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Hits and can we survive it. i was saying sometimes can't survive an ef-4 or ef-5 unless you are underground in a tornado shelter. in the interior room, it may not be enough. >> viewers are familiar with hurricane scales, but tornado scales are different. tornadoes pack a lot of energy unlike hurricanes. you see the pattern of the storm moving and on the right side of the strong wall, you are okay other than flooding. tornadoes are a different situation. you know a tornado is coming by virtue of the environmental circumstances being appropriate. you don't know where it is coming from and where ...

How devastating it was? >> the sheer length of the storm itself but also probably being an ef-4 or ef-5 for a time in its path and this town being directly in its path. it wasn't a glancing blow, it went right through the middle. this is the candle factory back in january and february and this is what it was when this company flew over the top of it. there's very little left of anything. down here on the bottom, all the cars that were in the parking lot because they were working the double shift or triple shift because it's christmas. now there's more weather down through georgia, maybe even n...

Mind. it was a town that was wiped out from an ef-5 tornado, population was roughly a thousand people or so and the town was gone and they rebuilt it green and there are stories about that seeing these pictures from this town of mayfield, kentucky, it just makes you wonder how they're going to rebuild and how they're going to survive. sometimes we talk about this like mexico, florida when michael made landfall as a category 5 hurricane there and we were just saying how does this town ever rebuild? will the town exist after this? this is the type of narrative we're going to have out of mayfield...

How much the trees were ripped apart. if there's only a foundation left. that's when we know we were dealing with an ef-5 tornado, which is the highest category. and look at the white van just sitting in the middle of that wreckage, whatever this building or structure was. you know, lynn, i'm just going to go out and say this is mayfield, kentucky. my guess is this was that candle factory, if they're saying the structure collapsed and there was people in it. it was 10:00 p.m. at night. obviously we don't know the details of this business, you know, how many workers were there on a friday night...

I think that's a first thing we're looking at. the other thing is these were nighttime tornados. even when we talk about the joplin tornados, the f-5 that hit in missouri, those occurred during the day when people were outside, able to see the storms, deal with it. at night, you can't see the storms, and as we saw, with, you know, late-night workers, people at home, these tornados were just devastating. it is a loss of life scenario. i mean, particularly when the weather service puts out a tornado emergency, that means is tornado is likely to be life-threatening and imminent and threatening yo...