ALABAMA – About two weeks ago, a tornado killed five people in Calhoun County, Alabama. Just a couple of days later, a 7-year-old boy in Calhoun, Georgia found something that belonged to one of the people who died.
Cole Weaver found an Alabama driver’s license. The tornado blew it 80 miles into his backyard.
“I was thinking this is so crazy we found this,” Cole Weaver said.
Cole said he was in his backyard playing baseball with his dad. When he went to grab one of the bases, he saw something in the grass.
“It was right in the corner of it,” Cole Weaver said.
He picked it up and it was an Alabama driver’s license.
“I was a little confused, I mean an ID?” Cole’s father, Nathan Weaver said.
“I gave the license to him and then he looked it up,” Cole Weaver said.
It belongs to 68-year-old Barbara Harris who died in the tornado, along with two of her family members. Latashia Harris-Ramos lost her sister, mother, and father.
“My dad was funny and outgoing, my mom was kind of quiet, more serious type, my sister could be any of it,” Harris-Ramos said.
The National Weather Service in Birmingham said the tornado was at least an EF-2.
“They’re stronger than I thought,” Cole Weaver said.
“For it to travel that far in the air just gives you an idea of what’s going on way up there versus what he sees and then it makes you think about just how strong something can be to carry something of that weight so far,” Nathan Weaver said.
They said there are a lot of coincidences with this license.
“My papa Randy’s name is Harris, too,” Cole Weaver said.
“They live in Calhoun County, we live in Calhoun, Georgia, my last name is Weaver and there’s a town in Calhoun County that’s Weaver,” Nathan Weaver said.
Weaver said maybe there’s a message hidden in all of this. He said he hopes to give the ID back to the family if they want it.
