Tennessee man with meat smoker feeds people after Kentucky Tornado
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This story kind of hit home for me. After losing about all of my possessions in a tornado that destroyed my home in July 2016, it took a lot of help from family and neighbors to get back on my feet. I remember the town was basically closed down. I could not get to my home and eventually drove a half hour to the nearest town just to get a cheeseburger from McDonalds and some clean clothes from Walmart. The victims of these natural disasters are in shock, not sure what their next move is, and are processing the loss of loved ones, their homes, and possessions. The last thing they need to worry about is where to get a good meal. Kudos to this man for his kind actions.
Tennessee man with meat smoker feeds people after Kentucky Tornado
JohnG5 Been there & seen it too many times over the years when on assignment & every one of them has their own impact. Sorry to hear that you had to go through it all back in 2016. They don’t call them Tennesseans Volunteers for nothing!
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JohnG5 thanks for sending that out. Our town was hit by tornados in 2019. We were lucky and just had bad hail damage and lost several trees, new roof and siding. When I drove to check on my parents I was shocked at how one house would be slightly damaged and one beside it would be leveled. Ours hit about 1100 pm and there were multiple tornadoes in the region. We only had 1 death from that string of storms, although the destruction was wide spread. The generosity of the people from our state and town was amazing, but the folks coming to help from other states was humbling. Since you have lived through it, you know how devastating this can be first hand. You do not forget how powerful Mother Nature can be when you witness it first hand. You also realize how vulnerable we are as humans. Im not sure everyone understands the infrastructure damage that occurs, such as no water or electricity for weeks. With winter bearing down on these poor folks, especially in Kentucky, it breaks my heart watching the videos. God bless the man in this article. Right now those folks just need the basics and he has delivered.
GWG8541 Amazing isn’t it! I can tell you some crazy stories about that stuff. Glad you all made it out OK when one hit you.
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This story kind of hit home for me. After losing about all of my possessions in a tornado that destroyed my home in July 2016, it took a lot of help from family and neighbors to get back on my feet. I remember the town was basically closed down. I could not get to my home and eventually drove a half hour to the nearest town just to get a cheeseburger from McDonalds and some clean clothes from Walmart. The victims of these natural disasters are in shock, not sure what their next move is, and are processing the loss of loved ones, their homes, and possessions. The last thing they need to worry about is where to get a good meal. Kudos to this man for his kind actions.
Tennessee man with meat smoker feeds people after Kentucky Tornado
JohnG5 thanks for for posting this. Its nice to see some humanity in this far too cynical world. I’m sorry you had to go through this back in 2016. You know their pain all too well
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JohnG5 thanks for sending that out. Our town was hit by tornados in 2019. We were lucky and just had bad hail damage and lost several trees, new roof and siding. When I drove to check on my parents I was shocked at how one house would be slightly damaged and one beside it would be leveled. Ours hit about 1100 pm and there were multiple tornadoes in the region. We only had 1 death from that string of storms, although the destruction was wide spread. The generosity of the people from our state and town was amazing, but the folks coming to help from other states was humbling. Since you have lived through it, you know how devastating this can be first hand. You do not forget how powerful Mother Nature can be when you witness it first hand. You also realize how vulnerable we are as humans. Im not sure everyone understands the infrastructure damage that occurs, such as no water or electricity for weeks. With winter bearing down on these poor folks, especially in Kentucky, it breaks my heart watching the videos. God bless the man in this article. Right now those folks just need the basics and he has delivered.
GWG8541 its funny, but if you type a word that ends in an “s” like “was” and follow it with the word “hit”, it will be auto censored. The Meatgistics auto censor can’t spell.
“You never really die until you end up on the wall at a Cracker Barrel”
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GWG8541 its funny, but if you type a word that ends in an “s” like “was” and follow it with the word “hit”, it will be auto censored. The Meatgistics auto censor can’t spell.
GWG8541 I noticed that too. Censors are out of control…lol!
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JohnG5 thanks for sending that out. Our town was hit by tornados in 2019. We were lucky and just had bad hail damage and lost several trees, new roof and siding. When I drove to check on my parents I was shocked at how one house would be slightly damaged and one beside it would be leveled. Ours hit about 1100 pm and there were multiple tornadoes in the region. We only had 1 death from that string of storms, although the destruction was wide spread. The generosity of the people from our state and town was amazing, but the folks coming to help from other states was humbling. Since you have lived through it, you know how devastating this can be first hand. You do not forget how powerful Mother Nature can be when you witness it first hand. You also realize how vulnerable we are as humans. Im not sure everyone understands the infrastructure damage that occurs, such as no water or electricity for weeks. With winter bearing down on these poor folks, especially in Kentucky, it breaks my heart watching the videos. God bless the man in this article. Right now those folks just need the basics and he has delivered.
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The man is out there doing the Lord’s work for sure.
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GWG8541 our little town was up and running pretty quick and had a lot of help from neighbors and friends, other towns and counties. The first 36 hours after were pretty stressful. But things got back to some sense of normal pretty quickly.
JohnG5 my house only lost power for a couple of days and my water was on the entire time. My parents and brother were out of electricity for about a week and water was off for several days. Thinking back on it, the power crew that restored my parents electricity was ironically from Kentucky.
There were 27 tornados that hit our area on the 27th of May, 2019. The worst was an EF4. These pics were a few miles from my house the following morning while heading over to check on my parents. Our local weather stations did a good job of warning people. My family was in bed, but I stayed up to watch the late news since we were expecting bad weather. It was one of the few times I made the family get to the basement. There was also a lot of damage in the city where RON PARRISH works.
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JohnG5 my house only lost power for a couple of days and my water was on the entire time. My parents and brother were out of electricity for about a week and water was off for several days. Thinking back on it, the power crew that restored my parents electricity was ironically from Kentucky.
There were 27 tornados that hit our area on the 27th of May, 2019. The worst was an EF4. These pics were a few miles from my house the following morning while heading over to check on my parents. Our local weather stations did a good job of warning people. My family was in bed, but I stayed up to watch the late news since we were expecting bad weather. It was one of the few times I made the family get to the basement. There was also a lot of damage in the city where RON PARRISH works.
GWG8541 I sure am glad you all made it through that. Those can be terrible & each one has its own personality as I have met with folks that have had their buildings destroyed over the years from coast to coast.
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JohnG5 my house only lost power for a couple of days and my water was on the entire time. My parents and brother were out of electricity for about a week and water was off for several days. Thinking back on it, the power crew that restored my parents electricity was ironically from Kentucky.
There were 27 tornados that hit our area on the 27th of May, 2019. The worst was an EF4. These pics were a few miles from my house the following morning while heading over to check on my parents. Our local weather stations did a good job of warning people. My family was in bed, but I stayed up to watch the late news since we were expecting bad weather. It was one of the few times I made the family get to the basement. There was also a lot of damage in the city where RON PARRISH works.
GWG8541
Former roommate and his girlfriend on the cover of the Wichita Eagle standing on top of my former home.Aerial view. Was a three-lot mobile home park. Across the street was a nursing home and a grain bin/farm supply store. A lot had been cleaned up by the time this photo was taken.
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JohnG5 my house only lost power for a couple of days and my water was on the entire time. My parents and brother were out of electricity for about a week and water was off for several days. Thinking back on it, the power crew that restored my parents electricity was ironically from Kentucky.
There were 27 tornados that hit our area on the 27th of May, 2019. The worst was an EF4. These pics were a few miles from my house the following morning while heading over to check on my parents. Our local weather stations did a good job of warning people. My family was in bed, but I stayed up to watch the late news since we were expecting bad weather. It was one of the few times I made the family get to the basement. There was also a lot of damage in the city where RON PARRISH works.
GWG8541 Yes our plant was without power for 6 days. It took the roof off of our storage building but a little 14 ft john boat on a trailer right beside it never moved
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Makes our snow storms and below zero weather seem pretty tame up here in wi and I am thankful for that. It must be horrible to live through the devastation of a tornado.
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GWG8541
Former roommate and his girlfriend on the cover of the Wichita Eagle standing on top of my former home.Aerial view. Was a three-lot mobile home park. Across the street was a nursing home and a grain bin/farm supply store. A lot had been cleaned up by the time this photo was taken.
JohnG5 Just to make it out of something like that is unreal and then dealing with losing everything I can’t even imagine
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JohnG5 Just to make it out of something like that is unreal and then dealing with losing everything I can’t even imagine
RON PARRISH It got back to normal pretty quick, just had to do more shopping than normal. Learned to downsize my life quite a bit. I have not anywhere near a quarter of the possessions I used to have and I don’t care about getting them back.
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GWG8541
Former roommate and his girlfriend on the cover of the Wichita Eagle standing on top of my former home.Aerial view. Was a three-lot mobile home park. Across the street was a nursing home and a grain bin/farm supply store. A lot had been cleaned up by the time this photo was taken.
JohnG5 brother I’m glad your still with us. The aerial photo with the building untouched in the background is amazing. I hope you all are doing OK today with those 90 mph winds in Kansas. My nephew lives near Salina said they had 98 MPH straight wind today. Unbelievable
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RON PARRISH It got back to normal pretty quick, just had to do more shopping than normal. Learned to downsize my life quite a bit. I have not anywhere near a quarter of the possessions I used to have and I don’t care about getting them back.
JohnG5 Thats the spirit! Glad everything worked out
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JohnG5 Thats the spirit! Glad everything worked out
RON PARRISH JohnG5 just watching the local news from the Kentucky tornados. The biggest being an EF4 with a mile wide path that traveled 128 miles long. The photos of Mayfield are heartbreaking. The downtown area is destroyed. Ron, it reminds me of the 1974 Xenia, Ohio F5 that hit. I can remember driving by in the aftermath of that with my dad to check out a friend’s neighborhood. It was literally gone. I was 10 when it hit and never forgot those images. Stuff can be replaced, but the loss of life in Kentucky is sad to say the least.
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RON PARRISH JohnG5 just watching the local news from the Kentucky tornados. The biggest being an EF4 with a mile wide path that traveled 128 miles long. The photos of Mayfield are heartbreaking. The downtown area is destroyed. Ron, it reminds me of the 1974 Xenia, Ohio F5 that hit. I can remember driving by in the aftermath of that with my dad to check out a friend’s neighborhood. It was literally gone. I was 10 when it hit and never forgot those images. Stuff can be replaced, but the loss of life in Kentucky is sad to say the least.
GWG8541 I lived in Trenton at that time but made that same drive with my dad. Those images do stick with you. Cant imagine actually going thru it.
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