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Posted by Maire on 2/10/2008, 12:13 am, in reply to "Re: Im OK!"
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Glad to hear you are ok, Matt. I was amazed at the babys survival as well. God must have important things for him to do. So sad that his mother died - so young. Maire
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: Matt, I am so glad that you are safe!!!!!!!!
: I was amazed by the following story:
: Eleven-month-old Kyson Stowell was found
: face down in a muddy field after being
: picked up by a tornado that killed his
: mother and wrecked his home.
:
: "He's just a miracle, luck, God
: watching over him - it's all it can
: be," said his grandfather Doug Stowell.
:
: At least 55 people were killed as the storms
: swept through on Tuesday.
:
: It was the deadliest tornado barrage in two
: decades, the US news agency Associated Press
: (AP) reported.
:
: It tore apart communities in Tennessee,
: Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas,
: on the same day that residents of some of
: those states voted in the US presidential
: primaries.
:
:
: It was as rescue workers combed the
: devastated town of Castalian Springs,
: Tennessee, that firefighter David Harmon
: came across what looked "like a baby
: doll".
:
: "He was laying face down with his arms
: above his head... He was just laying there
: motionless, wasn't moving," Mr Harmon
: said.
: The baby was lying 100m or more from the
: ruins of his house. His mother, 23-year-old
: Kerri Stowell, was found dead in the same
: field.
:
:
: He was taken to the children's hospital at
: Vanderbilt University, but had only light
: cuts and bruises.
:
: Dr Tom Morgan said: "Maybe he landed on
: something that lessened his blow, maybe he,
: you know, came down against a bush or
: something. I think it was probably mostly
: luck, God's grace."
:
: Others in the community also saw it as
: divine intervention - a ray of hope amid the
: destruction visited on them in a few violent
: hours.
:
: Reverend Doyle Farris of nearby Hartsville
: Pike Church of Christ said "even in the
: midst of the worst storm... if you look, you
: can find an inspiration or a bright
: spot".
:
: "The child will always be a reminder in
: this community of that message," he
: told AP.
:
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