Tennessee: Baby Swept Out of His Home in Deadly Tornado Found Unharmed in a Tree, “Pretty Much a Miracle”

by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – In what has been described as a miracle, a baby in Clarksville, Tennessee, was found unharmed in a tree after a deadly tornado ripped through his home, tearing off the roof and sweeping him up out of his crib, ABC News reports. Although his home was completely destroyed, four-month-old Lord Moore suffered only a cut to his face in the tornado, which killed three people and injured dozens of others as it stormed through Clarksville on Dec. 9.

Baby Lord had been put down for a nap with his one-year-old brother Princeton when the tornado struck, ABC News reports. Lord’s mother, Sydney Moore, was with his father, Aramis Youngblood, in the living room when she heard a violent sound like an airplane engine above them. “I remember me and Princeton got thrown onto the ground and then we got picked up and thrown down again, but he never left my arms,” Moore told Good Morning America.”

Meanwhile, as Youngblood raced to protect Lord, both he and his baby son were swept away, ABC News said. “In the front bedroom, Aramis was in there with Lord, and the roof came off and swept them up,” Moore recounted. “The bassinet was the first thing to go.”

Youngblood ran out to search for Lord and found him safe in a tree 25 feet away from the house. “It was just like he was placed in a tree, like a little tree cradle for a baby,” Moore said. “It was like a cubby hole in a tree, at the bottom,” she said.

Clarksville Fire Rescue Lt. Steven Bryant, a first responder who helped the family immediately afterward, said: “Luckily, [Lord] didn’t suffer life-threatening injuries, which was pretty much a miracle.”

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