Mom hurt saving children during tornado MARYSVILLE, Ind., March 5 (UPI) -- An Indiana mother caught in a tornado lost parts of both legs while saving her two children, shielding them from falling debris with her body, her husband said. Joe Decker, an employee at Silver Creek High School in Marysville, Ind., said Sunday he had texted his 36-year-old wife Friday to say weather radar indicated a tornado was headed right for their three-story, brick-and-stone house, The Indianapolis Star reported. Stephanie "just stopped texting me. She was on top of them," he said. Decker said his wife was hunkered down in the basement with their children, Dominic, 8, and Reese, 5, when a huge funnel cloud hit the house, collapsing debris on top of her and threatening to do the same to their daughter. "She just kind of grabbed her and turned," Joe Decker said. She doesn't remember anything after that. Dominic ran out into heavy hail, alerting neighbors who came and helped, the newspaper said. One neighbor, Clark County Sheriff's Deputy Brian Lovins, tried to stop Stephanie Decker's worst bleeding and transported her to a local hospital where she lost one leg above the knee and the other above the ankle, her husband said. The house is rubble but the Deckers are alive. "What I told her was, 'You're alive and you get to see your kids grow up,'" Joe Decker said. If you look in the basement, there's no way anybody should have lived, let alone two kids who don't have a scratch on them.