(CNN) Jessica Chandler and her four children weren't home when a tornado tore through their Alabama neighborhood on Sunday and destroyed their house.

She was at a grocery store buying baby formula for her youngest child, a 4-month-old, and missed the onslaught "by minutes."

An aerial view of her home before and after the storm shows the devastation.

Her house is "completely gone," Chandler told CNN's "New Day" on Tuesday. "Our house is not there anymore. It's far away from where it used to be.

"Thank God I was not there with my children," she said. "I don't think there's one chance me and my kids would have survived that."

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