{"id":7397,"date":"2011-12-27T04:00:35","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T09:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smarttan.com\/news\/index.php\/top-stories-of-2011sunbed-saves-salon-owner-in-tornado\/"},"modified":"2011-12-26T17:23:24","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T22:23:24","slug":"top-stories-of-2011sunbed-saves-salon-owner-in-tornado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/top-stories-of-2011sunbed-saves-salon-owner-in-tornado\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Stories of 2011:<\/br>Sunbed Saves Salon Owner in Tornado"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 27<\/strong>, 2011:<\/strong> A Georgia salon owner \u2014 who had only been open for business for three weeks \u2014 found safety by hiding with her two daughters inside a closed sunbed as a killer tornado ripped apart the rest of her salon, and much of her town.<\/p>\n

Lisa Rice, owner of S&L Tans in Trenton, Georgia, looked out her salon window to see the tornado ripping apart main street Wednesday afternoon \u2014 one of many tornadoes that have torn apart southern cities in storms this week, killing hundreds. \u201cWe had already made plans that if something happened, we were gonna\u2019 get in the tanning bed,” Rice told NBC News.<\/p>\n

\"2011-04-28That\u2019s what they did, as the twister tore apart the salon around them. “We just laid there for a few minutes. I kept telling them just to be quiet, it’s not over. And the wind kept blowing and then finally it calmed down, and we got out and climbed out of the building,” Rice told NBC.<\/p>\n

To see the NBC report click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

April 27, 2011: A Georgia salon owner \u2014 who had only been open for business for three weeks \u2014 found safety by hiding with her two daughters inside a closed sunbed as a killer tornado ripped apart the rest of her salon, and much of her town. 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