All any mom wants to do is protect her kids, so when a natural disaster nearly took that ability away from Sydney Moore, she was devastated. A tornado swept through her family’s Tennessee neighborhood, and while she was able to hold on to her 1-year-old son, her 4-month-old was swept away by the cyclone.
Sydney Moore was in shock when the tornado swept through Clarksville.
The EF3 tornado killed six people in total and left more than two dozen injured on December 9. However, Moore had no idea how it would impact her own family.
“Something in me just told me to run and jump on top of my son,” she recalled to WSMV News. “The moment I jumped on him, the walls collapsed. I was being really crushed. I couldn’t breathe.”
The cyclone picked up the bassinet her 4-month-old son was in.
Before Moore or her boyfriend, who witnessed the terrifying event, knew what happened, the tornado had swept their baby away.
“The roof came off first, the tip of the tornado came down and picked up the bassinet with our baby,” she said. “He was the first thing to go up.”
Her boyfriend tried to protect the baby, but he was also picked up by the storm and swept away.
“He was just holding on to the bassinet the whole time, and they went into circles, he said, and then they got thrown,” Moore recalled.
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After the tornado passed, the pair went desperately looking for their son.
Their hopes weren’t high for his survival given the violence of the storm and how small and fragile their baby was.
However, the little one miraculously survived the storm, with the bassinet having landed inside a tree that had fallen, serving as “a little tree cradle.”
Moore said, “I thought he was dead. 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.”
“I will die for my kids. That’s not even a question, and my boyfriend would do the same thing.”
Thankfully, Sydney Moore and her family escaped the tornado with only minor injuries.
While her boyfriend suffered a broken arm and shoulder, everyone else escaped with only “minor cuts and bruises.”
Sadly, their home and most of their belongings were destroyed. A GoFundMe page has since been set up by Moore’s sister to help the family move forward.
