AUGUSTA, Ga. - Several neighborhoods throughout Richmond County were devastated after tornadoes cut a path through people's homes late Friday night and early Saturday morning.

One family narrowly escaped death when their home came crashing down on them.

Frankie Dunbar recalled the night she thought her daughter died.

"I didn't hear [my daughter] no more, so I said please don't take my child lord, take me," said Frankie.

The Dunbar family was at home in their Barton Chapel Hill neighborhood getting ready for bed when a tornado came down right on top of their house. It tore their roof off, threw it across the street and collapsed the walls of the house in on the family.

Dennis Dunbar's pregnant daughter was sleeping in her room when she was almost crushed under the weight of the house coming down on her.

"I've seen stuff like this on TV, but to actually be apart of something is totally different—to be asleep in that, no one survives that," said Dennis.

Miraculously, Dennis’s Daughter and wife escaped with only scratches. Hours after the incident, Keturah Dunbar was still shaken up over it.

"When I saw the ceiling coming down on me, I panicked and pushed everything off of me,” said Keturah. “I tried to open my door, but when I looked behind me, my wall was gone, my window was gone. I'm just blessed to be alive looking at it."

Over at the Amara Nursing Home, cleanup has begun after more than a hundred senior citizens were evacuated when the tornado passed over head.

The force of the tornado knocked down power lines, tore off roofs and flipped over heavy trucks like toys.

An enormous tree was uprooted by the strong winds and crashed in Blythe Blackwell’s yard, missing her bedroom by just a few feet.

"It sounded like a fright train coming down the road,” said Blackwell. “I was in my bedroom watching the news. I shut my window and got in the linen closet. I thought I was Dorothy with Todo fixing to fly away."

Despite the amount of destruction, neighbors say they're just glad no one was seriously hurt or worse, because unlike homes, lost lives can't just be rebuilt.