But as his parents rushedly helped him and his brother into the car, their faiths of escape were swallowed by the wind. There’s also the obvious calming nature of being in a house of God, and there are few better times for that as a remedy than in a time of danger.
In an event of serious inclement weather such as this, the Nix family’s plan was to abandon the vulnerable trailer and flee to their nearby church, which had a concrete foundation and sturdier walls and ceilings.
I didn’t make it there, because my dad actually just swooped me up as he was meeting me in the hallway, and then we immediately went out to the car.” “It absolutely scared me, so the first thing I do as a kid is immediately run to my parents’ room. “I was asleep and the next thing I know, I wake up to a tree hitting the side of our house where my room was located,” he says. For as long ago as this fateful evening was, he still remembers it vividly. In 2000, long before his arrival as a meteorologist at KARK-Channel 4 and KLRT-Channel 16, a thunderstorm hit his family’s trailer in Kingsland. Today, Nix is a self-described “weather nerd,” but as a child, his barometric pressure was altered by fear. But it wasn’t a fairy tale that led this small-town Arkansas boy down the meteorological pathway - at least not at first.
Just as the winds and the rivers shape our ever-changing landscape, Hayden Nix’s life has been molded by the weather.
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