When tornadoes struck several southern states last weekend, two babies in Kentucky were sheltering in a bathtub when it was ripped from the ground and tossed with them inside, according to their grandmother.
Both babies, 15-month-old Kaden and 3-month-old Dallas, were okay after they were placed in the bathtub by their grandmother Clara Lutz with a pillow, blanket, and bible, she told WFIE-TV.
Lutz went on to say that the children were in the tub when the house started to shake, and she watched the bathtub take off.
"Next thing I knew, the tub had lifted, and it was out of my hands," Lutz said. "I couldn't hold on. I just – oh my God."
After the tornado moved on, Lutz said she searched for the children in her destroyed house that was stripped to its foundation. When the tub flew away she had been struck in the back of the head by the water tank from it.
"All I could say was, 'Lord, please bring my babies back safely. Please, I beg thee,'" she said.
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The bathtub had made its way out into Lutz's front yard and was upside down, and both children were underneath it. Deputies from the Hopkins County Sheriff's Office drove to the end of her driveway, reuniting her with the two children, she said.
The 3-month-old, Dallas, was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville because of a bump he got that was causing his brain to bleed. However, the bleeding stopped before Lutz made it to the hospital.
The children's parents live on the north end of the county, and their home survived the tornadoes being barely touched, Lutz said.
There have been at least 90 people confirmed dead across several states following the more than 40 tornadoes that touched down.
So far, Kentucky appears to be the most devastated state from the storms, with state emergency management officials and its health department putting the current death count at 75.
