GREENWOOD, Ind. — When Johnson County got hit by its second tornado in three months, many people thought, "what are the chances?!"
That's especially true for a man who came face-to-face with both storms and felt the double impact of disaster: a direct hit in Whiteland and a narrow miss in Greenwood.
The tornado captured on camera, tearing through the Flats at Stones Crossing apartment complex Sunday, was especially terrifying for Kevin Morphew.
"At first, I thought it was birds flying around. Then, just the swirl of debris. It just formed before my eyes — you know, that classic tornado look," Morphew said. "My heart was pounding."
He watched the twister roar right by his apartment.
The tornado hit the units still under construction while he hid in his building across the pond.
His cellphone was rolling — in time-lapse mode because his fingers were shaking so badly — and the quick-hit video shows the funnel form and Morphew taking off for shelter.
"I got up underneath the stairwell and I looked down the hall out the back door, and you can see the tornado, passing by," Morphew said. "I couldn't believe it, but it was real."
That storm spawned shock, fear and a dreadful case of déjà vu.
"I couldn't — I was in disbelief — I couldn't believe this. I was like...not again," Morphew said.
He was at ground-zero for both of Johnson County's recent tornadoes: the EF2 in Greenwood on Sunday and the EF3 in Whiteland in March.
Morphew's home took a direct hit in March and is still too dangerous to live in.
Where Morphew lives temporarily is how he became a two-time storm survivor.
"I'm seriously thinking about moving out of 'tornado alley,'" Morphew said, who wasn't the only person affected by both tornadoes.
There were three families from a neighborhood in Whiteland who got hit by the tornado in March and then got hit again in Greenwood on Sunday.
And three months since the Whiteland tornado, Morphew said he's still struggling with insurance and contractors to fix his home.
"I'm trying to understand why it's taking so long," Morphew said, all while the memory of impact lingers. "I was sitting just on the other side of the window, and that's when things went south on me."
Nobody was injured in either tornado in Johnson County.
"I don't want to push my luck anymore," Morphew said.