{"id":693,"date":"2026-09-19T14:18:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T14:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/?p=693"},"modified":"2026-09-19T14:18:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T14:18:04","slug":"she-became-her-babys-shield-when-the-storm-turned-deadly-%f0%9f%98%a2%e2%9d%a4%ef%b8%8f-what-happened-next-is-unforgettable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"She became her baby\u2019s shield when the storm turned deadly. \ud83d\ude22\u2764\ufe0f What happened next is unforgettable."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In October 2018, 23-year-old Fiona Simpson was driving along Queensland\u2019s D\u2019Aguilar Highway with her 4-month-old daughter, Clara, and her 78-year-old grandmother when they were caught in a powerful supercell storm.\u00a0<span class=\"html-span xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x1hl2dhg x16tdsg8 x1vvkbs x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xat24cr xm2jcoa x1mpyi22 xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"xz74otr x15mokao x1ga7v0g x16uus16 xbiv7yw\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t91\/1\/16\/1f625.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude25\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>The hail became so large that the car\u2019s windows began breaking.\u00a0<span class=\"html-span xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x1hl2dhg x16tdsg8 x1vvkbs x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xat24cr xm2jcoa x1mpyi22 xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"xz74otr x15mokao x1ga7v0g x16uus16 xbiv7yw\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tad\/1\/16\/1f632.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude32\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>With her baby suddenly exposed, Fiona immediately climbed into the back seat and covered Clara with her own body, putting herself between her daughter and the falling hail.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>For those frightening moments, she became her baby\u2019s shield.\u00a0<span class=\"html-span xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x1hl2dhg x16tdsg8 x1vvkbs x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xat24cr xm2jcoa x1mpyi22 xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"xz74otr x15mokao x1ga7v0g x16uus16 xbiv7yw\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t73\/1\/16\/1f979.png\" alt=\"\ud83e\udd79\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><span class=\"html-span xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x1hl2dhg x16tdsg8 x1vvkbs x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xat24cr xm2jcoa x1mpyi22 xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"xz74otr x15mokao x1ga7v0g x16uus16 xbiv7yw\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t80\/1\/16\/1f64f.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude4f\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>Fiona was left with heavy bruising across her body, while her grandmother was also hurt during the storm. But Clara escaped with only minor bumps.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>What makes the story even more powerful is that Fiona later described her actions as something a mother would naturally do.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>She said she would do it again because protecting her daughter came first.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>Her bravery was later recognized publicly, with Queensland\u2019s premier announcing that Fiona would be recommended for a bravery award.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>She didn\u2019t have superpowers.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>She was simply a mother who saw her baby needed protection\u2014and stepped up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October 2018, 23-year-old Fiona Simpson was driving along Queensland\u2019s D\u2019Aguilar Highway with her 4-month-old daughter, Clara, and her 78-year-old grandmother when they were caught in a powerful supercell storm.\u00a0The hail became so large that the car\u2019s windows began breaking.\u00a0With her baby suddenly exposed, Fiona immediately climbed into the back seat and covered Clara with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}