Video: Louisville Tornado Victim At Macon Hospital

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Louisville, Miss.[WCBI]-It was some of the most compelling images in the first minutes after a tornado ripped through Louisville and Winston County…volunteers scrambling to rescue an elderly woman and get her to medical attention carrying her on a table.

When the tornado hit Louisville on April 28th, Frances Hill got trapped in her home…a refrigerator fell on her while her house was mostly swept away. A WCBI photographer there minutes after the tornado hit caught the rescue as volunteers found her, got her on the table and hiked more than a half mile…She suffered broken bones, bruises, and cuts…she was treated at OCH in Starkville and now is at Noxubee County General Hospital for rehabilitation. The incident is still fresh on her mind, hearing neighbors all around calling for help.

“About a few minutes we heard some men out there talking. And everybody let out a big hoop and holla. And they said we got people up there waiting. Yeah, I knew how to holla,” said Frances Hill/Tornado & Hurricane Survivor.

“They put her on the back of a pickup truck. There were no ambulances remember. They lifted, those eight guys lifted that heavy table and my little mamma on the top,” said Micki Muir/Hill’s Daughter.

When Hill and her World War Two Army husband John’s Gulfport house was destroyed by Katrina, they thought Louisville would be a safer place to call home. That changed but Hill’s daughter says her mom has always been a courageous woman and will continue that way.

“My mother is determined. My mother is resilient, perseverance. Mixed with some impatience,” said Muir.

“They said we see you and we are going to get you out. I said well I’m not really not really scared. I wasn’t, I didn’t have sense enough to be scared right then,” said Hill.

And about the two disasters Hill has experienced…. She just smiles and calls it odd.

“Well I’ve lived 86 years I guess I’ll try for that many more I don’t know,” said Hill.

Hill who still has a lot of aches and pains from her ordeal, has her good days and her bad days, but is thankful to be alive.