A woman in Indiana lost part of both of her legs as she shielded her children from two tornadoes that slammed into their home. Stephanie Decker was at home Friday when her husband texted her that a tornado was hurtling directly toward their three-story home in Henryville, Indiana. Just minutes before the tornado swept through, Decker and her young son and daughter huddled in the basement. She covered them with a blanket to try to shield them from debris. "I was reaching around, holding them and trying to keep everything away from them so it wouldn't hit 'em," Stephanie Decker told CNN affiliate WLKY. The wreckage broke seven of her ribs and almost completely severed both of her legs. "I had two steel beams on my legs, and I couldn't move. I was stuck," she told WLKY. Then, another storm came roaring through. She again covered her children the best she could, taking the brunt of the debris as her home collapsed around her. Joe Decker said his wife relayed some of the horror on an iPad, because when he first saw her, she was on a ventilator and unable to speak, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal. As the storm rolled through, Stephanie Decker told her husband, she turned and saw a large piece of debris begin to collapse. She pulled her daughter away just before it came crumbling down, according to the newspaper. "She just kind of grabbed her and turned," Joe Decker told the Courier Journal. "She doesn't remember anything after that." "Everything started hitting my back. Beams, pillars, furniture. Everything was just slamming into my back. But I had my children in the blanket, and I was on top of them, and I was reaching around holding them," Stephanie Decker told CNN affiliate WTHR. "And they are screaming, 'Mommy, I can't live without you! I don't want to die! Please don't let me die!' And I said, 'You're not going to die. We're going to make it.' " The storm passed, and Decker looked around to see her home was gone. "(I) looked at my leg and realized either it was cut off or it was barely attached," she told WTHR. "I took my phone, and I made a video to my husband, telling him that I love him." She wasn't sure whether she would survive or how they might escape since they were trapped by the weight of their home. Her 8-year-old son was able to climb out of the debris, run through the remaining hail and search for help. Her neighbors, including Brian Lovins, a Clark County sheriff’s officer, came to their rescue, though their homes were being torn apart at the same time. Lovins was able to use a tourniquet to stanch the bleeding until an ambulance could take her to a hospital. The children walked away without a scratch. Despite the loss of part of Stephanie Decker's legs, her husband said, he tried to tell his wife the fact that everyone lived is a miracle in itself. “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.”