A spine-chilling event unfolded in Tennessee on December 9, as a destructive tornado tore through a mobile home, leaving devastation in its wake.Sydney Moore and Aramis Youngblood, the parents of a four-month-old baby boy, described the harrowing experience they went through when he was sucked into the tornado.
Sydney, 22, recounted the terrifying moment when the tornado approached, tearing off the roof of their mobile home. She vividly recalled the tornado lifting the bassinet containing her baby, Lord, as her boyfriend, Aramis, tried to shield the child from being swept away.“The tip of the tornado came down and picked up the bassinet with my baby, Lord, in it. He was the first thing to go up,” Sydney told Australia’s 9 News.Lt. Steven Bryant from Clarksville Fire Rescue, one of the initial responders, described the chaotic scene after Sydney sought help, traversing over a mile. Aramis detailed the frightening experience of holding onto the spinning bassinet during the tornado’s onslaught.Sydney recounted an instinctive act of protection for her one-year-old son, Princeton. “Something in me just told me to run and jump on top of my son,” she said, explaining that she made the quick decision to do so to shield him from the collapsing walls.Amid the chaos, Sydney and her son Princeton emerged from the rubble virtually unscathed. After the tornado passed, the search for Lord began. Sydney described the surreal sight of Aramis bringing Lord back through the devastation.“I saw [Aramis] walking through the woods, carrying Lord in the pouring down rain, and all of his clothes were ripped. It was like a scene in a movie,” she told Good Morning America.