Pregnant Woman, Toddler Escape Storm's Wrath

COBB COUNTY, Ga. -- A sense of relief is making the cleanup a little easier for a Cobb County family after a tree crashed into the bedrooms of a toddler and a pregnant woman.

"It's a miracle," homeowner Dale Buzbee told GA Daily News reporter Manuel Bojorquez.

Everyone had settled in for the night at the house on Rex Drive in Marietta, thinking the worst of the storms had passed.

"[My granddaughter] was sleeping on this bed, on a white pillow, when everything happened," Buzbee said.

The 20-year-old woman is three months pregnant and escaped without injury, despite the debris that rained down on her.

Buzbee's 2-year-old great-grandson, Braxton, was covered with debris when relatives rushed to get him out of his bedroom. He also was not seriously hurt.

"Had his bed been over on the other side, which it was about three or four weeks ago, he would have been under all of this tree limb," Buzbee said, relieved that his losses were only material.

A combination of saturated soil and strong winds oveight knocked down trees throughout Cobb County long after the thunderstorms had passed.

In a Smya neighborhood, Howard Martin said he heard a thud this moing, but didn't venture out until daylight.

"I watched Glenn Bus last night until about 12 o'clock to see how bad it was going to be, " he said.

"Me and my wife went to the basement when the sirens went off."

When they emerged, they realized the thud they heard was a tree falling on a truck.

Luckily, no one there was hurt, either.