‘Gone just like that’: Lightning destroys Gwinnett home, steals family’s memories

Melvin Wanniplayor was drifting in and out of sleep as a movie played in the background when he was jolted awake by his son’s screams.

“Dad! Dad! Dad!” he recalled the yells that came at 2 a.m. on May 21.

Then his 15-year-old son shouted, “Fire!”…

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