
Cleanup and Damage Assessment Continues after 11 Tornadoes Hit Kentucky
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Cleanup and damage assessment continues after 11 tornadoes hit Kentucky.
The National Weather Service continues to survey the damage from Tuesday's severe storms that spawned 11 confirmed tornadoes in Kentucky. Of the 11, two were EF-2 tornadoes. The one that struck the city of Prospect, in Jefferson County, left behind damage one veteran of the National Weather Service says he's never seen before.
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Cleanup and Damage Assessment Continues after 11 Tornadoes Hit Kentucky
Clip: Season 2 Episode 222 | 3m 9sVideo has Closed Captions
The National Weather Service continues to survey the damage from Tuesday's severe storms that spawned 11 confirmed tornadoes in Kentucky. Of the 11, two were EF-2 tornadoes. The one that struck the city of Prospect, in Jefferson County, left behind damage one veteran of the National Weather Service says he's never seen before.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipThe National Weather Service continues to survey the damage from Tuesday's severe storms that spawned 11 confirmed tornadoes in Kentucky.
Of the 11, two were F-2 tornadoes.
One hit Boyd County.
The other struck the City of Prospect, where one veteran of the National Weather Service says it left behind damage like he's never seen before.
We had fuel for the storms, instability.
It got warm, kind of humid ride, wind, sheer winds turning with height in the atmosphere.
All the bad things that you look for in tornadoes, there's people have lost lots of property, trees and flipped in their house and two by fours, two walls.
And and it's very traumatic.
These events change your whole life.
We heard glass breaking.
We heard some thumping.
We thought, oh, something's fallen on the roof.
When we came out of here, we saw no roof.
We saw these trees down from the house, gone, all of the pergola, the backyard torn up.
So it was pretty, pretty amazing, really, when you think about it.
And it was a direct hit.
I mean, we knew how it was.
A couple of houses around here were hit, but not nearly like this.
We just took the full blow.
I think we had stepped out for a little break in Saint Augustine on Monday morning, bright and early, and got the news Monday afternoon that there's been tornadoes and planes come through our neighborhood.
We are so blessed that our house is not near to damage as some of these others are.
Most of this is just tree damage for us, but we are so lucky to have not to have as much damage as some of our neighbors do.
They just kind of tossed everything this way.
The tornado came up from behind there.
Stuff was just absolutely scattered everywhere.
And I mean, the crazy part of it is just with all the devastation and everything and, you know, everything laying around back here, the folks next door have a hot tub that's in the backyard.
The cover still snapped on them, fully intact.
So, I mean, just how directional.
And I mean, it just kind of takes the path where it wants to take.
I've seen some weird impalement.
There's a home in the Brook Brookhouse subdivision, and Jeffersonville that has I've seen two by fours in the sides of buildings, in garages.
This is at the top and the apex of the house.
I've never seen that before.
Ever.
And they were not in the path of the tornado.
It was debris that came and hit their house.
It's just crazy because you don't see an exact path.
It just kind of got bumped around everywhere, I suppose.
I mean, it's Mother Nature's mean when she wants to be.
Governor Beshear is urging everyone who suffered storm damage to take pictures and report it to County Emergency management officials.
He said even if you don't think you'll need FEMA's help, your neighbors might.
And reporting the damage could help the state reach FEMA's funding threshold.
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