On Thursday, andall McCloud watched as trees fell Doug the porch was torn apart from the entry to his mother's home in central Alabama. It was about to get lot worse.
As he sprinted from the kitchen toward his mother and cousin in a hallway, he abruptly ran out of room.
McCloud described the moment a tornado destroyed his mother's home to CNN's Amara Walker on Saturday: "The floor disintegrated under my feet, and I went straight to the ground" beneath it.
One of the twisters that tore through the South on Thursday had just clobbered the house in the Marbury neighbourhood of Autauga County, about 25 miles northwest of Montgomery. Nine individuals, including two in Georgia, were killed by the storms that day, including seven in one county alone.
McCloud was alive but bruised.
To go back up into the end that was still standing, one had to crawl. "Crawl up into the hallway once more," he advised.
He located his mother and cousin, who were both fine. They were surrounded by debris and had no immediate escape route, with the exception of the corridor and a small portion of the kitchen.
McCloud "pushed her up against the refrigerator" after getting his mother into a walker with a seat out of concern that the ceiling could collapse.
He explained, "I felt the refrigerator might take some of the power of the roof coming down some if the roof fell. As a result, "we were all kind of crowded together" in a small space in the kitchen.
It was only the two of us sitting there, fearing that the remainder of the roof and other items would collapse on us at any moment.
The area was destroyed, so there was no easy way to reach them.
Gary Weaver, the deputy director of the county's emergency management department, reported that at least 20 residences in Autauga County were either destroyed or damaged. The National Weather Service reported that the EF-3 wind intensity, which denotes gusts of at least 136 mph, was what caused the damage.
The Marbury region of Autuaga County is 45 miles or so northeast of Selma, an Alabama city famous for its involvement in the civil rights movement, which was struck by an EF-2 tornado on Thursday.
The National Weather Service reported on Friday that the same storm affected both places, though it wasn't immediately obvious if the trail of destruction was continuous.
Workers were able to access the home and the family inside around three hours after the tornado struck. The mother of McCloud was carried away on a gurney. We felt much better once we were able to remove her, he claimed.
According to McCloud, both his own home and the home of another relative were completely destroyed.
According to McCloud's daughter Tiffany McCloud, he and his mother are residing with his brother "until we can work out a more permanent arrangement."
Randall McCloud remarked, "I definitely don't want to experience that again." It was a struggle.
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