Trey Nolen of Gadsden sent these photos from a friend of his wife who lives in Kentucky…
She writes:
I just took these standing right outside my front door and outside my back door. We heard and saw the tops fall from 3 trees while we were outside, so we did not venture any further. It’s really dangerous to be outside. The sound of the trees breaking is not constant like it was last night. We listened to it until after 1 am, concerned the whole time that a tree would fall on the house. I still can’t believe that none did. I haven’t even been able to check with family and friends here to see if they had any major damage. They are not responding to my emails. My husband and his dad (he stayed with us last night) finally made it out of our driveway after being stuck for over an hour, but with no cell phone service, I don’t know how far they made it or how bad it is past my yard. I’m sure it’s as bad and worse everywhere. At least we have heat from a small gas fireplace in the basement and a propane heater, a camp stove for cooking, and limited electricity from a generator so we have lights and TV. (and power to the laptop!). They are telling us that power will be out 3-5 days. Since we still have the ice on the trees, danger of falling trees, and roads blocked everywhere everyone is being told to stay inside. They even said we have a curfew after dark. I have no idea what conditions are like at the plant.
This isn’t much fun and cleanup won’t be much fun either!
