did and now people have laughed their lives. is there anything that can be done, maybe mandating underground shelters, a protected place that is fortified in the face of these storms, which, i mean, to be fair, are getting more dangerous by the year, they re getting stronger by the year. there shouldn t be a tornado in december, but there was. right. one of the things the state government has tried to do is an alert on your phone. i don t know if that worked or not in west kentucky. i haven t been able to find that out yet. but i will tell you this, even before the storm, the cellphone service in rural kentucky is awful. the broadband, there s no broadband in a lot of communities so they don t have internet. that s one of my biggest priorities is to try to get more broadband investment in rural areas. there s broadband investment but it s not making it to the last mile in these rural areas and the cellphone service is terrible in west kentucky. so that didn t help the
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and probably get closer to a shelter. so let me just ask you at what point do you make that call, jim, what time do you head to the shelter, and do you have a shelter at your house? no, we don t. we re on a list to get an underground shelter put in our home. it s quite a long process around four to five months backlog on getting those shelters, underground shelters, installed. but i do have a neighbor that lives about six doors down, five doors down, that s whose shelter we were in on may 20th. and we emerged and found our neighborhood partially destroyed. and we will definitely like i said, we will get one. we ll probably get in his shelter if there appears to be
tornado. hurricanes are terrible, devastating cyclones and there s something about a tornado. what makes it uniquely violent? such a concentrated energy. the angular momentum in a small area. unlike a hurricane it s several hundred miles, it s especially an area like this where it s going through the heart of a city, the effects are just catastrophic. and right there i mean you couldn t be a mile down the road and be fine, you ll see houses where they re fine and yet their neighbor across the street completely obliterated. nothing wins. any type of structure against a tornado this size, this strength is going to lose. underground shelters. only thing you have. colt, set up for me the video we re watching earlier. i want to play more now. okay. what the scene was like in terms of your watching this tornado and realizing how strong it actually was. well, we got to the south moore high school parking lot, that s where we filmed majority
how has it changed throughout the course of the morning in terms of activity? people are just in a days. more people reemerging from their homes, wherever they ve been, and people are just have a blank stare on their face. one of the big questions a lot of people had, where did everyone go when the tornado came through? didn t have a lot of time to evacuate. knew severe weather was coming, but didn t know an explosive tornado came through. a lot of homes don t have basements, a lot of schools don t have underground shelters, including plaza towers. seven people killed. kids had to run into the hallway, crouch down, put their hands over their heads as the building crumbled on top of them. parent, ran to that school, frantically searching for their child. this morning, reyou coulders there, sifting through the rubble, many parents anxiously await answers as to where their
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