The Day the Sky Turned: One Year Later
A year after an EF3 tornado ripped through the Spanish Lakes Country Club community, Brandi Smith said she’s still learning how to live without her mom.
“It kind of brings it all back a little bit,” she said while sitting in her home in New York. “But I feel better than I did when we first started talking.”
Her mother, Debbie Kennedy, was one of six people killed on Oct. 9, 2024, when a powerful twister — one of 46 that formed ahead of Hurricane Milton — struck the Fort Pierce neighborhood with little warning…