A Georgia woman and her twin sons sadly lost their lives when a tree fell on the roof of their home, per WSBTV. Kobe Williams, 27, had recently told her father that she and her newborn twins were staying at their trailer in Thomson while Hurricane Helene hit the southeast.
Before he ended the call to check in on his other kids, he advised her to take shelter in the bathroom with her one-month-old babies until the storm was over. A few minutes later, she stopped answering her family’s calls. Later that day, one of her brothers went to check on her, carefully avoiding fallen trees and power lines, and it was too hard for him to tell their father what he found.
A large tree fell through the roof, hitting Kobe and causing her to land on her baby sons, Khyzier and Khazmir. Sadly, all three were found dead.
“I’d seen pictures when they were born and pictures every day since, but I hadn’t made it out there yet to meet them,”
Obie Lee Williams told The Associated Press days after the storm ravaged eastern Georgia.
“Now I’ll never get to meet my grandsons. It’s devastating.”
The babies, born on August 20, are the youngest known victims of the storm, which has claimed 200 lives as of Thursday. Other young victims include a 7-year-old girl and a 4-year-old boy from Washington County, Georgia, about 50 miles south.
Kobe, a single mother who recently gave birth to twin boys, told her family that she couldn’t evacuate with such small babies, according to her father. Many of his other 14 children still don’t have power at their homes in Georgia, he said. Some have traveled to Atlanta for shelter, while others have gone to Augusta to be with their father and grieve together. They are waiting for the county coroner to release the bodies and for the roads to be cleared before planning a funeral.
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