Buildings razed, cars overturned, trees ripped from the ground -- there were end-of-the-world scenes in the small Kentucky town of Mayfield.
Stunned and shaken, its residents on Saturday tried to grasp the extent of the damage caused by a series of tornadoes that swept across six US states, killing more than 80 people.
On Friday, after a tornado warning from local authorities, Fowler closed the restaurant around 8 pm, told his employees to go home and set off for his own home some 8 miles outside town."This was my restaurant, a family business for 38 years, I raised my family here, all my kids work here. It's devastating," Fowler told AFP.
The candle factory was also a family business and work was in full swing there as the holidays approached. An old green and white car was miraculously left intact by the storm, but the roof of the garage that housed was gone.Torn electric poles littered the ground.'Never had anything like this'
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