{"id":7491,"date":"2025-05-27T23:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T23:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=7491"},"modified":"2025-05-27T23:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T23:36:07","slug":"college-student-ejected-from-car-during-tornado-while-on-call-with-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=7491","title":{"rendered":"College Student Ejected From Car During Tornado While On Call With Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University Student Survives Being Thrown from Car During EF-3 Tornado<\/p>\n<p>Mya Grimes, a 20-year-old Jackson State University student, narrowly survived an EF-3 tornado that struck St. Louis on May 16, 2025. While driving home on Pershing Avenue, Mya was speaking to her mother when her car was caught in the storm\u2019s path.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe car started spinning in circles. I held on for dear life, praying and screaming \u2018Jesus,\u2019\u201d she recalled. The windshield shattered, and she was flung 40 yards down the road near Union and Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Before the storm hit, her father had warned her to get home quickly. As the weather worsened, she called her mother, who described the horrifying call: \u201cShe said, \u2018It\u2019s taking me,\u2019 and then the phone disconnected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite her injuries, Mya crawled to a light pole and flagged down an ambulance. She was released from the hospital with minor burns and cuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University Student Survives Being Thrown from Car During EF-3 Tornado Mya Grimes, a 20-year-old Jackson State University student, narrowly survived an EF-3 tornado that struck St. Louis&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7492,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7491\/revisions\/7492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}