There is a state of emergency in Kentucky after Friday.

Severe weather brought damage, destruction and power outages.

Five Kentuckians were killed in the storms.

Our Laura Rogers takes a look at the impact of high winds which demolished property all across south central Kentucky.

The wind was just terrible and it was a big tree that's been here forever.

Tracey Lacey has lived at Countryside Village Mobile Home Park in Bowling Green for eight years.

One of my neighbors come to my workplace and told me that my home had been hit hard.

So I left work and this is what I find.

Not every million years I thought I'd come home to not having a home.

Lacey, who lives here with her two year old grandson, now forced to find another place to stay.

I can't get past the kitchen because it's collapsed.

And it's uncertain what she'll be able to salvage.

I don't think any of my furniture is coming out.

Lot of barn roofs here in the local area that's got sheets blow it off.

Friday's damaging winds also affecting Kentucky farmers like Paul Dennison.

The biggest thing, I guess, is we lost this greenhouse.

It just pushed it over and bend all the bows and just totally ruined it.

Denison's family farm also operates a roadside market.

Seven months out of the year, he estimates up to $40,000 in damage.

Could probably couldn't happen at a worse time other than it being full of flowers.

That Kentucky maisonette confirms winds were recorded at higher than 70 miles per hour across Kentucky on Friday.

That's approaching hurricane strength and unlike any Denison has witnessed before.

I soon be 69 years old and I've never seen a gust of wind as severe as this was without it being involved in a big thunderstorm of some kind.

Though straight line winds toppling trees and leaving hundreds of thousands without power, utility crews working around the clock to get it restored, the damage widespread.

I know of three barns that demolished there on the ground and probably within two or three miles of here.

Cleanup and repairs will likely take months.

Heading into the spring season, that's time those in the farming community don't always have.

We've got to hustle now.

I mean, just getting up easy time of the year for us here on our farm, and I guess it is most all fine.

Busy indeed, as the farm includes a tobacco crop, livestock and fruits and vegetables.

We're just going to have to start all over and start start from the ground and go up.

Just one of those things, you know, I look at it like it can always be worse.

Lacy also starting over with new living arrangements.

She says in spite of the circumstances, she is grateful.

I can feel a lot more thankful for everything you got because I made it through.

For Kentucky Edition, I'm Laura Rogers.

Thank you, Laura.

Friday's severe weather also included tornadoes and historic flooding.

And EF-2 tornado touched down in McCracken County's Fremont community and an EF-1 near Hanover, Indiana.

A large area of north and western Kentucky saw more than three inches of rain within 24 hours.

Here are some of the damage in central Kentucky, including a flipped airplane on top of another airplane at the Georgetown Scott County Airport.

There was also damage at Ashland, the Henry Clay estate in Lexington.

Plus, downed power lines and traffic lights throughout the area, including Pulaski and Montgomery counties.

Kentucky Utilities has a staging area at the Kentucky Horse Park in Fayette County.

We asked Daniel Lowery of KU how this power outage compares to other outages in the past.

This windstorm that hit us on Friday is now the third most significant outage event that we've had on our system in the last 20 years.

So this is a historic event and it ranks up there with the ice storm in 2009 and Hurricane Ike in 2008.

So it ranks up there with those really big storms and big outage events that we've had for LG and KU Lowery says KU hopes to have all power back by Wednesday at 11 p.m. Eastern Time.