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For Clemson's Domonique Thomas, the rainbow after the storm is comforting

CLEMSON – There's a saying that after the storm comes the rainbow, and while the destruction from that storm will always live on, the rainbow makes each day after just a little bit better.

Walk-on turned scholarship running back Domonique Thomas suffered an immeasurable loss on March 25, 2021, when an EF-2 tornado in his hometown of Ohatchee, Alabama, took the lives of five people, including his mother, National Guard veteran Ebonique Thomas; grandfather, Willie Harris; and grandmother Barbara Harris.

But what followed was a rainbow brighter than he ever could have imagined.

Thomas began his college career at Union College (KY), but he always had aspirations of playing Division I football.