Let's hope Zack stays safe out there covering the tornados in Tennessee. His stories are stellar. Read them here and here: The saddest hillside in Gibson County was clogged with the remnants of a young family's life, blown away by Sunday night's deadly storm.
A mounted deer wedged under a fallen tree. A stuffed bear, still able to chirp, "Time for the bear, cha cha cha." A purse, glittery and multi-colored. Diaper bags. Children's sneakers.
"Hey, Mama," Ashley Austin yelled out from near a huge tree that had been peeled and filleted into some monstrous sculpture, "I found a video camera. You think it's got anything in it?"
Ashley and her mother, Tammy, spent two grim hours Monday foraging through what appeared to have been a thicket of woods behind the property that had belonged to Tammy's cousin, Brad, and his family.
Maybe that video camera held images of 5-year-old Tyce Taylor's first T-Ball game, played just Friday.
Maybe it showed his father, 28-year-old Brad, hoisting his latest trophy animal.
Or maybe it showed the whole family together in their big house -- 29-year-old Tanya and 3-year-old Kyle with Brad and little Tyce -- before a powerful tornado barreled onto the ridge and took their lives.
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