SELMA, Ala. — Amanda McCloud was working in a Selma, Alabama, day care changing a toddler's diapers when she heard the tornado sirens begin to wail.
"Most of the time, nothing ever happened," she told ABC News about the tornado sirens she's grown used to hearing, but she said it was different last Thursday.
McCloud was working at the Crosspoint Christian Church's child care and preschool in Selma, entrusted with caring for about six children that ranged in age from 7 weeks to 4 months old. Sixty children attended the preschool and nursery, with students as old as 4 years old, she said. "And then the roof just fell, like tiles and the ceiling tiles, you know, everything on top of us," she said."So, like it was pouring down rain on the kids."
As she tried to move the kids to a safer location, McCloud said she was surprised to find a 4-month-old child unscathed under the rubble. "People were coming just saying, 'we smell gas, we smell gas!'" she said."And I was like, 'Yeah, me too,' because we gotta get out of the building." "My kids really listened really good that day. It wasn't hard moving them. They really did great," she said.
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