'By the grace of God': Family finds 4-month-old baby in a tree after tornado obliterates their home in Tennessee

A Tennessee family is thankful despite their home being destroyed by a tornado because their 4-month-old baby son survived after being sucked out of his room and onto a nearby tree.

22-year-old Sydney Moore told WSMV-TV that she and her boyfriend tried to save their 4-month-old baby when their mobile home was caught in the path of a tornado in Clarksville. She was with her other son, who is 1 year old, when she heard and felt the winds pick up outside on Saturday.

“Something in me just told me to run and jump on top of my son. Literally the moment I jumped on him, the walls collapsed," Moore said.

“The roof came off first, the tip of the tornado came down and picked up the bassinet with my baby, Lord, in it,” she added. “He was the first thing to go up.”

Her boyfriend tried to hang on to the bassinet but it was caught in the winds of the tornado.

“He was just holding on to the bassinet the whole time, and they went into circles, he said, and then they got thrown,” she said.

Moore said she was crushed after the trailer collapsed on her and her child but she was able to dig her way out of the debris. They searched for 10 minutes in the pouring rain for the baby before they found him in a fallen tree.

She feared that the baby had died.

“I thought he was dead,” Moore said. “I was pretty sure he was dead and we weren’t going to find him. But he’s here, and that’s by the grace of God.”

The baby had a gash on the face and needed medical treatment but was otherwise unharmed.

Although they lost all their belongings in the tornado, Moore said the community has stepped in to help them. There's also a GoFundMe account that has thus far raised more than $25K for the family.

“I will die for my kids. That’s not even a question," said Moore. "And my boyfriend would do the same thing."

Clarksville is a city on the northern border of Tennessee with a population of 166,000 people.

Here's the video of the startling incident:

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