Newsweek
“I felt the shaking of the house. Next thing I knew, the tub had lifted and it was out of my hands,” recalled grandmother Clara Lutz.
A Kentucky woman was reunited with two grandchildren after the infants were ripped from her home in a bathtub during last week’s devastating tornado outbreak.
Clara Lutz told local media she was watching her 15-month-old and three-month-old grandchildren on December 10 when the deadly storm system hit her Hopkins County neighborhood. Knowing a tornado was just miles away, Lutz rushed to place the infants inside her bathtub, and cushioned them with blankets and pillows, along with a Bible.
“I felt the rumbling, I felt the shaking of the house. Next thing I knew, the tub had lifted and it was out of my hands. I couldn’t hold on, I just—oh my God,” Lutz recalled, according to local news station WFIE.
Lutz tried to hold the tub with all of her strength, but the storm quickly ripped it from her floor. Her entire house was then stripped down to the foundation, with rubble and debris flying everywhere.
Amid the chaos, Lutz was hit in the back of the head from the bathtub’s water tank. Even so, she quickly got up and went searching for her grandchildren.
“I was looking everywhere to see where the tub may be,” she told WFIE. “All I could say was ‘Lord, please bring my babies back to me safely. Please, I beg thee.'”
Soon after, Sherriff’s deputies arrived at the home, where they found the bathtub overturned in Lutz’s front yard. The babies, both alive, had survived the chaotic weather event.
“I got in the sheriff’s car down at the end of my driveway, and it wasn’t long after that that they opened up the door and brought me Kaden, my 15-month-old. And they brought me my three-month-old, baby Dallas. They brought him to me. He had a goose egg on the back of his head, we didn’t know what was wrong,” Lutz told the news outlet.
Dallas was then taken to Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville, where he found to have experienced some brain bleeding. However, the…
