On December 10, Clara Lutz was watching her 15-month-old and three-month-old grandchildren when the tornado struck her Hopkins County neighborhood in Kentucky. 

Knowing that the twister was just miles away, the woman quickly placed the babies inside the bathtub and covered them with blankets and pillows. She also placed a bible inside the tub. 

“I felt the rumbling, I felt the shaking of the house. Next thing I knew, the tub had lifted and it was out of my hands. I couldn’t hold on, I just—oh my God,” Lutz told local news station WFIE.

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She then used all her strength to hold the tub but the tornado quickly ripped it from her floor.

The woman was hit in the back of the head from the tub’s water tank. Despite this, she quickly got up and started earching the infants.

“I was looking everywhere to see where the tub may be. All I could say was ‘Lord, please bring my babies back to me safely. Please, I beg thee,”” she told the television station.

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She informed the local authorities, who arrived at the home and found the bathtub overturned in the front yard. 

“I got in the sheriff’s car down at the end of my driveway, and it wasn’t long after that that they opened up the door and brought me Kaden, my 15-month-old. And they brought me my three-month-old, baby Dallas. They brought him to me. He had a goose egg on the back of his head, we didn’t know what was wrong,” Lutz said. 

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The 3-month-old was rushed to a local hospital where he was found to have experienced some brain bleeding. The bleeding, however, quickly subsided.

Both of the kids are now healthy. 

A tornado outbreak roared across the middle of the United States last week, leaving dozens dead. In Kentucky alone, over 70 people were confirmed dead.