Shakey’s pizza went down

It was a Saturday June 8, 1974.
I had just gone on the air at radio station KXXO in Tulsa. My shift started just before six PM. The news services teletypes were clicking and dinging . Weather was the big news at the moment. So my shift started out just reading weather bulletins. The full news staff was on site and bumping into each other.
Instead of the usual music and commercials I read non-stop weather bulletins until the lights literally went out.
At approximately 6:20 all power went off at our transmitter. Our big wall clock stopped at 6:20. Only twenty minutes into my on-air shift. Dead. We were off the air.
Tornados were spotted coming towards the Brookside area just west of where our radio station was and took out many power lines, trees were uprooted, roofs taken off, and my favorite pizza place, Shakey’s, was completely flattened. A pancake rubble. Sirens had sounded just moments after I got on the air. Heavy rains were coming down. Some low-lying areas were already flooding. I was obligated to stay at the station to finish my shift. However I had no way to get back home due to the rains and flooding anyway.
Our sister station, KMOD, was still on the air so we were able via telephone line to send our signal with news and updates and kept our listeners apprised of what was going on with the weather. Yes, phone lines were still alive.
Many radio stations as well as ours also were blown off the air.
We were a CBS affiliate and we fed them updates in New York as well. Then as the weather began to subside, All I could do is just sit in the hot seat and hope the transmitter comes back to life. But it wasn’t until Monday morning when our transmitter came back to life. But all through that time from Saturday evening and until Monday morning, I was stuck at the radio station, unshaven smelly sleeping on the bosses sofa all with no way to get back home.
Backing up, the interesting thing was when I came to work the previous Saturday evening, all was dry . No rain yet but a few wall clouds were off in the distant western sky. Yes, weather does quickly change in Oklahoma.
Looking outside after the weather alert skies were a greenish gray. We were covered in a tornadic wall cloud. A bad place to be but we luckily made it through with modest damage. Where’s my all-steel safe room?