“I asked, are they alive? And (one officer) said, ‘It’s bad, don’t go in there,” Jones said. “And I just lost it. I lost it.”
“She was holding the babies in her arms when the tree fell on her head. She was trying to protect them,” Jones’s granddaughter, Markeya Jones, recalled.
Hurricane Helene is the deadliest hurricane to hit the mainland U.S. since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
As residents continue to clean up, many in the southeast are bracing for what could be another record-breaking storm as Hurricane Milton barrels towards the Tampa Bay Area.
