It’s honestly hard to wrap your head around this kind of devastation. It doesn’t look like Earth.
2. People woke up to a completely unrecognizable world.
3. Tornadoes with winds over 150+ MPH came through overnight. One of the hardest states hit was Kentucky.
🌪️🌪️INCREDIBLE STRENGTH! Here are the latest EF ratings for the 2 most impactful #tornadoes that ravaged western #Kentucky.📺Join me for latest on News 5 at 10pm (MeTV) & 11pm on WLWT Ch. 5. @wlwt #Mayfield #BowlingGreen #tornado #QuadStateTornado @KevinWLWT @RandiRicoWLWT
4. To show how strong that is, all that’s left standing from this building is a bookcase.
All that’s left standing is their bookcase with almost every book intact. 💔 📚🙏🏻 #Mayfield
6. In some places all that’s left are concrete slabs.
As satellite data comes in from Kentucky, I am more and left in awe at the power of the Mayfield tornado – cycloidal markings, slab after slab of demolished homes, tractor trailers in the middle of dense woods from who knows where… #kywx
7. One of the only ways to see the extent of the damage has been through drones, the only recognizable thing in this photo is the road.
8. Otherwise it’s just a slew of debris, this appears to be a parking lot or a car dealership:
9. It’s hard to wrap your head around because it looks so unfamiliar.
10. Cinderblocks scattered about like they weigh nothing.
11. Cars impaled with 2x4s.
12. That’s a piece of concrete embedded in a fence.
13. The winds were so strong that it de-barked trees.
15. Trucks scattered around like toys.
16. Phone poles snapped in half.
17. A ceiling fan deflated.
18. Debris on debris.
19. That’s a tree wrapped in metal sheets presumably from a building.
20. Houses barely hanging on.
21. Walls and ceilings torn off.
22. A train derailed, tossed off the tracks.
23. Just piles and piles of anything and everything.
24. That’s an SUV engine randomly in the middle of a field, seemingly torn out of the car.
25. Trees snapped like twigs.
The trees in the woods around Finley in Taylor County, Kentucky, just south of me, were snapped like twigs last night from a tornado that touched down. @MarcWeinbergWX @WxStrong
26. Look how big that one is:
27. Mailboxes strewn about.
28. Mail trucks too.
29. That’s a church.
30. And that’s a liquor store trying to salvage any unbroken bottles.
31. That’s a boat, just sitting there.
32. A ripped up hot tub on the side of the road.
33. School buses tossed around.
34. Trailers impaled by trees.
35. The satellite shots are chilling. This is the before:
36. And this is the after:
37. Just complete devastation.
38. But as we go into a new week, rebuilding has already begun.
The sun is rising over southern Kentucky this morning…a beautiful start to the day which makes it even hard to process the devastation of the tornadoes below from the weekend. #tornado #Kentucky #KYwx @NC5
42. There’s some hope in all this devastation.
This was the line to donate supplies today in Bowling Green. The love that the people of Kentucky have for one another will never stop inspiring me.
