Tennesee Baby Miracle

[benny05]

My fellow blogger Iddybud penned a post entitled Angels among us about a baby that was thrown out of train and survived in Europe.

In the midst of the tornado rubble that inspectors were going through in Tennessee yesterday, they found an eleven month old baby. At first, they thought it was a doll, then they did the following:

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.

His momma, only 24 years old died in the same field where he was found, a few hundred yards away. No telling what she did to protect her child but couldn't save herself.

Maybe there were angels for Kyson.



No doubt there is joy and sorrow in the Stowell household for the days to come. But amazing strength that he made it. I bet Iddybud and Elizabeth Edwards would love to hold that child and give their empathy and comfort to that family, but there were so many who lost their families and friends that night.

My condolences to all of the families who lost loved ones in those terrible storms on Tuesday night. But in the Elizabeth Edwards tradition, I say Kerri Stowell's name so that her child will remember his lost momma's name too.

[msongs]

1. or maybe the laws of physics favored a positive outcome and superstition had nothing to do with it?

[benny05]

3. Perhaps as I am a Darwianst but it is unexpected and joyful

And wonderous.

I am also a UU!

[asdjrocky]

2. Heartwarming benny-

Thanks for the post. K&R.

[Wiley50]

4. Castalian Springs, where this happened, is only 15 miles from me

In fact, the people whose farm I live on, know someone whose cousin was killed.

The marina where I would have been if I had managed to get my sailboat ready and back in the water last summer, was hit very hard (just over the hill from the post office and houses that were destroyed and 6 people killed). Lots of boats were damaged and an entire dock was broken loose and tossed around.

It's kinda scary living in a fiberglass sailboat when shit like that is going down, but, at least I'm on a trailer on dry land, instead of at that marina, or worse, bouncing around on open water and hoping to hell that the anchors hold.

Too close for comfort for me, but, as they said in the article, you don't see these things until they're on top of you and then it's too late. Even if watching the radar constantly, it either hits you or it hits someone else.

[benny05]

5. Must have been a rough ride too on you

Thanks for sharing your experience..

[asdjrocky]

7. I might be moving to the middle of Missouri-

Do they have tornado's in the middle of Missouri, and how stupid do I sound to you right now?:)

[benny05]

8. They have toradoes in MO

But Columbia is a good place to be. :)

[asdjrocky]

11. You know... I've never liked the idea of tornadoes.

But I do like the idea of Columbia.

[IDDYBUD]

28. Wiley50, to think what could've been....

I'm surely glad you weren't anywhere near the marina on that fateful day. A real estate agent who sold a house for me lived in a mobile home. Tornadoes are rare here in Upstate New York, but it just so happened, one summer day about twenty years ago, while he wasn't at home, a tornado came along and blew his trailer over, up, and away. Being in the right place at the right time is pure luck when it comes to the wild winds.

[benny05]

30. welcome to the DU, Iddybud

Honored you have time to come here and post. :bounce: :hi: :hi:

[IDDYBUD]

36. Thanks, Wiley

I've been a member for a long time, but haven't posted nearly enough.
That will change. I plan to visit much more often. Thanks again for the kind welcome.

[Wiley50]

34. Not Luck...Serendipity, Synchronicity... But not luck

But Thanks!

and Welcome to DU!

[IDDYBUD]

37. Yes...

.."luck" is surely not the accurate description here. Thanks for the welcome!

[benny05]

6. I guess many families lost loved ones

and no one could identify with the single mom who did what she could to save her child. Or it's too painful otherwise.



O8) :cry:

[Andrea]

9. that sweet little baby

I'm a theist and I think there is some meaning in his survival. My heart goes out to all the people rocked by this catastrophe.

K & R

[Catchawave]

10. Beautiful story

Thanks for sharing benny. It just brings us all back to what's important in life afterall.

:hug:

[SecularNATION]

12. Not a miracle.

Some people are killed in storms, some are not. The kid was lucky. That's all.

[benny05]

14. And scientifically, I'd appreciate an explanation

Just curious as he was little, no defense, house destroyed, not certain where house was, and mother was in another part of the field. that's more interesting in the long run. In short run, this is still a miracle until the scientists and forensics get the information together.

Can one not appreciate an 11 month old surviving the storm when his mother did not?

[uppityperson]

18. One can appreciate the luck of the child and sorrow for the mother.

One does not need to call it a miracle as that word strikes the anti-fundamentalist chords in many of us. Quite a story.

[benny05]

19. It is more than luck

But could you at least say that the momma deserves some peace? TIA.

[Ecumenist]

20. I agree with you Benny...

:hi:

[benny05]

21. Thanks

Appreciate it, but this post is for the Stowells. Sad days for them ahead.

But we have much to do.

[Ecumenist]

29. Yes, indeed. Been there, done that personally....

lost my mom under very tragic circumstances.

[uppityperson]

32. Indeed.

I was in a tornado when a toddler. 1 family had 5 (I think) of their kids die in it. Sad days ahead for all involved, am glad that the baby survived.

[Ecumenist]

23. Uppityperson... Please understand that just because some of us

believe in God DOES NOT MAKE US FUNDAMENTALISTS, trust me on that. I've been told by these nuts that simply because I don't accept their crazy "isms", I'm going to hell. The fact that I'm a black woman who refuses to join a church to prove anything to anyone,(especially a mega church), happily married to an Eastern European man and believes that people should let others believe or not believe as they choose makes me just one step about beelzebub. My golden caramel skin is a symbol of the sin of my ancestors according to many of the hardcore ones. Just because we believe in miraculous happenings and God does not make us fundamentalists. :hi:

On edit: I also have the fatal flaw, at least according to them, of calling them on their lies and questioning them at every turn; not accepting their BS blindly. They H-A-T-E people like me.

[uppityperson]

31. I know and I am sorry if I came across saying that, didn't mean it that way.

It is the words that have co-opted and turned and used to the point that I have a difficult time hearing the words "it was a miracle" without becoming like Pavlov's dogs, drooling. Peace to you and go get them.

[SecularNATION]

38. No it is not.

"this is still a miracle until the scientists and forensics get the information together"

Nope. That's not how it works. Only after all natural explanations have been completely ruled out, is a supernatural explanation considered. Calling it a miracle, because you think it is, doesn't make it one. Americans often inappropriately use that term, as you have done here.

[spoony]

41. Not on this website, no

There is no story, no matter how touching or amazing, that will not be shat upon immediately if any hint of the divine is involved. The more militant atheists seem to fear that allowing anyone anywhere to attribute anything good to anything more than chance is to risk total theocracy. There's also the remarkable bitterness.

[citizen53]

13. This is a great story...

amid a great tragedy. Thanks for sharing it.

[benny05]

16. Hi citizen53

Welcome to the DU, appreciate the comment.

:hi:

[OneGrassRoot]

15. K&R n/t

[ordinaryaveragegirl]

17. A big salute to little Kyson!

He's a very lucky little boy. And a fighter. His momma would be proud.

RIP Kerri Stowell, and my best to her family in this difficult time.

[benny05]

22. His momma deserves the most credit

But Kyson appears to be a good little boy!

[dk2]

24. Ah

All I can say it the weather was extreme!

A very bad night in TN.

[benny05]

26. You must have been worried about ur family

thanks for stopping by, dk2. :hug: :hug:

[pamela]

25. Kerri Stowell

I just wanted to join you in saying her name.

K&R

[benny05]

27. And for EE to encourage speaking out names

of our lost ones. Shoutout for EE:



She is so good.

[pamela]

33. Yes. I love EE.

I was reading her book when John dropped out. I had to stop reading it for a while but I'm going to get back to it. It was taking me forever to get through the part on Wade because I couldn't stop crying.

Thanks for posting this story from the tornadoes. I visited that area this fall on a cross-country roadtrip. It is so sad and so frightening how quickly our lives can change, or worse, come to an end. The devastation in that area is almost Katrina-like in scope but the media seems more focused on the "horse race."

[IDDYBUD]

35. A bittersweet survival story

What a story. And what a beautiful child. It reminds me of something similar that happened a number of years ago after a terribe storm when a baby was found at the base of a tree covered in mud.
link to video: http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=428996&fr=


My heart goes out to Kyson and his surviving family members. We can only hope he remembers his mother..and that she's kept alive through the stories they'll tell him as he grows.
Knowing how a mother feels, always fiercely protective of her child, I'd wager that if she'd known it had to be her or Kyson, there would have been no choice. If there's any strange comfort to be taken away from this incident, I'd say that's where the family might find it.

Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) said that neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. Kyson is living proof of his mother's existence and her love while she lived here.

Thanks for sharing this story with us, benny05.

[benny05]

39. Listen to this song

Arms of the Angels, seems appropriate here:


http://www.youtube.com/v/zZHrbjhwKik&rel=1

Some comfort here...arms in of an angel, may you find some comfort here.

[ordinaryaveragegirl]

40. Putting a face to the name of this brave young mother...

From the late Kerri Stowell's MySpace page...



The most selfless gift of all...sacrificing her own life, to save the life of her only son. :cry:

[Wcross]

43. Thanks for posting the picture, I hope someone saves it for the baby.

It would be nice for him to see how much his mother loved him when he gets a little older. Fortunately his grandparents are still alive & are going to raise him as their own. They are young for grandparents (mid 40's) & have young children of their own. There is already a college scholarship fund set up for him at a local bank. I just hope the little guy doesn't have any more tragedy in his life.

[malaise]

42. We're all delighted that this lovely little boy survived but

please spare me the miracle part of it. Babies always have a better chance of surviving because their bones are so much softer than those of adults. To assume a miracle here is to assume some god's wrath towards those who did not survive.

And yes I wish him a wonderful life.