HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. — Several people are hurt and more than 100 people are displaced after an EF-2 tornado hits Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
Just before 9 p.m. on Saturday night, Sade Richardson was inside her Calvin Drive apartment, and began to hear a noise.
“I was in the living room and it was dark and I just dropped with the kids, like a suction, I thought the windows were going to suck out, I didn’t know what to do, I thought it was the wind,” Richardson said.
The EF-2 tornado, packing 135 mph winds didn’t hit Richardson’s building but it did hit buildings across the street. The damage injured, though, not seriously, nine people and displaced 140 tenants.
“Blessed, very blessed because it could’ve been us, look at it, look at that, we have a home and they don’t,” Richardson said.
Not too far away, Glenn West and his wife Tonja, who owns Home Front Real Estate, are dealing with tornado damage after the twister hit a portion of the businesses roof,
”It’s our business it’s nothing we cannot replace no one was killed, no one was hurt in this building, so we’re just thankful, Tonja West said.
Glenn West said, “That’s the main thing no one got seriously injured everybody survived we’re all still together.”
by Matt Alvarez
February 25, 2018
