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A four-month-old boy who was sucked out of his destroyed home deadly tornado was found alive in a nearby tree.
The deadly tornado, which swept across Tennessee on Saturday December 9, hit the home of mum Sydney Moore in Clarksville where she was cowering with her other son, Princeton, 1, and the children's dad.
As the twister ripped through the neighbourhood tearing the roof of the Moore family's mobile home and lifting the baby's bassinet into the air. His dad tried to grab the cradle but was spun up into the twister as well.
Ms 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."
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One-year-old Princeton with his baby brother Lord (gofundme)She jumped on to her one-year-old as the walls collapsed. The two of them were crushed under the trailer but she managed to get them out. They desperately looked for the missing baby, called Lord, before in a miracle they 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,” the relieved mum said. “But he’s here, and that’s by the grace of God.”
All the family members survived with cuts and bruises, but their home and belongings were a total loss. Ms Moore’s sister has started a to help them recover.
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Sydney's sister, Caitlyn Moore, wrote: "We were told that he looked like he was placed on the tree gently. Like an angel guided him safely to that spot."
She also explained that the baby had to have his ear glued from a cut. The dad suffered a broken arm, and the others in the mobile home came out with minor cuts and bruises.
One of the family cats is still missing.
Three people were killed in Clarksville and three in Nashville by the string of powerful tornado-producing storms on Saturday. There were terrifying scenes in which one mobile home landed on top of another, roofs were ripped from houses and an entire church collapsed during a string of powerful storms that killed six people.
The two infant brothers together (eyJpdiI6Ik9lN2RWZVJYREVyaVpaYjZBbjBucFE9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiR3ZIdEVOV2RFVmZEUEtMTjBJdHZYcWRma2Q2SnJ2dC84WXJXRzBUcER2SHNQbU91U243M1R1U1J4NkQ2RkVGWiIsIm1hYyI6IjBiZWVkM2NiOWI1ZTk1ODk0ZmQ4Zjg3MjBmYjY4MmVhMjMw)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. He said two other children in the family survived with minor injuries.
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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 said.