FYI, drrich2 and family are OK

[Akimbo]

I got a message that @drrich2 and family in southwest Kentucky are fine. The tornados did a lot of damage to a nearby town causing Internet bandwidth problems, so I offered to pass this message along. Condolences to all the people who lost family, friends, homes, and livelihoods.

 

[RIHappyDiver]

Thank you for this update, I’m glad to hear that they are ok. I had no idea that this was even happening.

 

[Akimbo]

Tornados are unusually widespread:

Night of devastating tornadoes likely kills more than 100 in Kentucky

At least 100 people were feared dead in Kentucky after a swarm of tornadoes tore a 200-mile path through the U.S. Midwest and South, demolishing homes, levelling businesses and setting off a scramble to find survivors beneath the rubble, officials said Saturday.

www.reuters.com

 

[Divin'Papaw]

So glad to hear this! It was an awful storm. Devastating destruction in some areas. We have family in western IL near where the Amazon Watehouse partially collapsed with multiple fatalities. They are fine but said the storm was very bad.

 

[drrich2]

Thankfully Hopkinsville was largely spared. This morning I was looking on Facebook at photos of nearby Dawson Springs, which looks leveled. Pembroke to the south of us got hit hard, I'm told. I'm still hot spotting my phone's Internet service to the desktop computer off and on because the cable Internet service is still down.

Seems whether you live in the U.S. there's some severe weather threat. Florida and the east coast, hurricanes. California seems to be on fire all the time these days, never mind the earthquake threat. Blizzards up north. Tornados here.

 

[KathyV]

Thankfully Hopkinsville was largely spared. This morning I was looking on Facebook at photos of nearby Dawson Springs, which looks leveled. Pembroke to the south of us got hit hard, I'm told. I'm still hot spotting my phone's Internet service to the desktop computer off and on because the cable Internet service is still down.

Seems whether you live in the U.S. there's some severe weather threat. Florida and the east coast, hurricanes. California seems to be on fire all the time these days, never mind the earthquake threat. Blizzards up north. Tornados here.

It was a terrible storm, I am in northern Illinois and we were watching it but we got lucky - it stayed south of us. So glad to hear that your family and home are okay.

 

[Sam Miller III]

@drrich2
Certainly, relived that you and yours are safe and sound. When I was viewing the news, I was questioning if there was collateral damage in Paducah -Just how close -- In miles --was the storm from your home ?
SDM. III

 

[Akimbo]

I was questioning if there was collateral damage in Paducah -Just how close -- In miles --was the storm from your home ?

Not sure about the damage but it looks like about 1:15 on I24, 72 miles.

Paducah to Hopkinsville

www.google.com

 

[drrich2]

Just how close -- In miles --was the storm from your home ?

The 2 places close to us that got hit hard were Dawson Springs (and nearby Princeton) and Pembroke. A woman I used to work with had an apartment in Dawson Springs that got destroyed; she's staying with a daughter now.

Dawson Springs is about 20 or so miles away, as the crow flies. Pembroke is about 11 miles away.

We had a lot of lightning flashes before I went to bed, and I heard thunder during the night. We slept through it.

Paducah's farther from us (to the northwest); The Paducah Sun has coverage; looks like they're focused on damage at other places, like Dawson Springs and Mayfield, so I'm guessing Paducah didn't get much harm.

Tornados are a regional hazard here; seems like once or twice in the Spring, our house gets buffeted by winds that spook us a bit.