Sunnyvale Man Survives Second Close Call
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SUNNYVALE (CBS11) - Terrorism and a tornado in the same year.
A Sunnyvale man is maybe the only person to ever have a frightening encounter with both.
Bruce Joiner's Sunnyvale home sustained damage both to the windows and roof outside and to the walls and floors inside from last month's tornado.
"It's really surreal."
Surreal because Joiner has had more than his share of close calls recently.
"You can't get shot any better than I got shot and you can't get any closer to a tornado than I've gotten here," says Joiner who was shot and wounded last May when two men claiming to be with ISIS attempted to carry out a terrorist attack at the Culwell Center.
The Garland ISD officer returned to work weeks later and thought he was done dodging bullets until another one in the form of a tornado came through the day after Christmas.
"I think it's good fortune I'm a half-full kind a guy. I don't think it's luck I think it's the Lord looking out but it's not because I'm a better guy than anybody else or anybody that lost their life it's just because I think it's because he has something he wants me to do," he says.
Joiner only has to look next door to see that things could be a lot worse.
But it's safe to say no one anywhere survived both a tornado and a terrorist attack in 2015.
"And I hope I don't have to say it again next year," says Joiner who estimates his damage at about $30,000 but he's thankful that it can be repaired just like his leg wound.
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