Baby a Sign of Hope in Devastated South

My Way ^ | 7 Feb 5008 | BETH RUCKER and BILL POOVEY

[maine-iac7]

At first, rescuers thought it was a doll. Then it moved.

In a grassy pasture strewn with toys, splintered lumber and bricks tossed by the tornado's widespread wrath, 11-month old Kyson Stowell was lying face down in the mud, 150 yards from where his home once stood.

"It looked like a baby doll," said David Harmon, a firefighter who had already combed the field once looking for survivors. Then he checked for a pulse. "He was laying there motionless ... and he took a breath of air and started crying."

The field had already been combed once for survivors, and finding anyone alive seemed improbable. Hours after the storm, there was devastation everywhere: The body of the boy's mother was found in the same field,.........

[maine-iac7]

The mother had been on the phone with family, was in the bathtub, holding her baby tight......she didn't make it, but her little one did -

[maine-iac7]

Kyson Stowell, 11 months

[wideawake]

she didn't make it, but her little one did

It's a horrible tragedy, but at least it worked out the way she would have preferred it.

[80 Square Miles]

It's a horrible tragedy, but at least it worked out the way she would have preferred it.

The way all real moms would prefer. And he's young enough, he won't remember much of it, if anything.

[Coldwater Creek]

Same thing happened in OKC a few years ago.

We are so Lucky to have so few killed with such horrible destruction in Tennessee.

[80 Square Miles]

Amen.