from the Evergreen Trailer Park, where 15 people were killed in that devastating tornado.
“I never found out what happened to him.”
