The Kentucky Tornado Swept Away Two Babies in a Bathtub. Miraculously, They Survived.

Residents, organizations and volunteers clear belongings and debris from homes destroyed in the Creekwood subdivision by the Dec. 11 tornadoes on Hillridge Court in Bowling Green, Ky., Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021. More than 30 tornadoes tore through Kentucky and seven other states, killing multiple people. Thousands of residents have lost their houses or are without power. (Grace Ramey/Daily News via AP)Grace Ramey/AP

As a deadly tornado bore down on her neighborhood just over a week ago, a Kentucky grandmother reportedly placed her two grandchildren in the bathtub with a blanket, a pillow and a Bible.

Her house in Hopkins County, Ky., was stripped to its foundation by the force of the tornado. The tub was swept away with the children inside. Miraculously, they survived.

“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,” Clara Lutz told WFIE-TV.

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SOURCE: Greenwich Times | Rachel Pannett , The Washington Post