going get through this. all right, i want to go to our drone now to show you a scene of where we are. this is our team here at nbc. wendy s actually next to me. we ll be talking to her in a second. take a look at the devastation around here. this is how tornadoes work, you may see an area of immense devastation and then outside of that area, no devastation at all. this is downtown mayfield. there are a lot of tornadoes that strike places that are not particularly populated, but there are 10,000 people in this town. of the places that were hit, this is one of the most populous. you can see the kind of damage we re talking about. in some cases, houses entirely flattened, cars entirely damaged. i want to bring you down here to ground level. there s no power around here, that s because power poles didn t just fall over, they completely snapped. there s nothing to put the power