mayfield, kentucky. in that bathtub right there. what were you thinking? when i m just praying. no god. we ll take care of me. we just try to make a best of a bad situation. more than a year later, he is still living with his family in a fema trailer, second bedroom where my grandkids and my daughter sleeps at how do they all sleep in here? just my daughter asleep on one end and my two grandsons sleep on the other end. it s small, but this is all we got. he wants to rebuild here in a town that used to house 10,000 people but is now empty slab after empty slab, really no job opportunities here. i don t think it ever be the same. seven
family. a lot of my family has moved off. and in a sense they re refugees, too, because they ve moved away, right? you must be sheltered. immediately the next five minutes are going to be very rough in mayfield. on december 10th 2021 it was eerily warm outside. perhaps an early warning sign that a monstrous mile wide tornado was coming. charles cheryl was at home in mayfield, kentucky. so this is your house. i was in that bathtub right there. what were you thinking when i m just praying? branded, you know that god we ll take care of me. we just try to make a best of a bad situation more than a year later. he is still living with his family in a fema trailer.
it s this is the second bedroom where my grandkids and my daughter sleeps at how do they all sleep in here? my daughter asleep on one end and my two grandsons sleep on the other end. small but this is all we got. he wants to rebuild here in a town that used to house 10,000 people but is now empty slab after empty slab, really no job opportunities here. i don t think it ever be the same. and that is just a look at how the severe weather just really decimates these towns where people have lived that they this is where their livelihoods are, like charles cheryl now still a year on living in a fema trailer, it is so hard to get back on their feet after severe weather. that is an example of this, and we actually got a text from charles this afternoon and he reads in part. me and my family are packing up right now. i m not going to put my life in
tennis ball size hail with some of these storms, even if they don t produce a tornado. that can put your pets your property . your house in danger. you in danger if you re outside today s the day to be in, get in and stay in and just for our viewers who might be watching this in the track of the severe weather . what should they do? where should they go? i remember when i went to mayfield, kentucky, i spoke to one gentleman who hidden his bathtub and he actually survived the storm. i talked to him again today, he said people are going to a bowling alley in town because he s still living in a fema trailer. from the tornado back in 2021. what should people do right now? the tornado. if it would hit the bowling alley would likely take the roof off, so there must be a safe place in that bowling alley that he s talking about something surrounded by walls and not a wide open space. that s why we don t put children in gymnasiums . when a tornado warning comes in, they go into interior hallway