His daughter called him last week to tell him that Hurricane Helene had hit her town in rural Georgia.
He could hear the babies crying as the powerful storm hit their home.
Williams’ daughter, Kobe, and her two newborn sons were staying inside their mobile home in Thomson as the hurricane hit.
She had promised her father that she would shelter her babies inside the bathroom as the storm approached.
But, minutes after she made the call, she stopped answering their calls.
Her brothers tried to check on her later in the day, and they couldn’t tell their father what they saw.
A tree that had fallen on the roof crushed Kobe, and it also caused her to fall on top of her two infant sons. The three were later found dead.
The babies, who were born on August 20, were among the youngest victims of a storm that ravaged various areas in the Southeast, killing at least 200 people in five states.
Some of the other young victims include a girl and a boy from Georgia who were 4 and 7 years old.
In Augusta, which is 30 miles away from his daughter’s home in Thomson, Williams’ neighborhood was littered with fallen trees and power lines. The debris blocked the roads and left him trapped for a whole day.
Kobe, who was a single mother nursing her newborns, had reportedly told her relatives that it would be impossible for her to leave them behind when the hurricane hit.
Her other children, who live in different areas of Georgia, are still without power. Some of them went to Atlanta while others went to Augusta to visit their father.
Their bodies have been released by the coroner, and they’re waiting for the roads to be cleared so they can arrange a funeral. Kobe was described by her father as a smart and social young woman.