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Hurricane Helene: twin babies who died with mother become youngest victims​


Kobe Williams, 27, and boys Khyzier and Khazmir died after relatives say tree fell through roof in Thomson, Georgia

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Thu 3 Oct 2024 18.17 EDT

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Kobe Williams and her twin sons Khazmir and Khyzier, who died in their home in Thomson, Georgia. Photograph: AP

Twin babies who died alongside their mother in Georgia on Thursday became the youngest known victims of the monster Hurricane Helene and the storm’s devastating aftermath.

Obie Williams could hear babies crying and branches battering the windows when he answered his daughter’s daily phone call last week as the storm tore through her rural Georgia town after roaring across the Gulf of Mexico and making landfall in northwestern Florida.

Kobe Williams, 27, and her newborn twin boys were hunkering down at their trailer home in Thomson, Georgia, and starting to fear for their safety. She promised her father she would heed his advice to shelter in the bathroom with her month-old babies until the storm passed.

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Minutes later, she was no longer answering her family’s calls. One of her brothers dodged fallen trees and downed power lines to check on her later that day, and he could barely bear to tell his father what he saw.

A large tree had crashed through the roof, crushing Kobe and causing her to fall on top of infant sons Khyzier and Khazmir. 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 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 20 August, are the youngest known victims of a storm that had claimed at least 200 lives across Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia and the Carolinas as of Thursday.

Among the other young victims are a seven-year-old girl and a four-year-old boy from about 50 miles south, in Washington county, Georgia.

In the elder Williams’ home city of Augusta, 30 miles east of his daughter’s home in Thomson, power lines stretched along the sidewalks, tree branches blocked the roads and utility poles lay cracked and broken. The debris left him trapped in his neighborhood near the South Carolina border for a little over a day after the storm barreled through.

Kobe, a single mother nursing newborns, had told her family it was not possible for her to evacuate with such young babies, her father said.

Relatives are waiting for the bodies to be released by the county coroner and for roads to be cleared before arranging a funeral.

Williams described his daughter as a lovable, social and strong young woman. She always had a smile on her face and loved to make people laugh, he said.

She was studying to be a nursing assistant but had taken time off from school to give birth to her sons.

“That was my baby,” her father said. “And everybody loved her.”
This is sad as fukk smh. R.I.P to her and her sons and condolences to her family and friends.
 

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Prayers to any brehs and brehettes still going through it due to this storm. It's crazy how this isn't the lead story in the media, especially given the growing death toll. I can't recall a hurricane having these amount of fatalities outside Katrina.
 

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There are people who legitimately think a weather machine caused all of this. This is a new low, even for conspiracy theorists. :gucci:

society is unwilling to address that there are a significant number of people who don't believe that nature just happens to cause natural disasters ; that it must be somebody controlling everything. people desperate to make sense of reality and that "chaos" a natural.
 

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There are people who legitimately think a weather machine caused all of this. This is a new low, even for conspiracy theorists. :gucci:

Don't forget the part where the weather machine did this so the government can come in and take there land :snoop: we are truly doomed
 

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There are people who legitimately think a weather machine caused all of this. This is a new low, even for conspiracy theorists. :gucci:
I'm more upset at how many people believe it though. Back then it was just a minority, now it seems that there is more and more people deep into these bullshyt conspiracies.
 

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Wow at the death toll. Hope all the Coli folks in the storm path are good.
 

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Instead of supporting its citizens during a natural disaster caused by climate change, the US wastes its capital on Defence spending on other countries that are accelerating carbon emissions by carpet bombing civilians.

They got money for wars and other countries but don’t want to help their own citizens.

Sad.

Forever peace to those that past away.
 

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Tillis on Helene response: "I'm out here to say that we're doing a good job, and those who may not be on the ground, who are making those assessments ought to get on the ground."

[Quoted tweet]
TILLIS in Ashville on the fed response: "They're doing a great job. They can always work harder..."
yewtu.be/watch?v=f-Hdq0Zw…



To post tweets in this format, more info here: https://www.thecoli.com/threads/tips-and-tricks-for-posting-the-coli-megathread.984734/post-52211196

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