'We don't have enough money to fix all this,' Mayfield family seeks help from local church to rebuild.

Record ID: 1650875

  • Title: 'We don't have enough money to fix all this,' Mayfield family seeks help from local church to rebuild.
  • Date: 13th December 2021
  • Summary: MAYFIELD, KENTUCKY, UNITED STATES (DECEMBER 13, 2021) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PEOPLE FROM LOCAL CHURCH COMMUNITY REBUILDING FAMILY HOME DESTROYED BY TORNADOES (SOUNDBITE) (English) MAYFIELD RESIDENT, GREGORIO RAMOS, SHOWING HIS SISTER'S AND BROTHER-IN-LAW'S HOME, WHICH HE IS NOW HELPING REBUILD, SAYING: "When this happened, they (his sister and brother-in-law with their six k
  • Embargoed: 27th December 2021 23:05
  • Keywords: 100 people feared dead 200-mile path Kentucky South U.S. Midwest demolishing homes levelling businesse rubble survivors tornadoes
  • Location: MAYFIELD, KENTUCKY, UNITED STATES
  • City: MAYFIELD, KENTUCKY, UNITED STATES
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Disaster/Accidents,United States,Wind/Hurricane/Typhoons/Tornadoes,Editors' Choice
  • Reuters ID: LVA001F7VHGEF
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  • Story Text: When local church community offered to help rebuild Alejandra Lopez Ramos's home after it had been destroyed by tornadoes that ran through Mayfield, Kentucky, last Friday (December 10), she couldn't believe her luck.
    "We we lost everything," Lopez Ramos, a mother of six young children and an immigrant from Guatemala, said during a cleanup of her home on Monday (December 13). "This is going to take a lot of money. We don't have enough money to fix all this."
    The barrage of tornadoes that tore through six states killed at least 74 people in Kentucky, officials said, as those fortunate enough to survive unscathed opened their doors to victims whose homes were destroyed, and hundreds of the suddenly homeless took refuge in shelters.
    The death toll was likely to rise as 109 people remained missing, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said.
    Some 28,000 Kentucky homes and businesses still lacked power.
    The tornadoes, which the governor estimated damaged or destroyed 1,000 homes, surprised people by striking unusually late in the year during cold weather on Friday.
    The dead, including at least six children, ranged in age from 5 months to 86 years old.
    Lopez Ramos hid in a closet with her husband and six kids when the tornadoes arrived.
    When the tornado was over, they couldn't find one of their daughters, who was hiding in an adjacent bedroom.
    "It is very terrible what happened," Lopez Ramos said. "I thank God, thanks to him, we were able to escape. he protected us from this awful thing. I am grateful to God because I did not lose any of my children or my husband."
    (Production: Alan Devall, Aleksandra Michalska)
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