authorities are just now assessing the damage. 70 miles northeast of mayfield, in dawson springs, kentucky, total destruction in this part of town. homes destroyed. in marshall county, kentucky, along kentucky lake, home after home reduced to piles of wood. trees sheared off, cars thrown everywhere. the entire neighborhood gone. these men standing on a home, the top sliced off. tonight, kentucky s governor describing it this way. the worst tornado event in the history of our commonwealth. our state was hit by at least four tornadoes. thousands of homes are damaged, if not entirely destroyed. and it may be weeks before we have final counts on both deaths and levels of destruction. the governor choking up when discussing the ages of the victims. i know like the folks in
was. you can t get in the door. there is no door. there s no door. there s stairs but there s no door. we crawl in the window, the large window, which is where my daughter s room was. inside and outside her home, tiffany and her mom found complete destruction. i was standing actually in the road and i was trying to find her house. i was right in front of it. it was just total devastation to see everything gone. what swept away tiffany s house and so many others is as stunning to see as it is heartbreaking. trees sheared off, metal bent into hideous sculptures, and block after block suffering from nothing less than blunt force trauma. hang on, hang on, baby. everywhere in pleasant grove, there s the knowledge that this week marks a tipping point in their lives. before and after. sometimes just a few yards meant
overturned, vehicles turned upside down, whole houses that look like they literally exploded, it just tells you how powerful this system was. and, yes, it was in a concentrated area, around st. louis metropolitan area, and trees sheared off, power lines down, i saw the upper portion of a roof that looked as if it had been picked up and laid to rest on the ground. they re saying that homes were destroyed, but then right out in the yard there looked to be some play toys, children s toys, that seemed to be untouched. if go back just about a week ago, we saw three days of severe weather that broke out from oklahoma to jackson, mississippi, to near raleigh, north carolina, and into virginia. we had some 45-plus fatalities reported from those storms. and here we are easter weekend, another round of severe weather breaking out. i believe this is the church coming out of the st. louis