Georgia father Obie Lee Williams spent every morning looking forward to a daily phone call from his daughter. But their last conversation was fraught with fear as Kobe Williams, 27, told her father that she and her newborn twins were hunkering down alone at their trailer home in Thomson as Hurricane Helene ripped through the southeast.
Before hanging up to check on his other kids, he urged her to shelter in the bathroom with her month-old babies until the storm passed. Minutes later, she was no longer answering her family’s calls.
One of her brothers dodged fallen trees and downed power lines to check on her later that day, and he could barely bear to tell his father what he saw….