A father and mother shielded their two babies from a tornado that demolished their trailer, and even the infant who was spun into a tree miraculously survived without serious injuries.
Sydney Moore and her fiancé were in their Clarksville, Tennessee, trailer home with their two young boys when a tornado struck them directly.
As soon as Moore, 22, heard the tornado approaching, she instinctively threw herself over her one-year-old son in the back bedroom to protect him. Immediately afterward, the walls collapsed on the young mother and her child.
“Literally, when I jumped on him, the walls collapsed. I was being really crushed, like, I couldn’t breathe,” Moore told WSMV 4.
Moore’s four-month-old was lying in a bassinet near his father in the front room. When the tornado touched down on the trailer, the unexpected happened.
“The roof came down first, the tip of the tornado came down and picked up the bassinet with my baby Lord in it, and he was the first thing to go up.”
Moore’s fiancé held on to his infant son’s bassinet and the two were sucked up into the tornado together.
“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.
Moore’s fiancé was separated from the infant during the tornado. The father’s arm and shoulder were broken while attempting to protect his son. When the tornado had blown over, Moore dug herself and her one-year-old out of the debris of the trailer. Everything was destroyed, and the tornado had been so forceful that the children’s metal playpen was wrapped around the top of a tree.
Moore and her fiancé searched frantically for their newborn. Moore tearfully recounted her emotions during that 10-minute long search in a downpour of rain. “I thought he was dead. I was pretty sure he was dead and we wouldn’t be able to find him.”
The couple found their infant lying safely in the branches of a tree, with a gash on his face but no serious injury. “It looked like a little tree cradle. He was just laying there… He’s here and that’s by the grace of God,” Moore said.
On the GoFundMe page she organized for the couple, Moore’s sister, Caitlyn Moore, describes how the infant’s life seemed to be saved miraculously. “We are told that he looked like he was placed on the tree gently. Like an angel guided him safely to that spot.”
Moore described how the tornado changed her perspective on life and affirmed her and her fiancé’s love for their children.
“Everything could be taken like that… I will die for my children. That’s not even a question. And my boyfriend would do the same thing.”
Moore claims she isn’t the one saving her little boys, rather, they are the ones who have drawn her out of personal difficulties.
“Those kids are what saved me. They saved me from everything, and I don’t know what I would have done without them.
