They Held Hands Until the Tornado Tore Them Apart — Now This Couple Is Clinging to Life
When a deadly tornado ripped through Laurel County, Kentucky, it destroyed more than homes. For Paul and Gail Cline, both in their 60s, the storm shattered their world in the most horrific way imaginable.
The couple was holding onto each other in their bedroom as the twister hit — and held on so tightly that when the storm tore through their home, it tore off their opposite arms.
“I see an arm down the hallway,” Gail told her niece, not realizing it was her own.
Despite the trauma, Paul and Gail survived — barely. Gail is on life support, with shattered ribs and punctured lungs. Paul, who suffers from dementia, still doesn’t understand the full horror of what happened.
Their home — a place filled with generations of family memories — is now rubble. Only haunting remnants remain, like a robe hanging untouched in their bedroom. But even more heart-wrenching is the sight of their loyal dog, Sadie, found days later curled up in the wreckage — waiting.
A GoFundMe launched by family members is helping raise money for their long road to recovery, but nothing can erase what they’ve lost.
What remains, though, is unshakable: the love that kept them together — even when the storm tried to tear them apart.
