“The Wire” actor Tray Chaney has revealed that his home in Georgia was destroyed by a twister Thursday — together with his 18-year-old son in intensive care after being thrown 300 ft out of his room.
“This s–t ain’t no movie,” Chaney, who performed Malik “Poot” Carr on the famed HBO collection, advised followers in an Instagram video as he stood in entrance of the crumpled wreckage of his house in Locust Grove.
Chaney mentioned he was knocked unconscious by the twister that hit round 3 p.m. Thursday, leaving him “with my face in the mud and parts of my house on top of me.”
“I woke up in a panic … screaming my son’s name out,” he mentioned of 18-year-old Malachi Chaney.
“My son was thrown 300 feet out of his room,” he mentioned, detailing how neighbors helped him discover the teenager in “the woods behind my house.”
“I lost my house, I lost everything in it,” the actor mentioned.
“Thank god I’m still living. I survived a tornado. And my son, he survived,” he mentioned as he ready to see Malachi within the ICU with a number of damaged ribs and a fractured bone in his face.
“Malachi is in this hospital fighting and me and my wife have not and will not leave his side,” he wrote.
The actor says he skilled vomiting and now has a “big knot” on his head from the storm’s influence.
The Chaney household has since obtained an outpouring of assist from pals and followers on social media.
The Nationwide Climate Service is investigating the twister’s path, which reportedly struck only a half-mile from the observe of one other tornado in April, WSBTV reported.
