Steven Burch survived an F5 tornado at work by sheltering in a bathroom, then organized his team to rebuild a colleague's grandmother's house. It became the first rebuilt home in Moore, Oklahoma, and they made it nicer than what she had before.
F5
Moore, Oklahoma
So if you haven't figured by now, I am crazy stupid, okay? John Wayne said, life is hard, and it's really hard if you're stupid. I experienced my first real tornado, by the way, when I'm recruiting and or meeting with an agent, my team knew you don't interrupt me, right? And it was weird because I saw two of my leaders keep, like, walking past the conference room. Kind of like Payson, right? And as soon as the appointments are, I went out and said, jim, There's a category F5 tornado coming. We've evacuated the office, but we just want to. I said, by the way, in the future, you can interrupt me for that. And we literally went into the bathroom because it was the safest place, but. And I told them, and please, dear God, both of you, never stay again. And so the first thing we did was the three of us, we took the roster and just started calling. Are you okay? Are you okay? Is everybody in your family okay? And we had one of our administrative people, their grandmama lost their house in that tornado. Life's expensive. She owned her house free and clear. And guess what she didn't have. And I asked her, I said, ma', am, brought her in the office, if you could, would you rebuild? Because not everybody. It's a tornado, Allen. She said, yes. I said, ma', am, I don't know how we're going to do it, but we're going to rebuild your house. And again, the people, our people, showed up, the database showed up. And she was the first rebuild, first house to get rebuilt in Moore, Oklahoma. We would deliver to a nicer house than she had. And it's amazing when you can do that.
