Emily Kwong
speaker
4,795 appearances
100 recordings
11 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 16 Sep
Emily Kwong’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Hey, short wavers.
Emily Kwong here with reporter Pauline Bartolone.
Hi, Pauline.
Hey, Emily.
Good to be here.
So today's episode starts with a story that begins about 15 years ago.
Right.
So we're going to a city in southwestern Missouri, a small city called Joplin, where a woman named Nanda Nunnally lived with her husband and daughter.
And on one evening, back in May 2011, the city's tornado sirens went off.
Nanda went to the front door to see what was going on.
So Nanda and her husband run to a bedroom closet and they crouch down with their tiny dog.
And within seconds, the tornado hits.
And Nanda wasn't sure she was going to make it.
She held onto her husband and parts of the roof ripped off.
She saw the sky above them and she started praying.
But then to her surprise, she had a thought about an acquaintance from childhood, someone she barely knew.
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