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.Kobe Williams, who was killed with her twin sons Khazmir Williams and Khyzier Williams in their home in Thomson, Georgia, by a falling tree during Hurricane Helene on Monday, September 30, 2024. 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.
Among the other young victims are a seven-year-old girl and a four-year-old boy from about 80 kilometres south in Washington County, Georgia.Twin brothers Khazmir and Khyzier Williams were born on August 20. Their grandfather hadn't met them yet when they were killed by a falling tree in their Georgia home.
The debris left him trapped in his neighbourhood near the South Carolina border for a little over a day after the storm barrelled through.
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