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Severe weather in Georgia imitated the famous scene from “The Wizard of Oz” when a tornado dropped a house in the middle of the road.
This story and more reports of the tragic events and miraculous survival that occurred from severe weather over the past three days across the nation.
In Upton County, Georgia, a tornado picked up an entire house and dropped it in the middle of Trinity Road. The house was lifted off its foundation and carried some 50-100 feet, landing mostly intact.
The house blocked traffic for hours before crews were able to move it out of the way. Upton County’s Sheriff’s office says that no one was inside the home when the tornado lifted it into the air.
The owners of the home said the house was built in 1950 and they rent it out. They were sleeping when they heard the tornado. Despite having the best smartphones, they couldn’t get through to the couple that rents the house from them to see if they were all right.
One of the owners said she eventually learned that the couple wasn’t home when the tornado struck. The owner added that the tornado took part of the roof and chimney off of her own home.
A Chattanooga, Tennessee family is asking for prayers after a 4-year-old boy and his father were critically injured by a tornado that struck on Easter Sunday. The EF-3 tornado tore through the family’s home, sending debris through the bedrooms.
An adjoining wall between the bedrooms collapsed, which knocked out both the boy and his father and left them bleeding from their heads.
The four-year-old boy suffered severe brain damage and the mother is praying for a miracle after neurosurgeons told her there’s “nothing they can do.”
A family member said the tornado sirens didn’t go off until after it struck.
At least two other Tennesseans were killed and several people hospitalized as a result of the tornadoes that ripped through the Tennessee Valley region.
A concrete safe room was the only thing left standing after a tornado obliterated the rest of a family’s home in Moss, Mississippi on Monday, April 13. The complete and utter destruction only took seconds, the family says.
A couple and their two children, ages 2 and 6 months, huddled inside a small concrete safe room, which doubles as a closet.
As a result, all four survived the storm without as much as a scratch. The home, however, was completely ripped away from its foundation and reduced to a pile of rubble and splinters.
