'God's hand' helped local resident day of tornado

File / The Herald

The tornado on Jan. 19, 2019 destroyed structures in Wetumpka. Wetumpka resident Edwin Sanford's home was destroyed but his family is close to feeling the way life was before, he said.

Edwin Sanford said he would not be alive if he remained at home for four more minutes on Jan. 19, 2019.

“If I had waited at my house just a few more minutes and heard the warning, I could not have made it from my house to the church,” Sanford said. “(The tornado) would have got me.”