What devastation and destruction. People were in the homes and the tornada just swept away their homes while still in them. I can't get my head around that. And right before Christmas too. Let's you know just how small we all really are.
Yes, it really caught a lot of folks off guard. I was watching an
interview last night. I think it was filmed around Dawson Springs. A guy
was talking about how he and a friend (or brother) only had a few seconds
to take cover. He managed to get halfway under something heavy before it
hit, while the other guy only had time to drop flat to the floor. The
building they were in was mostly leveled, but they both somehow made it.
The guy was interviewed late the next day. You could tell he was still
shocked by what had happened around him.
Sirens were going off here, and I heard that they were going off in
Mayfield. I am not sure about some of the towns in between. It hit
Mayfield late in the evening, but some of the other towns along the path
were hit overnight. The Bowling Green tornado was also overnight. It did catch a lot of folks asleep. If you were not near a siren, and with the
cell coverage going down in many areas, some folks in the towns it hit
later probably didn't have much warning.
We have tornados, usually each year, and some even at this time of year.
But the two biggest ones we had this time were on the ground for a while,
and have left more death in their wake than we've seen before in our state.
I am not sure if it was on FIDO or another network, but there used to be a
BBS that ran out of Mayfield on one of the networks.
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