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The Youngest Hurricane Helene Casualties: Twin Babies Who Died Beside Their Mother
Hurricane Helene has killed over 230 people in six states as of Tuesday, and hundreds more are still unaccounted for.
Twin brothers Khyzier and Khazmir Williams, thought to be the youngest victims of Hurricane Helene, are among the deceased. Together with their mother, Kobe Williams, the five-week-old twins perished when a tree in Thomson, Georgia, smashed through their mobile home.
“Nobody was taking the storm seriously,” Mary Jones, Williams’ mother and the boys’ grandmother, told Today.com. “Then it started, and the wind was so loud. When the lights went off, Kobe got really scared. She was worried about the babies.”
Jones and her kid listened to the cyclone wreaking havoc outside their house all night long. approximately 5:15 a.m. In order for Williams to sleep, Jones fed Khyzier, but her fear kept her awake.
Williams stayed awake until Jones finally dozed off. Jones fell asleep less than an hour later, and she woke up to a “strange shushing” sound and a spooky silence.
When she went to look into it, she discovered that a tree had damaged her daughter’s bedroom.
“I started screaming, ‘Kobe! Answer me! Please answer me!’ It was so dark and I couldn’t see anything except branches.”
The rubble was too dense for the neighbors to find Williams and her boys, so they ran. Everyone’s greatest worries were fulfilled when the police showed up.
“I asked, are they alive? And (one officer) said, ‘It’s bad, don’t go in there,” Jones said. “And I just lost it. I lost it.”
“She was holding the babies in her arms when the tree fell on her head. She was trying to protect them,” Jones’s granddaughter, Markeya Jones, recalled.
Since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Hurricane Helene has become the most deadly hurricane to strike the U.S. mainland.
Many people in the southeast are preparing for what may be another record-breaking storm as Hurricane Milton roars into the Tampa Bay Area, as locals continue to clean up.
There are no adequate words to describe the extent of Hurricane Helene’s destruction. The fact that so many people’s livelihoods and families were destroyed in such a short period of time saddens me.
Please offer up prayers for all those affected.
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