Storm chaser rescues family after tornado rips through home with them inside

Posted by Valeria Galgano on Sunday, July 14, 2024

HODGES, Texas (KTXS) — A Texas family is counting their many blessings after a tornado ripped through their home last week. Kasey Lambert says her worst fear as a mother came true on May 2 as she and her husband Wes Lambert held onto their kids as tightly as they could while a tornado obliterated their home.

Wes and I tried to cover them as much as I could,” Kasey Lambert said. “I remember hearing glass bricks coming down. They were coming down on top of us. We just continued to brace and hold them as tightly as possible. Wes reached up to cover my head. At that point the suction became so strong it sucked Lane out of Wes’ arms.

“But it only picked me up about 25 feet,” Lane Lambert said.

It was at this point Kasey Lambert says her worst fear came to life.

“I had to just pray to God please just cover him,” Kasey Lambert said. “Be there for him and protect him, and he did because he did take some impact.”

“On the head,” Lane Lambert said. “One brick hit me in the back.”

But he’s ok,” Kasey Lambert said. “We’re all ok. Our daughter Ally has minor scratches on her back. Wes has a broken wrist, several contusions, several bruises, several scrapes. I’m beat up. But big guy took the worst of it. I just remember looking over and seeing him on top of this pile of insulation. I think that saved him.

After desperately scrambling to get her son out of the rubble, Kasey Lambert says running away from the place her family used to call home was the only thing on her mind.

“When the tornado lifted, I was just desperate for a storm chaser or someone to have seen and know that we were in desperate need of help,” Kasey Lambert said. “I looked up and there was the car. I just grabbed Ally, and I just started running. I yelled to Wes and Lane come on we have to go get help. It was like an angel. He was there to take us.”

The mother says the overpowering love waiting at the hospital for the Lambert family was life-changing.

Next thing I know floods of people are showing up,” Kasey Lambert said. “We had people from all over coming, and that’s what I needed because I couldn’t be there for both of my children at the time.”

The Lambert family thanked the storm chaser, Freddy McKinney, who rescued them from the tornado. The family says the storm chaser was their guardian angel.

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