Miracle as four-month-old sucked into raging tornado before being found in tree
A four-month-old boy miraculously survived after he was sucked into a tornado - which left him in a fallen tree.
Mum Sydney Moore revealed that when the tornado hit their home in Clarksville, Tennessee, on Saturday, it ripped off the roof and lifted the bassinet with her son inside. Her boyfriend, the child’s dad, tried to grab the bassinet but was spun up into the twister as well, Moore said.
“He was just holding on to the bassinet the whole time, and they went into circles, he said, and then they got thrown,” Moore said. At about the same time in another room, as the wind howled, Moore decided to jump on top of their other son, who is 1. She grabbed the child as the walls collapsed, she said. Moore and the 1-year-old were crushed under the trailer, but she said she managed to push them out.
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The 4-month-old baby was asleep when the twister attacked (WSMV)They searched for the younger son for 10 minutes and ultimately found him lying in a fallen tree in the pouring rain. “I was pretty sure he was dead and we weren’t going to find him,” Moore said. “But he’s here, and that’s by the grace of God.”
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All the family members survived with cuts and bruises, but their homes and belongings were a total loss. Moore’s sister has started a GoFundMe page to help them recover. Three people were killed in Clarksville and three in Nashville by the string of powerful tornado-producing storms on Saturday.
The roof was ripped off the family's home (WSMV)Emergency workers and community members cleaned up Sunday from the severe weekend storms and tornadoes that also sent dozens more to the hospital while damaging buildings, turning over vehicles, and knocking out power to tens of thousands. Marco Tulio Gabriel Pérez came to Nashville from Atlanta after hearing that his sister and 2-year-old nephew were killed in the tornado.
Sydney Moore said the child had a lucky escape (WSMV)He said two other children in the family survived with minor injuries. Family members were crying as they looked through the rubble of the trailers on Sunday morning. “Regrettably, a tragedy happened here. Since it’s a tornado, it came through like you can see here.
"She lived in this trailer. The other trailer overturned on top of my deceased sister. She remained underneath, the other trailer went on top,” Pérez told The Associated Press in Spanish.
He was found in a fallen tree (WSMV)The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department identified the victims killed north of downtown as Joseph Dalton, 37; Floridema Gabriel Pérez, 31; and her son, Anthony Elmer Mendez, 2. Dalton was inside his mobile home when the storm-tossed it on top of Pérez’s residence. Two other children were taken to a hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening, the department said in a statement.
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