Many families suffered terrible losses earlier this month when a tornado with 150 mile per hour winds whipped through the Clarksville, Tennessee area. One young mother, Sydney Moore, is thanking God that her family was spared. Moore’s home was completely destroyed, and her family was caught completely unaware: they no idea a tornado was headed their way. By the time she heard the tornado sirens, she says, “we were already in the air,” as the tornado sent she, her boyfriend and their two sons flying.
Moore and her boyfriend were in their mobile home with their one-year-old son Princeton and their 4-month-old son Lord when the tornado struck. Moore was able to grab Princeton as her home was being ripped apart by the winds, but her boyfriend could not reach baby Lord, who was in his bassinet, and the tornado sucked father and son right into the air and threw them outside into trees and debris.
Moore and Princeton, meanwhile, were trapped under a collapsed wall. “Princeton was on my chest, and whatever it was that was [on top of us was] crushing me,” she told KHOU TV. Thankfully, she was eventually able to free them, and set out looking for her boyfriend and infant.
“We were screaming for each other,” she said. When she found her boyfriend laying outside with a broken collarbone, she says, “I just remember asking, ‘Where’s my baby!’ And my child’s father said he didn’t know.”
Panic-stricken, the couple began frantically searching for baby Lord. Miraculously, his father soon found the infant in a fallen tree amidst the wreckage that was once their home. Except for a gash to his ear and a concussion, he was unharmed. “He found him laying in a tree, like somebody placed him in this tree,” Moore explained.
When asked how she thought all four of them survived their home being demolished and them being hurtled into the air by 150 mile per hour winds, Moore was quick to answer. “It had to have been God,” she said confidently.
In a GoFundMe set up for the family, Sydney’s sister Caitlin Moore explained the family’s losses and their miracle. “She [Sydney] lost all of her and the children’s belongings…The tornado took all of the formula, diapers, wipes, clothing, etc. Luckily, everyone came out with minor cuts and bruises. … Lord had to have his ear glued from a gash on his ear and had a minor concussion. We are told that he looked like he was placed on the tree gently,” she elaborated, “Like an angel guided him safely to that spot.”
So far the GoFundMe has raised over $100,000 for miracle baby Lord and family, who are residing in a hotel until they can find new housing and get a new car, as their car was also completely totaled by the storm.
All the best to this family and their miracle baby as they recover from these losses.
