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Brothers lose everything in storm, grateful to be alive

Brothers lose everything in storm, grateful to be alive
March 18, 2025
Bethal Miles - WAPT

    WALTHALL COUNTY, Mississippi (WAPT) -- A powerful tornado slamming their home.

Kenneth Ratliff and his nephew were walking from the carport to take shelter. He describes what happened next.

โ€œThen the wind turned and blew the opposite way and blew us back up out of the house, and that's when I end up about 45 to 50 feet away from the house, and he ended up still underneath one of the decks that were under the house.โ€

He says their survival was a miracle.

โ€œI don't know if I went unconscious or what, but when I looked up, I saw my nephew. He popped up from my porch, and I said thank God he's all right because nothing is left.โ€

His brother, Greg Ratliff, was experiencing something similar yards away in a different home.

โ€œThis area of the house, which was the hallway we basically just laid down right here.โ€

The two brothers are now left to pick up the pieces

โ€œWe can try to make it through here. Just watch for nails.โ€

Both brothers are carpenters, and now the tools they used are lost in the debris.

โ€œIt's devastating. I can't believe it.โ€

Yet, still thanking God.

โ€œWe still have our lives and we can still give him the glory for it.โ€

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