Talk about an absolute miracle.
It was a wild weekend here in Middle Tennessee, after tornadoes left 6 dead, numerous injured and hundreds without a home when they ripped through Nashville and the surrounding areas this weekend.
But one family in Clarksville, just north of Nashville, is counting their blessings after their four month old baby miraculously survived being sucked up by the tornado.
Sydney Moore and her family lost their home when the storm hit their neighborhood. And she says as she heard the tornado approached, she jumped on top of her 1-year old son to protect him:
“Something in me just told me to run and jump on top of my son. Literally the moment I jumped on him, the walls collapsed.”
But her 4-month old son, Lord, was in his bassinet in the living room. And when the tornado took the roof off of their mobile home, the baby and his bed went with it:
“The roof came off first, the tip of the tornado came down and picked up the bassinet with my baby, Lord, in it. He was the first thing to go up.”
Moore says that her boyfriend tried to catch their son, but that he too ended up getting blown away:
“He was just holding on to the bassinet the whole time, and they went into circles, he said, and then they got thrown.”
After the tornado had passed, Moore was able to push her way out of the demolished home and went searching for her baby. And they eventually found him: Alive, lying on a fallen tree, in the middle of the pouring rain.
“It looked like a little tree cradle. He was just laying there.”
According to a GoFundMe that’s been started for the family, the baby suffered some minor injuries and had to have his ear glued from a cut, but other than that, he “looked like he was placed on the tree gently” like “an angel had guided him safely to that spot.”
The family is currently living in a hotel for the next month, but are now forced to rebuild after losing everything they own.
But luckily, they’re all safe – and it’s nothing short of a miracle.
