Jamal Stephens suffered only minor damage from a tornado destroyed a two-story Friday that his home in Charlotte near Interstate 485, where Jamal was found by his family, after a few minutes after a tornado hit the neighborhood.
"I've never seen or heard anything like it," said Patricia Stevens, referring to the moment when the twister "suck the walls" at home in the dark. "It was a terrible noise. I do not want it again. I do not want anyone to ever go through that again."
The house was blown off the second floor, there was little, except for the garage and is subjected to internal staircase. Pink insulation and debris littered the yard, which adjoins the embankment to the highway.
Stevens said that she slept on a couch down the night the tornado hit, while her daughter-in-law and four grandchildren aged between 3 and 7, sleeps upstairs.
Lightning and thunder suddenly took was a terrible noise, and his daughter-in-law began to move down the Stevens children from 3 years old twins Ashley and Amber.
When his mother ran upstairs to get Jamal and Ayanna 5 years, Stevens shot herself and the children for bed.
"That's when the whole wall was just sucked," said Stevens. "I just sat there and I just saw the walls of sucked. I thought," Wait, I see you? "
She broke the bathroom door, thinking about the security measures she had heard on television about the gathering of children and sat in the bathroom, but the door is all that remains.
"The bathroom was not, and I was looking outside," she said, adding that the twins are eventually recovered and ran to find Jamal and Ayanna, both of which have been sucked out of the house.
Little Ashley was not injured. Her twin sister, Amber, was found under rubble in the living room, alive but injured. Ayanna was rushed into the yard neighbor, and Jamal was swept along the waterfront road, Stevens said.
The children were taken to hospital for children, where Levin Jamal was treated and released, hospital spokesman said. Two sisters were under observation and released on Sunday.
"Children today are in very good spirits," said Phil Whitesell, a representative of the health care system Carolina, adding that their mother was crying earlier in the day.
"She was obviously very grateful that her children were safe," he said. "I think they were all really wanted to be together."
Stevens was waiting for Sunday to see his daughter-in-law for the first time since a tornado destroyed the house. The greatest interest in Jamal, she said, was that his favorite video game console Xbox did not survive the storm.
Thus, they have lost everything, but they wore clothes, Stevens said that she considered it a blessing.
"People see the house, and they continue to say that they can not believe we went," she said. "They just keep talking."
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