It's not your typical sports story as it tells how Davis' father, Cedric Davis, saved the Jets rookie and his family during the May 22, 2011 Joplin Tornado.
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Cedric Davis, Isaiah’s father, looked out the front door of their house and saw the trees bending in a way he had never seen before and the sky turned black.
“He started yelling, ‘Get in the hallway, get in the hallway, get in the hallway,’ ” Isaiah Davis said.
Cedric grabbed the top mattress off of a bunk bed and threw it over Isaiah and his brother, McKinley, in the hallway.
“The ground, the walls, everything in the house started shaking,” Cedric Davis said Thursday.
“Luckily, a blessing, I went into survival mode.”
Davis’ mother, Brandi, stood by the kitchen window in shock and not moving.
Davis’ mother, Brandi, stood by the kitchen window in shock and not moving.
Cedric screamed her name and finally she snapped out of it.
“She ran through the living room and dived under with my two dogs that were outside as the tornado started to tear the house apart,” Isaiah Davis said.
The family stayed under the mattress, which was wedged perfectly between two walls, for three to four minutes as destruction surrounded them.
“My dad was praying and screaming that if it took anybody, it would take him and not us,” Davis said.
They remained under the mattress for several minutes until they knew the tornado was not coming back.
Cedric cleared debris off the mattress and moved a tree that had fallen on it.
When they emerged, they saw just a few walls of their home remaining. There was total destruction around them.
Cedric’s quick thinking saved the Davis family.
Like listening to peoples different encounters of the tornado
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