HENRY COUNTY, Ga. — Less than a week after an EF-2 tornado ripped a teen from the second floor of his family’s home in Locust Grove, he is awake, talking — and took his first step with the help of a physical therapy team at Grady Hospital.

Malachi Chaney remains in the Intensive Care Unit but his dad, Tray Chaney, said his son is now considered stable and making “remarkable progress.”

“He still doesn’t even know how he was hurt,” said Tray Chaney, who’s been at his son’s bedside along with his wife since being released from the hospital himself. “But, he stood toe to toe with a tornado — and survived.”

The father and son were inside their home on Fresh Laurel Lane when the EF-2 tornado struck on May 29. The National Weather Service said wind speeds hit 135mph. The storm leveled the fami

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