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<blockquote data-quote="pruman91" data-source="post: 1686675" data-attributes="member: 3916"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/in-a-kentucky-town-hit-by-a-tornado-anguish-worry-%e2%80%94-and-feeling-grateful-to-be-alive/ar-AARIXnu?ocid=mailsignout&li=BBnbfcL[/URL]</p><p></p><p>MAYFIELD, Ky. — Churches were reduced to rubble. The courthouse was wiped out. A building where the utility company parked its trucks had seemingly vaporized, taking the vehicles with it.</p><p>And the candle factory was nothing more than a spread of assorted debris. The only indication of what it once was: The scents of vanilla and lavender, along with aromas that conjured up springtime and fresh laundry — all from the chemicals used in the candles — were picked up by powerful winds.</p><p></p><p>“I don’t know how Mayfield will rebound,” Joe Crenshaw, 37, said as he stood along the perimeter of the factory on Saturday afternoon, hoping to help, somehow, with efforts to find survivors in the rubble.</p><p></p><p>Mayfield, a city of roughly 10,000 people perched in the western corner of the state, is a community in shock. One person after the next told harrowing accounts of hiding as the tornado ripped through the town, sounding like a freight train. Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky called it the worst tornado disaster in the state’s history. <strong><em>Of the 110 people working in the candle factory when the tornado hit, he said, just 40 have been rescued.</em></strong></p><p></p><p>-------------------------------------------------------</p><p></p><p>truly heartbreaking............................................</p><p></p><p></p><hr /></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pruman91, post: 1686675, member: 3916"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/in-a-kentucky-town-hit-by-a-tornado-anguish-worry-%e2%80%94-and-feeling-grateful-to-be-alive/ar-AARIXnu?ocid=mailsignout&li=BBnbfcL[/URL] MAYFIELD, Ky. — Churches were reduced to rubble. The courthouse was wiped out. A building where the utility company parked its trucks had seemingly vaporized, taking the vehicles with it. And the candle factory was nothing more than a spread of assorted debris. The only indication of what it once was: The scents of vanilla and lavender, along with aromas that conjured up springtime and fresh laundry — all from the chemicals used in the candles — were picked up by powerful winds. “I don’t know how Mayfield will rebound,” Joe Crenshaw, 37, said as he stood along the perimeter of the factory on Saturday afternoon, hoping to help, somehow, with efforts to find survivors in the rubble. Mayfield, a city of roughly 10,000 people perched in the western corner of the state, is a community in shock. One person after the next told harrowing accounts of hiding as the tornado ripped through the town, sounding like a freight train. Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky called it the worst tornado disaster in the state’s history. [B][I]Of the 110 people working in the candle factory when the tornado hit, he said, just 40 have been rescued.[/I][/B] ------------------------------------------------------- truly heartbreaking............................................ [HR][/HR] [/QUOTE]
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