A four-month-old boy has survived after a tornado in Tennessee sucked him up from his family’s mobile home, which was demolished in the storm.
25.11.2023 - 14:07 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A family has been forced to move out of their home of 44 years after a group of teen joyriders smashed through the wall destroying the home.
Kerry and Georgia Smith told how they are lucky to be alive after the motor came crashing into their living room. Georgia was rushed to hospital with a fractured cheekbone, jaw and eye socket and a bleed on the brain.
Her sister Kerry, who is 56, was thrown under a pile of rubble during the "blood bath" and already struggles with M.S. Now the sisters have been left staying with friends as their home is unsuitable, reports the Stoke Senitel.
Kerry said: “We were just sitting watching TV. She was sitting at one end of the settee and me the other. I heard this bang and I was on my knees. I looked back and I could see this van but I couldn’t see George. I had to crawl to the hallway to reach the landline. My mobile was somewhere under the rubble.
“I called the emergency services. The operator was asking me questions like ‘Is she breathing?’. She wasn't just breathing, she was screaming. There was a pool of blood, it was a bloodbath, it was my leg that was bleeding.
“The emergency services had to dig her out from the rubble. I had to go out to the ambulance without shoes or anything. I got in the ambulance but I wouldn’t leave until I saw my sister come out.”
Royal Stoke consultants are monitoring Georgina’s bleed on the brain and may operate once the swelling has reduced.
Kerry added: “It’s not going to be a quick process. There will be no licence and no insurance and they must have been going at some speed to cause that devastation.
“Forty-four years of memories in that home are destroyed now. My mum and dad’s ashes are in the bungalow. There are things which are sentimental. It’s
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