Monkey's Magical Treehouse of Awesomeness

[galled]

That's so terrible! Thoughts and prayers for everyone.

[MonkeyGirl18]

This is a before and after of a candle factory in the town hit the worst.

It's right outside of downtown.

The tornado touched ground for over 200 miles, so you can imagine from this the rest of the town.

[Lemon Cheesecake]

That's horrifying! I can't wrap my mind around it. I had no idea a tornado could travel so far! That's like a 3 hour drive! So devastating!! That poor town and its people!

i am so glad you and your family are ok!

[npixelz]

I heard about the tornado as well. We've gotten tornado warnings over here in the past, and we just hid in our basement. When I heard about many people dying I was shocked because usually even the damage of the tornados we've heard of didn't seem that extreme

[MonkeyGirl18]

To put it into perspective how catastrophically bad this tornado was, considered to be the worst in Kentucky history....

The deadliest tornado, before this current one, was March 27, 1890 with 76 dead.

The most catastrophic before was April 3-4, 1974, where 148 tornadoes touched down in the Midwest and South, killing 63 people in Kentucky.

Then the most recent, besides this year's tornado, severe tornado was on March 2, 2012.
One town had a tornado travelling for 86 miles leaving 6 people killed.
Another town had a tornado travel 49 miles with 2 people killed.

THIS tornado had TOUCHED DOWN, not just travelled, 229 miles! Estimated at least 100 people dead. They're still going through the wreckage and we won't get a final count til some time passes, but this was the WORST in Ky history. Wiped the whole town away, pretty much.

To add, while the basement is the safest place, you can see in footage buildings (possibly houses) that were ripped off of their foundations. For any regular tornado that won't do so much damage, the basement is safe, but this tornado showed no mercy. There wasn't much some of these people could do.

The abnormally warm weather created perfect conditions for a storm this bad.

[galled]

Incredibly frightening. You're in KY, right? I alway think Kansas when I think twisters, but they're really in a lot of states. But they're unique to north America tho I think.

[MonkeyGirl18]

Yeah, Kentucky. Not exactly tornado alley lol.

Kansas, Colorado, and other states in tornado alley are flat and so are prone to tornadoes, but any state can get them. Looking at pics of the part of Ky that got hit the worst, they seemed to be pretty flat, along with the temperatures that led to the storms, they were really unfortunate. There didn't seem to be hills that could possibly lessen the tornado.

[MonkeyGirl18]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUxbwYcbses

[npixelz]

Did it come without warning?

[Bassy]

I've seen a tornado watch Friday night when I was getting off work. I knew the storms were gonna get bad so I hoped I get off work before it really hit. I think there was more warning for western KY. We didn't get sirens, unless I slept through it because I was off work and deadass tired. Apparently, sirens went off a few counties by so I thought we'd get them too lol.

[MonkeyGirl18]

According to the mayor of that town, they only got up to an hour's warning.

[MonkeyGirl18]

I swear, if my insurance company doesn't call to get an agent down to look at my car to give an estimate before my dental appointment tomorrow, I'm gonna scream!

I say before because my appointment, I'm getting extractions done and I'll be under anesthesia.

[npixelz]

I see

I wish you luck

[MonkeyGirl18]

They called me at an unexpected time.... like 8pm lol

They're coming to look at my car tomorrow. I might call off because I got a drs note that excuses me for today and tomorrow sooo I won't get pointed and I can go out and start getting my vehicle ready to be repaired. Hopefully I can get it done before the new year, but if not, oh well.

[npixelz]

Lol weird

I'd say take it off, yeah