LAUREL COUNTY, Ky. — In London, homes, trailers and businesses were all caught in the path of what many believe to be a tornado.
Monroe Murphy calls it a holy intervention. He walked away from the storm with only minor scrapes and bruises.
He said, “He will give his angels [to] charge over you, to guard you, in all your ways.”
While going through the rubble that was once his home, Murphy found someone else’s Bible.
“This is where I lived for the last six years. When I heard the noise coming through, I just laid down on the floor and I ended up way down over there in some of that debris hanging on, and I felt it just trying to suck me away,” Murphy said.
Mother Nature turned has turned rows and rows of mobile homes into rubble. Metal is wrapped around powerline like tissues. Two by fours stick out of the ground like javelins.
Karenda Vaughn is an owner of the mobile home park. She said, “All the families back here are all misplaced. Everything’s lost.” She added, “No deaths just a few injuries; a few people are in the hospital.”
Heavy machinery and operators are out in full force to clean up the mess. London’s airort and the call center where Dawn Hoskin works got hit too.
Hoskin said, “There was two trailers in the trailer park when I went over to the mailboxes. They’re completely gone. Like they’re not even just down they’re gone, they’re missing in that rubble somewhere. I hope they made it out.”
Hope and support are what the community needs now more than ever.
Murphy said,“It’s just unbelievable, the devastation.”
