On Super Tuesday in Lafayette, Tennessee, James Kruger was watching the election results. Suddenly a warning appeared on his tv screen: A tornado was headed toward Lafayette, Tennessee. As soon as he read those words, the lights went out.

[You can Google an image of James Kruger, who appears disheveled, confused, and with a huge shiner.]

He put on sweat pants, grabbed a flashlight, “and then I heard this noise," Kruger said. He headed for a door, "and all of a sudden I heard the glass breaking and it was sucking," he said. "When I tried to shut the door, [it] seemed like the door was lifting up. So I just dove and I lay flat on the floor." Lying there, time stood still as everything in the house flew over him, scraping and banging his back, Kruger said. Then the chaos stopped. "I was lay…