Sydney Moore lived in a mobile home with her boyfriend and their two young children — a 4-month-old baby and a 1-year-old toddler. The morning had begun quietly, even ordinarily. Weather alerts circulated, but severe warnings are common in Tennessee, and few anticipated the tornado’s sudden strength. Within minutes, the storm intensified into something far more violent than anyone expected.
As the winds picked up, the family gathered inside their home, hoping to wait out the storm as they had so many times before. But this tornado did not pass them by. It struck directly. The roof tore away first, then the walls buckled, and the structure began to disintegrate around them. Inside, their infant lay in a bassinet — a detail that would soon become the center of an unbelievable survival story.
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