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It took hours this weekend for tornadoes to cut a path of destruction in Kentucky, Arkansas, Missouri and Tennessee.
He was bracing for the grim number to climb. “But we’re digging out. We are tough. We’re going to grieve and then we’re going to rebuild,” Beshear said in a Sunday interview on “Face the Nation.” Four years after Hurricane Harvey rampaged through Houston, Webster said there are still people who haven’t been fully relocated. That’s a major metropolis with all kinds of media outlets to catch public attention, in contrast to many areas in the path of the recent tornadoes that might not stay in focus as the world keeps moving.
American Red Cross The organization says it’s providing disaster relief in Kentucky and the various other regions where the tornadoes touched down. “People lost loved ones, their homes, everything is just gone for them. We’re moving as quickly as we can to get much needed disaster relief and blood products to area hospitals in these communities that are unrecognizable now,” said Steve Cunanan, regional executive of the Kentucky Red Cross. Here’s where to find the local Red Cross chapter.
That includes Graves County, where the city of Mayfield is located. The city’s downtown was “completely devastated,” Beshear said this weekend.
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