![]() It's not gonna be a good day." The aftermath of the tornado You have that gut feeling like, "This is not good. ![]() Pat Spoden: And, I've been doin' this for 34 years. The 73-degree day his neighbors enjoyed made his stomach churn. Hours before the storm, Pat Spoden was already worried. It was big, it was persistent, and it wasn't gonna stop. Seems likely, had they stayed, they would have been among at least 90 dead. Shawn Rickard: I guess the good lord told us to leave and we left. Shawn Rickard: It sounded like ten trains on a track, coming towards you full speed. On the Rickard farm, in western Kentucky, they burn what they can't save from the two-story brick home that seemed unshakable on that foundation down there on the right and the garage by its side. One meteorologist we talked with called that tornado, "the beast."Īll that rises from a levelled landscape are bonfires of memories. The storm threw down one twister that cut a path of destruction of more than 165 miles. The answers aren't clear, but we do know what we saw is rare. We spent the last several days in Kentucky, where it was still strangely warm and questions of climate change are being asked. Starting the night of December 10, at least 59 twisters carved through ten states -a swarm you wouldn't expect two weeks before winter. The devastation is so severe across such an expanse that we still don't know the toll of the Southern and Midwestern tornadoes. The historic, devastating December 10-11 tornado outbreak 13:18
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