The destruction is unbelievable and widespread. Houses gone, debris piled up, a sight expanding block after block. And it took just three minutes."The longest three minutes of my life," said Mayfield resident Michael Bryant. "Imagine your furniture, all your belongings in your house just flying around you everywhere."Walls and roofs are blown off some houses, while other homes are completely leveled. Angela Wheeler's house shifted so much, her bedroom now looks like a front porch."As you can tell, it's off its foundation and I was just afraid we were going to fall into the basement and be stuck," Wheeler said.Wheeler and her husband, who is on dialysis, were trapped inside, but eventually escaped out a side window. Across the street, their neighbors' house was leveled and their 3-year-old son was killed.On Saturday, volunteers went door to door, trying to do what they can to be good neighbors. "We're checking houses to make sure no one's left here," said volunteer Sara Cunningham.The twister also ripped through downtown Mayfield, leaving streets filled with rubble, crumbling businesses and churches and collapsing city buildings."We're a very resilient group of people," said Bobby Walridge, of Yahweh Baptist Church. "There's a lot of people of faith. Many churches in this county."Church members worked to salvage what they could while sending prayers for those whose houses were leveled.Despite the destruction around it, the Mayfield 'More Than a Memory' mural still stands. A poignant image while too many residents only have memories to hold onto.
The destruction is unbelievable and widespread. Houses gone, debris piled up, a sight expanding block after block. And it took just three minutes.
"The longest three minutes of my life," said Mayfield resident Michael Bryant. "Imagine your furniture, all your belongings in your house just flying around you everywhere."
Walls and roofs are blown off some houses, while other homes are completely leveled.
Angela Wheeler's house shifted so much, her bedroom now looks like a front porch.
"As you can tell, it's off its foundation and I was just afraid we were going to fall into the basement and be stuck," Wheeler said.
Wheeler and her husband, who is on dialysis, were trapped inside, but eventually escaped out a side window. Across the street, their neighbors' house was leveled and their 3-year-old son was killed.
On Saturday, volunteers went door to door, trying to do what they can to be good neighbors.
"We're checking houses to make sure no one's left here," said volunteer Sara Cunningham.
The twister also ripped through downtown Mayfield, leaving streets filled with rubble, crumbling businesses and churches and collapsing city buildings.
"We're a very resilient group of people," said Bobby Walridge, of Yahweh Baptist Church. "There's a lot of people of faith. Many churches in this county."
Church members worked to salvage what they could while sending prayers for those whose houses were leveled.
Despite the destruction around it, the Mayfield 'More Than a Memory' mural still stands. A poignant image while too many residents only have memories to hold onto.
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