BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — When a tornado touched down in Bowling Green, Kentucky, in the middle of the night, its violence was centered on one friendly subdivision.

It's a place where everyone waved at one another, and giggling children spent afternoons tooling around on bicycles on the sidewalks.

Fourteen people died in a few blocks. Eleven of them were from a single street, Moss Creek Avenue. Entire families were lost. Among them were seven children, two of whom were infants.

All around the neighborhood amid the ruins is evidence of the kids the neighbors used to watch climb off the school bus — a red wagon on top of a rubble pile, a mangled blue bicycle, a baby doll.

Neighbors who survived are so stricken with grief they struggle to speak of it.

Melinda Allen-Ray told The Associated Press she will never forget the screams from her neighbors in the aftermath of the storms.

"I heard them. It traumatized me. I think about that each night when I go to sleep, when I do sleep," she said.

Ganimete Ademi told the AP that the neighborhood is a diverse community of families from around the world. She herself fled the war in Kosovo in 1999.

"We come from war. This reminds us, it touches the memory of that, where we've been and how we came here," she said. "I turn my memory back to 22 years ago."

At least 88 people in five states were killed in the tornado event late last week. On Tuesday, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said 74 of those fatalities occurred in his state and that more than 100 people are still missing.

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — Officials in Kentucky say 64 people died in the wake of severe weather late last week. According to the Warren County coroner, 12 of those fatalities occurred in the Bowling Green area.

Along with the loss of life, more than 500 homes and dozens of businesses were left in ruins. But among the stories of devastation are tales of triumph and survival.

"It's devastating, really. I know a lot of people here and just wanna help as much as possible," Brittany Edwards said.

There's no shortage of goodwill around the city. Nearby, hundreds of volunteers packed up supplies at South Warren High School, preparing to move them to a different shelter.

"I wish there was more that I could do, but I can't really imagine. But as a community we all gotta come together and stick together, so that's why we're here doing what we can," Edwards said.

Homes on Robin Avenue sustained heavy damage, including the house where Muang Oo lives. In the aftermath of the storm, the 22-year-old rushed into the street in the dead of night, running toward the screams he could hear from his neighbor's home.

"I just heard yelling, screaming, so I went outside to check and then they were just yelling Bob's name," Oo said.

The tornado took most of Bob's house, leaving him bloody and confused inside what was left.

"It's kinda hard because it's either get in there, get him out, or think about him losing his life in there when all this fell," Oo said. "Just gotta do what you gotta do, I guess."

With the help of another neighbor, Oo got to Bob and took him out while debris was falling around them. The neighbors, who barely knew each other before, are now inextricably linked.

This story was originally published by Mike Valente on Scripps station WLEX in Lexington, Kentucky.