Friday’s storms bring up dark memories for Memorial Day tornado victims

MIAMI VALLEY — More than two years after the Memorial Day tornadoes, storms are still difficult for the Walker family.

“It’s hard to even articulate it. We’re completely different,” Tim Walker said.

News Center 7 has been following his family’s story ever since he went on the roof of his home to rescue his daughter’s American Girl Doll a few days after an EF4 tornado knocked the home off its foundation.

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Two years later, a company demolished the home and it is now an empty lot.

“You think that it’s going to be the kind of a closure thing, you think that it’s going to bring an end to everything. And it really doesn’t,” Walker said.

While the house might be gone, the memories of that night are not. They show up for Walker, his wife, and their children when severe weather strikes, like on Friday night.

“The minute they see an alert come across on our WHIO weather app, the minute they see that the sky cloud up or hear thunder, there’s a lot of fear here, still to this day,” Walker said.

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