"It sounded like a train"

Here in the last two weeks, the city of Huntsville has experienced two horrible tragedies....two shootings at two separate schools. First, a 14 year old was shot and killed by a classmate at their middle school. Then today, a female faculty member at the local university shot and killed 3 faculty members and injured 3 more because she was denied tenure. And as unbearable as these two situations are, I pause to reflect on the interviews that I see on TV after each occurrence. And after anything that happens in this area, whether it be shootings, tornadoes, snow.....
Huntsville is a city of brilliant people....NASA engineers, military contractors, etc....the news channels could close their eyes, throw a dart and snag an intelligent person to interview. But no, they hand pick Willie, who weighs all of 105 pounds soaking wet. He's sporting some Wranglers, a Budweiser t-shirt, a belt buckle the size of a small child, a trucker's hat with some redneck saying on it like "You want some of this?", and cowboy boots that clearly have been scuffed from years of bar fights and cow tipping. He's got a dip in his mouth, and he spits the juice through the hole that sits where his front tooth used to be. (But he lost that tooth somewhere at Porky's when that out-of-towner hit on his woman) The reporter asks him if he saw the tornado and what his experience was like. Well, he was "sitting in his Laz-y-boy watching some rasslin', you know that John Cena is a tough fella, and all the sudden I could hear the underpinning rattling real loud. So I grabbed my PBR and ran out on the front porch, and I saw it coming over 'em hills over there. Ppppttttssss (that's him spitting some dip juice out) And then I heard the sound, you know they always say it sounds like a train. Well, it does. You know, I ain't never seen nuttin' like that before."
I wish I could say I ain't never seen nuttin' like Willie before, but unfortunately, any time the news is looking for an interview, I am sure to see one!