As you all may have been watching on the news or have been reading in the newspapers, Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee were devastated when dozens of tornadoes ripped across and, killing at least 55 people and injuring hundreds more in the nation's deadliest set of twisters in more than two decades.
There has been so much damage in the communities it will take years to rebuild, and give a sense of hope to the lives that have been shattered.
My deepest sympathy and condolences go out to the families that may have lost any loved ones during this event. With growing up in the Midwest, tornado's are very common, this story hits very close to home. I have relatives that live in Nashville and Kentucky. I thank GOD that they are doing ok, but the lives of the families, and communities will never be the same. Here are some other miracle's that I read about.
I was reading about the students that took cover in dormitory bathrooms as the storms closed in on Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. More than 20 students at the Southern Baptist school were trapped behind wreckage and jammed doors after the dormitories came down around them. By the grace of GOD they all survived with minimal injury.
A daughter watched as friends picked through the heavily damaged home where her 78-year-old mother survived in a bathroom.
I also read about the most remarkable survival story in the Washington post here is part of the Article:Castalian Springs, Tenn., an emergency worker from nearby Wilson County, had first thought the boy was made of plastic. Then, he said, he saw the baby move.The 11-month-old, dressed in a T-shirt and diaper, was lying in a field of tall grass nearly 300 feet from the duplex where he once lived. He was face down in the mud, covered in bits of grass like many of those who had been cast about by the dozens of tornadoes that had careened across the South.
But unlike at least 54 people the baby, named Kyson, had survived. He was tossed by winds that had not only flattened the brick post office next door but that had killed his 23-year-old mother, throwing her several yards in the opposite direction, into some fallen trees.
Medics on the scene said Kyson was " cold and scared, and he had this blank look in his eyes". Rescuers described their relief when the baby, mute as he was picked up by rescuers and cradled in a fireman's jacket, finally began to cry.
"It's a miracle they ain't both gone," Doug Stowell, 45, Kyson's grandfather, a carpenter and tile worker who drove up to the scene last night and found his daughter, Carrie, dead and his grandson alive, told the Post last night.
"He was found over 300 feet from his home, and that was demolished - I mean wiped clean."
It was a welcome miracle among the devastation.
. Tornadoes and thunderstorms ravaged parts of the southern U.S. Hardest hit were Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi and Alabama, with unconfirmed sightings of 69 tornadoes on Tuesday and yesterday.
The storm system stretched as far north as Ohio. Trucks were crumpled and houses, factories and shops were flattened.
Talk about a Miracle.
My only request for whoever reads this is to Pray for the ones that are lost, injured, the deceased and the families who may have lost anyone during this natural disaster. Much LuvChase
