Doll? No, it's a baby found alive after tornado (11 mos. old) WOW

[underpants]

Source: MSNBC

CASTALIAN SPRINGS, Tenn. - The muddy field was littered with debris after a wave of violent storms: Living room couches, strollers, children's toys. So when two rescuers came upon a baby, they thought he was a doll.

Then he moved.

"We grabbed hold of his neck (to take a pulse) and he took a breath of air and started crying," said David Harmon, a firefighter from a nearby county who was combing the field for tornado victims.


Kyson Stowell, 11 months, is held by his grandmother Kay Stowell at a hospital in Nashville, Tenn., on Thursday. Kyson was found in a field about 100 yards away from where his house had been. His mother, Kerri Stowell, was killed.
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Just wow. I got teared up. That is as far as I got reading this

[uppityperson]

1. Much better outcome than tornado I was in as a kid

People had to search debris field for one family's 5 missing (dead) kids.

Edited to add, my condolences to the family and glad the baby made it alive.

[midnight]

2. This is bitter sweet information. Grandma looks young and

able to help care for Kyson. How sad that his mother is gone.

[CottonBear]

3. What a miracle. However, It is so tragic that his mother was killed.

:(
Baby Kyson is fortunate to have his grandmother who must be heartbroken about the death of his mother.

[JackintheGreen]

4. Too young to remember his grief

lucky sod...

[JuniperLea]

5. Poor little sweetie must have been terrified!

Bittersweet... good he has a grandmother to step in, so sorry about his mother, I hope he doesn't remember this... what a miracle boy he is.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. I saw that in the WP this morning...

They found the poor little guy face down in the mud. He was shivering and in apparent shock. His rescuers were relieved when he started to cry. Poor little sweetie...I'm glad he's alive, and has his grandparents.

[ursi]

7. how sad! his momma was killed!

glad he made it!

[kestrel91316]

8. I'm terrified of tornadoes. I lived in Xenia OH at the time of the 1974 F5.

[underpants]

9. Really?

I was born at Greene Memorial
We had just moved out of Yellow Springs (to Virginia) when the tornados hit.

Small world.

[kestrel91316]

11. We lived in the Beavercreek section of Greene County,

which is now its own city, but was Xenia PO at the time.

My HS, Beavercreek HS, was the backup HS location when Xenia HS was destroyed by the tornado. They had classes 3 PM to 11 PM in our school for the rest of the year.

I remember that day. I remember the underside of the clouds looking like dingy green cotton balls, which I never saw anywhere before or since. I remember how the total destruction was MANY square miles, and the story about the guy at Wilberforce Univ (?) who was last in the rush to get into a campus building to safety and didn't quite make it, slipping from the grasp of the others and flying away, to be found later in a tree. Quite dead.

Like I said. I'm REALLY afraid of tornadoes.

[underpants]

16. I remember about the split high school schedule

I take back what I said earlier-we were still living in Yellow Springs we were ABOUT to move to Virginia. That day we were in Indianapolis because my mom had a job interview. The cars in the parking lot were bouncing off the ground due to tornados in THAT area.

[bamademo]

22. I lived in Huntsville, Al in 1974 and I was in an F4

I can empathize. It doesn't sound like a freight train. It sounds like the space shuttle.

[nealmhughes]

23. I lived in Florence then and still remember Jerry Hayes on TV after the power came back on. . .

My brother-in-law was in the Airport Road tornado fifteen years ago or so, he was the first car that wasn't in the rubble pile on the side of the road, had he been just a few seconds earlier getting onto Airport Road. . .

[phantom power]

10. A place to help;

http://monkeyfister.blogspot.com/2008/02/toll-is-at-52-and-rising.html

[Adsos Letter]

12. Very tear inducing...I can only imagine what emotions the rescue personnel felt...

[underpants]

14. My wife emailed me about this

I got teared up thinking about the mother holding onto the baby no matter what. I am totally guessing here but I think it is safe to assume that she held the baby for as long as possible.

Okay now I am tearing up again.

[closeupready]

13. poor thing.

Happy and sad story, at the same time. Makes me wish there was something I could do.

[underpants]

15. See post #10

:hi:

[closeupready]

17. Ah, thanks!

:hi: :)

[crim son]

18. What a sweet, soulful face.

It's good to know Chertoff has everything under control, for this wee lad's sake. :grr:

[Maat]

19. I teared up also. As a retired social worker, I know that ...

these grandkids that survive are sometimes the only thing that help the grandparents keep on going once they lose their child.

Healing and comforting thoughts, prayers, and consciousness to the Stowell family.

[lonestarnot]

20. What a sweet little angel.

[Orsino]

21. This is what happened to my father...

...back in the early years of the Depression. The house was leveled, but he was found, muddy and scratched up a bit, in a neighboring field. He was two or three years old then.

[ToughLuck]

24. Oh God, I thought happy ending..until I got to the end of story :(

[Historic NY]

25. A miracle indeed, my condolences to his family on their loss.