Two Kentucky infants placed in a bathtub with a blanket, pillow and a Bible by their grandmother as a deadly tornado approached survived even after the tub was ripped from the floor and “lifted”.
During the storm that killed at least 92 last weekend, grandmother Clara Lutz said a prayer and hid 15-month-old Kaden and three-month-old Dallas with a blanket, a pillow and a Bible in the bathtub just before it was ripped out of the ground.
“Next thing I knew, the tub had lifted and it was out of my hands.
“I couldn’t hold on. I just — oh my God.”
Lutz, who had been hit in the back of the head by the water tank from the tub, said she began looking everywhere among the wreckage for the children.
“All I could say was, ‘Lord please bring my babies back safely. Please, I beg thee’,” she said.
In bodycam footage police raced to lift the overturned bathtub, finding the boy and girl alive. One deputy said “both of them are okay Ma’am” handing them back to a distressed Lutz.
“Praise God, Lord Jesus I love you,” she replied as the pair were returned to her arms.
Dallas had a minor brain bleed from hitting his head but the bleeding had stopped before Lutz arrived at the hospital, she said.
Hopkins County Sheriff Matt Sanderson said that deputies Trent Arnold and Troy Blue, along with members of the public Timmy Vannoy and Michael Crook, helped find and untangle the children from their blankets.
The National Weather Service recorded at least 41 tornadoes, including 16 in Tennessee and eight in Kentucky.
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