The tornado damage in Bowling Green, Kentucky is unlike anything I've ever seen. It looks like a bomb went off.
At 1.20am, the rain starts for real. It comes on fast. It's the loudest rain we've ever heard. It sounds like a thousand tiny hammers. Then something else starts hitting the roof. Something even louder."It's just hail," he says."It's not a tornado." I look at him with disbelief.We sit without moving, frozen in fear and holding onto each other as if it will help. I hear debris hitting the roof, the street, even the trees. I hear things snapping.
For a block, there is nothing but total devastation. We live in a neighborhood built in the 1950s. Every yard has dogwood and pear trees that turn lovely pinks and whites in the spring and oaks that blaze with oranges, yellows, and reds in the fall. But for an entire block, not a tree stands. It is unrecognizable.
A neighbor stands in his yard and asks me what is going on. I look into his face and see only confusion."Do you really not know what happened?""People have died," I tell him."Houses have been leveled. You're lucky you have power." Tornado damage is seen after extreme weather hit Bowling Green, Kentucky on December 11, 2021. Molly McCaffrey and her husband sheltered at home as the tornado hit.Back at home, I pull my husband close. I know we are lucky to be alive.
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