JOPLIN — Rod Pace, manager of the Med Flight helicopter service at St. John's Regional Medical Center, had just finished payroll paperwork Sunday evening when he decided to stay an extra 15 to 20 minutes to let the menacing weather pass.
UPDATE: Survivors of Joplin disaster recall narrow escapes
Monday, May 23, 2011 | 4:46 p.m. CDT;
updated 10:22 a.m. CDT, Tuesday, May 24, 2011
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