you can see these postal trucks. one on top of another. look at this car, you re seeing things like this, a postal vehicle. look at this. this is one of those postal trucks. it s compacted as if it were in a trash compacter. i want to spin around and just show you this isn t one of those camera tricks where there s a little spot behind us that s devastated. everywhere you look for blocks and blocks, you see this. this is the downtown of mayfield. it s a town of about 10,000 people, which is large, and this is the downtown core, the courthouse is gone, the fire station is gone, there s no power around here. there are houses that are entirely disappeared. this is not, by the way, where most people lost their lives. that s at the candle factory, which is about eight minutes from here, where that roof collapsed. about 110 people are thought to have been there when the tornado hit on friday night into saturday morning. they have recovered they have saved 40 people, roughly, out of there,
we all cooped up in the bathroom, we put my two boys in the bathtub, put pillows on top of them. we just sat down beside the bathtub and put pillows on top of us. we had our 2-month-old baby in the car seat. we left her in the car seat thinking that would be a little more protection for her. and we even had our dog in there with us. my gosh. but it was just crazy. it s the most traumatic thing i have ever been through, and i felt like i was helpless in protecting my kids against it. i mean, it s just it just picked us up and just threw us around. and landed us on the other side of the neighbor s house. reporter: i can t even begin to imagine what the coons went through on friday night. but as residents here are banding together to pick up from this horrible storm, it does remind us of miracles, they do happen, whether he wants to say