Deadly Tornadoes kills 100 in Kentucky and does catastrophic damage

Rescue workers  from the National Guards from six states Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missoroi,  Mississippi and Tennessee, are desperately searching for survivors scouring through the rubbles in Kentucky.  100-year-old Mayfield First United Methodist Church in Kentucky was destroyed in seconds by the tornado. Over hundred people have died in Kentucky including dozens in a candle factory, as the tornado ripped through it, and 14 deaths reported in four other states.

Thousands of power outages across the region about 77, 000 customers in Kentucky and 53, customers in Tennessee were without power as of Saturday evening.

10,000 people from Mayfield where most of the tornado’s destruction was centred,  as there were four tornadoes that touched down in the state on Friday night including one that stayed on the ground for 227 miles – 200 of them in Kentucky.

The tornadoes were part of a weather system that was wreaking havoc in many parts of the country causing substantial snowfall across parts of the upper Midwest and western Great Lakes.

In Mayfield a fire station and the city hall were flattened. Four deaths were confirmed in Tennessee while two people killed in Arkansas, a 94-year-old died and five people were injured when a tornado demolished the Monette Manor Nursing home after it partially collapsed,  a person also killed at a Dollar General Store in Leachville, Ark,one death was confirmed in Missouri.

The storms with dark and immense funnel clouds that roared across the nightime landscape obliterated homes, churches and an Amazon warehouse, set buildings on fire and knocked a train with 28 empty rail cars from its tracks.

President Joe Biden said he would ask the Environmental Protection Agency to examine what role climate change might have played in the storms.

Thousands of people had their homes destroyed by 227-mile path, the longest a tornado had travelled along the ground in the US.