David Kral is described by his family as a fun loving man with a skill for storytelling.

Now his family is sharing Kral story after the intellectually disabled Laurel County native was severely injured during the weekend storms as a tornado destroyed his home.

Kentucky Edition caught up with the storm survivors niece, who talks about his long road to recovery.

My sister was a couple of miles down the road, and she was the first one to be able to get out to check on him, and she said when she got here that there was nothing left there.

There was just rubble and people crying and screaming.

She said that the neighbor had found my uncle about 80ft away from the trailer, next to my grandma's urn that was fully intact.

It was terrifying.

There's there's no way to describe it the way my uncle said it happened.

He remembered every detail.

He said that he was standing right by his bathroom door.

He said that it was storming, and all of a sudden it was a calm.

And he said, next thing you know, it started raining.

And then he heard a freight train as what he said, and he said, next thing he knew, he was slammed into a wall.

And then he blacked out from, I guess, hitting the debris.

He woke up and couldn't move, couldn't get up.

He started screaming for help and that's when the neighbor found him.

He has a broken neck at 67.

He's paralyzed from the waist down.

He can use his arms a little bit.

He can't really do anything with them right now.

But we have a GoFundMe to try to help my mom and uncle get a new home, try to get some accommodations for whatever he may need when he gets out of the hospital.

It's going to be a couple of months, so I'm hoping we can just rebuild something for him to come home to.

So that's what we're trying to do right now.

He is just the life of the party.

When he's in the room.

He has the coolest stories to tell you.

And now a really crazy one.

He's just he's so full of life and great.

He's grateful to be alive.

Just driving down the street, seeing what used to be.

You can't even recognize where my mom's house is.

I had to look for a while to find where it used to be, because nothing looks the same around here.

The neighbors that were here, everybody survived.

The guy in the very back had a baby.

And he clutched the baby when the tornado hit.

And he had a gash right here in his head.

But the baby was unscathed.

But everybody on this side was home.

That got hit, and they all survived it.

Every one of them over here, thank God.

I couldn't imagine what these people are going through it that lived through a tornado hitting their house.

It's just insane to me.

There's just so many people out here throwing food at people and and clothing and waters and thank God for them.

There's resources out there.

Just ask for help.

Let these people help you.

That's what they're here for.

They're here to help you through this.

Mr. Crowl is still recovering in the hospital.