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“It’s just God,” Cook told CNN on Friday.
Cook and her husband emerged from the tornado in a closet in their two-story home in Birmingham’s Eagle Point neighborhood. They could see the storm clouds above them as the roof gave way.
Cook said after the storm passed, she wanted to keep as many photos of her damaged home as possible.
Later, she noticed that the cross was still standing in her garden, and the purple fabric had not been blown away.
“He’s still there and my cross is still there because God was with all of these people and us,” Cook said.
She plans to replace the fabric with a white one on Easter Sunday.
“That’s what God means,” Cook said, pointing to the cross. “Lent is a painful time, but this Easter Sunday will be beautiful again.”
The National Weather Service said 23 tornadoes formed in the southeast from Thursday through Friday morning – one in Mississippi; 17 in Alabama; and five in Georgia.
The tornadoes killed at least five people in Calhoun County, Alabama, and one in Coweta County, Georgia, south of Atlanta.
A tornado caused extensive damage in Cook’s neighborhood, breaking down trees and reducing brick-walled houses to piles of rubble.
“We know that tornadoes indiscriminately damage some houses and property and not another,” CNN meteorologist Derek Van Dam said. “In this case, it appears that the tornado rose and fell several times before leaving the cross and scarf in place but destroying the roof of the neighboring house.”
The buzz of chainsaws could be heard in the neighborhood on Friday as people worked to clean up debris and spread blue tarps over damaged homes.
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