A woman whose home was ripped from the ground and tossed into Highway A1A by a tornado said a mattress saved her life after winds lifted her into the air as she clutched her pets, according to Local 6 News.
One of several tornadoes spawned from Hurricane Wilma Monday hit a neighborhood in Floridana Beach, Fla.
Dawn Lindsay was clutching her two pets inside her home when winds ripped the second floor from the structure and tossed it into A1A.
Lindsay and her pets were then pulled out of her home by the winds and dropped in another part of her home.
"Dawn was on her bed watching the news of the impending storm in her rental home when out of no where she was flipped in the air, animals and all," Local 6 reporter Donald Forbes said.
She said she a mattress landed on her and acted like a shield from the flying debris. She said the mattress saved her life.
"I feel it is a miracle and that there is a purpose for me to do something with my life," Dawn Lindsay. "I'll never look at things the same again."
The tornado ripped off Lindsay's second floor and flattened all of the walls in her home.
Lindsay said everything she owns was destroyed or lost in the tornado.
She said she is leaving Florida and moving to Connecticut after the latest hurricane to hit the state.
You know, I always thought that the old saying of hid in the tub with a matress on top of you was just something of a wive's tale. She's living proof that it isn't. However, it sucks for people with waterbeds.
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