Baker County woman loses 200-acres of forest near Kentucky property

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Multiple states successful the South and Midwest are moving to retrieve from monolithic harm and demolition pursuing a bid of monster tornadoes that ravaged parts of Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Illinois, Mississippi, and Missouri — with communities successful occidental Kentucky deed exceptionally hard.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Multiple states successful the South and Midwest are moving to retrieve from monolithic harm and demolition pursuing a bid of monster tornadoes that ravaged parts of Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Illinois, Mississippi, and Missouri — with communities successful occidental Kentucky deed exceptionally hard.

A Baker County woman, Carolyn Curry, said her location successful Kentucky stands contiguous lone done the grace of God.

She and her household members ain spot successful Kentucky. Though Curry present lives successful Macclenny, her mother-in-law and different adjacent relatives unrecorded successful Oak Grove, Kentucky.

Oak Grove is astir an hr and a fractional distant from Mayfield, Kentucky, the spot wherever officials said saw the astir destruction.

Oak Grove was mostly spared from terrible harm to buildings and infrastructure, but the scenery astir her family’s location looks similar it was plucked clean.

Curry says the 200 acres of woods adjacent her location – is gone.

Curry said the worst storms missed her location and much importantly, her family, by astir 100 yards.

“That to maine means the Lord had his hands connected it and holding it down,” she said.

Curry did not cognize if her household survived the storms until precocious Saturday nighttime erstwhile powerfulness was restored.

“I sat present and cried each time agelong and prayed for the radical due to the fact that it’s awful, it’s terrible. My bosom conscionable breaks for them. It tin hap to anyone of america and it’s conscionable overwhelming to look astatine the harm that it caused,” Curry said.

75-year-old Carolyn Curry told News4JAX she wishes she could spell to Kentucky and help.

She said she plans to donate to groups looking to nonstop nutrient and supplies to some Kentucky and the different states impacted by these storms.

Federal and authorities teams person been deployed and began betterment enactment arsenic aboriginal arsenic Friday night, but volunteers, supplies, and donations are inactive needed. State officials accidental it’s the astir devasting lawsuit successful Kentucky’s history.

“I judge this volition yet beryllium the longest tornado successful surely U.S. past from the constituent wherever it touched down to erstwhile it yet picked backmost up implicit 220 miles, 200 of them are successful my state, with our radical that person suffered from it. It was joined by astatine slightest 3 different tornadoes present successful Kentucky. I deliberation we present judge whitethorn beryllium many, galore more,” Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said.

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