A few days ago, a devastating tornado ripped through several southern US states, killing six people and destroying more than a hundred homes.
Sydney Moore, 22, and her partner Aramis Youngblood thought their caravan would save them and their two young children from a tornado, but 150mph winds tore their home apart.
Before that, the tornado ripped the roof off the trailer and pulled out the crib containing a four-month-old baby named Lord. At that moment, Sydney hugged her second son, one-year-old Princeton, tightly.
Aramis tried to save the Lord by grasping his cradle with his hands. However, the tornado easily grabbed the father and son lifted them into the air, then threw Aramis outside, tore the cradle with the baby from his hands and carried him away in an unknown direction.
When the wind died down, all that was left was debris from the family’s trailer. Sidney and Princeton were buried under the rubble, but managed to escape unscathed. Nearby they found Aramis with bruises and cuts, but alive, and the Lord was nowhere to be seen.
They had already decided he was dead, but began inspecting the area around the former trailer. And about ten minutes later they suddenly discovered the Lord’s cradle nearby, on the trunk of a nearly fallen tree. The child was alive in the crib and had only a small scratch on his cheek and another scratch on his ear.
It looked almost unreal. According to the baby’s mother, it was as if a tornado had very carefully and gently placed the child on the branches of a tree.
“He [Aramis] found him lying in a tree, as if someone had deliberately placed him in that tree. All he had was a scratch on the side of his face. It must have been God.
I thought he was dead. I was almost certain he was dead and we wouldn’t find him. But he is here, and it is by the grace of God,” Sydney says.
Sister Sydney also believes in divine intervention and says that Lord was placed in the tree “as an angel” and “they brought him safely to this place.”
The tornado completely destroyed all of the family’s property, but town residents helped them with their belongings and now they just need to find a new home. People have already donated about $42,000 to them for a new trailer.
