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Brandon Storm
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Matt Jones
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Ryan Lemond
Welcome, everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio Monday, May 19th. I am Matt Jones and we are here in London, Kentucky, at this one of the sites of the tornado damage that hit the state Friday night. We're gonna open up the phones in a little bit on the Clark's Pumping Shop phone line 859-280-2287. Avision Auto Glass text machine is 772-774-5254. You can give us a text there. This edition sponsored by the TJ Smith Law Office. You call TJ he'll make them pay. We are right off the interstate here in London. I'm not sure what the name of this road is, but we are at a parking lot in the Family Dollar, which is right off the road. And two straight ahead from us is the site of what was the worst of the tornadoes that hit Kentucky on Friday. For lack of a better term, you would call it a subdivision, but I don't know that that's exactly an accurate term, but I would say at least a couple hundred houses in this area, the vast majority of which no longer exist and the ones that do heavily, heavily damaged across the state. On Friday, tornadoes hit part of the mid to western part. There was, and there were at this point 19 fatalities, although that number could still increase, 17 of which were in Laurel county and I believe 16 of which were in this subdivision that we overlooked. I came down here on Saturday, the day after, and I will be honest with you, was not prepared for what I saw. I felt like, you know, being from the region, I wanted to come down and, you know, get a sense of what was going on. Also, if there was any way to be helpful, be here. And, you know, you see pictures and you see videos of tornado damage and it looks awful, but there's really nothing that can prepare you for driving up close. And the scene on Saturday was one of the more powerful things I'll ever see in my life. I mean, not just devastation, and when I say devastation, this is devastation, but also at that point still people kind of wandering around trying to get their bearings. There were folks everywhere. Cleanup really had not begun. There were still, there were still, I think, relief efforts happening. And it was awful. And it kind of stayed with me all weekend. So I decided we should come down here Monday. I want to thank a lot of folks who helped us make this happen today, including members of the Kentucky State Police and the people here at the Family Dollar who allowed us to use their facilities. And then this morning, you start to see a different phase of sort of cleanup. And it just looks like a task that is overwhelming to think about people doing. As I said, 19 people passed away. There are some harrowing stories. We'll talk about some of them today. The senator from state, senator from this region, Brandon Storm, is going to come on with us at 10:30 to answer a question I know a lot of people have, which is kind of, what can I do and how can I help? Especially in the immediate term. There will be, you know, relief funds, I think, for longer term needs. And there's going to be a lot, you know, over the course of doing this in the last five years. It's, it's unbelievable what Kentucky has had to go through. It's, it's. I said on, on social media, way more than our fair share. And that's definitely true. And we've been to all of them. We've been Mayfield, we've been to Dawson Springs. We went to the floods in eastern Kentucky. And, you know, I heard someone say, I think the director of State Emergency management, you don't like to compare them because for the people in each one, it was the worst one for them. And I think that's true. Mayfield had a ton of destruction, maybe more destruction even than here. A lot of it was centralized in the business community, although it hit other places, but it was, it was a wider array of parts. The devastation in Dawson Springs was awful, with a lot of fatalities. Eastern Kentucky floods were spread out over all kinds of area, but this is the one, I think, that has the most concentrated population in one place in terms of just. I mean, it's just awful. It's absolutely awful. Think about how bad you can imagine it. And I would say in some ways it's worse. Driving through it, I'm kind of amazed. There were only 16 fatalities in this, in this area, there are plots of land where there was a house, and there's not only not damage, there's nothing. Because the entire house got blown up in the air and taken away. That's hard to imagine, but it exists. And there are two things that really struck me beyond just damage and devastation everywhere. Number one, and I saw this, we saw this this morning, but it really hit me on Saturday. They clearly went through here late Friday night into early Saturday morning to try to see who was alive. And a lot of folks in this area apparently were elderly. And as they would check a house, they would just write in paint on the house, clear. And those paint you know, the. The word clear on these houses is still written. There's something very haunting about that to me. And then there's a different symbol, which I think meant someone needed assistance, which is also obviously very haunting. And, you know, the second thing is just the randomness of this. Now, there are not a lot of houses that did not suffer damage in this community. As a matter of fact, there may be none that didn't suffer any damage. But you do have situations where one house is gone and then the house next door survives. And you think, how does that happen? Like, what are the randomness of how that can occur? We're looking out over the area. There's three or four houses here right next to us that are damaged but still standing. But right across the street, there are houses that have absolutely nothing. And the randomness of that, that's, I think, very hard for me to process. It is a terribly sad scene. There are a lot of people here who have come to volunteer. We're sitting in this parking lot, which seems to be where a lot of people are sort of basing themselves, and then they're walking across to help. I think that's going to probably continue all day. There is a storm series coming tomorrow. So I think for a lot of these folks, if there are things they want to salvage, today is kind of the day to do it. And when State Senator Brandon Storm comes, he can tell us more about those needs. But I've now been here twice, and it doesn't. You turn a little corner coming off the road, and then it's there. And this morning, as I was driving these guys, I could hear all three of you almost take a gasp as we turn the corner. You know, it is. I just want the rest of the state to know. I know you see the drone footage. You see that, but it is more powerful than you can imagine what these folks are going to have to deal with. Ryan, you're seeing it for the first time this morning. What was your thought?
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Shannon The Dude
You know, I kind of agree with you. It's worse than I even imagined it was going to be. I mean, you mentioned there's maybe 100 homes in this neighborhood. 80 of them are gone, and I'd.
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Ryan Lemond
Say there's more than 100 gone.
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Shannon The Dude
It just. It's amazing that the force of that tornado, just because a lot of houses, like there may be still partial structure standing. No, they're gone. This whole neighborhood is almost completely wiped out. It's just. I'm with you. Actually, it's a blessing there weren't More deaths.
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Ryan Lemond
I'm kind of amazed looking at it. Amazed. I mean, I really am. Like, when you consider just how bad this damage is. If you had told me now, apparently there's like 10 to 15 people in critical condition. And so, I mean, that number can rise, but it is amazing there aren't more. Drew.
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Trey Farrow
Yeah, I mean, like many people, you've seen the videos and photos on social media, even the aerial view, and you think you have a grasp of what it was, but then just being here, it is so much worse. And when you're up close, like these big piles of rubble at these houses that people are going through, you know, when you're going by, you can see like their personal items. Like I saw a baby stroller and like a kid, probably middle school age going through a pile. You can only assume he's just looking for anything he can salvage. So, you know, the photos and the videos just don't even paint the picture really at all. You have to be here to just understand just how bad this is. I mean, it just. We would pass this row of houses and you think, well, that might be it. Then you come over the hill and it just keeps going. And then it keeps going and going.
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Ryan Lemond
Just unbelievable. The houses closest to the road, closest to the highway are the ones that as you'll drive up, you'd see and it looks bad, bad. But if that's all you saw, you'd say, man, that was bad. But where it really gets bad is when you go back there, when you go back kind of deeper into the subdivision and, and I would say to people, I think there's a natural tendency for people to want to see for themselves. And I understand that. I mean, I can't criticize it. I sort of have the same one. And I came here, I would just say today, if you're gonna come or to help or just come to, to see, don't pull your cars back there. It's becoming, I think, difficult for crews that need to get back there to navigate it. You know, there is. There are a couple of businesses right here where conceivably you could park your car and walk if it. But I. I do think. No one's told me this, but I think they need to be careful with cars back there because it. I walked back there before the show started and it was already. There were these trucks that are trying to do stuff. They have a hard time because it's a one lane road and they don't. It's not easy to, to get back to, you know, as in all tragedies, you see positives. Right next to us is a group of people from Louisville, Kentucky, I think it's called 316 ministries who've come to give food, water for the. Really that's, I think a lot of this for the relief workers who are here to get. Let them to have something to eat. I talked to the governor on Saturday and again, we'll ask Senator Storm more about this. What he said was to tell people there are a couple things that are needed immediately, like today, tarps for these people's roofs, especially before the rain comes tomorrow, work gloves, because that you can't really go back there and work unless you have gloves. And I think they've kind of are starting to run out of those. And then you wouldn't think of this, but boxes, literally boxes to put the stuff in to get rid of. Right. Like something to put the containers to put the stuff in. They asked when it comes to clothes, I think, at least for now, I think they said they feel pretty good about the needs. If you're going to send clothes, they would they just ask, please don't send used clothes. Because used clothes can actually become almost more of a hassle because they have to wash them. And there are times they need access to water. That may be less true here than it was in the flooding, but they didn't feel like clothes were the immediate needs. It was more supplies in the moment, Ryan, to be able to do some of this immediate cleanup work that's needed. And then I think they're going to probably need hands. I want to wait before I send people here. So just hold off till 10:30. But I'm going to guess that having hands would help over the course of the next day or so.
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Shannon The Dude
Yeah. You mentioned the powerful sighting we saw where it said clear on the side of the houses. Another powerful sighting. We were driving around, there's like six high school girls probably helping out one of their classmates, just digging their hands down in gunk, just, you know, insulation and drywall. Just trying to find anything that they can maybe salvage. Because there's that house that was behind the gunk was gone. There was nothing there.
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Ryan Lemond
I mean, on Saturday, as you went back there, you also just saw like, literally shock on people's face. I mean, you know, you're still at that point probably. And some people, you know, I talked to one group of people that were just coming back to see they had. As soon as it happened, their house was gone. They left. And then they came back at night, and then they came back in the daylight to see, you know, it's got to be unbelievable. And, Drew, you and I talked about. I don't even know how you start. Like, honestly, I don't. I don't even know how you start. When you come to your home and it's completely gone and all your stuff is everywhere, it is hard to imagine, Drew, how you would even start the process of trying to rebuild or figure out what's next.
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Trey Farrow
There's so many big piles of debris and rubble out here that it feels like you could do it forever, and it may not get done. So I guess you just got to show up and just say, well, I'm starting right here, and let's just get to it and get as far as we can. And as you said, the more hands, the better. We'll learn more on those details later, but it just seems like you could clean forever and not get this done.
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Ryan Lemond
I think there's two major spots here in Laurel county that guy hit. One is here, and then one is over next to the airport, it looks like. I mean, I. If you saw the geography, you look on a Google map, look where the London airport is. And then basically, it. So about half of the airport is destroyed, including planes flipped over. That's where the press conference was. Half the airport's gone, half of it standing again. Kind of random, right? And then it seems to have come over, and it actually, I think, went over the interstate, which is amazing that there weren't more tragedies from that. Think about it. That's. That's the interstate right there. I think it went over the interstate and then came into this. This subdivision. Highly dense population right here. So in Somerset, where it hit, I think they were very lucky that it hit in some areas that weren't as highly populated, because that may have been when the storm was the most powerful against Somerset. But it hit kind of in the mountains. You can actually see a video of where it went here. Unfortunately for these folks, it hit an area that is densely populated. I mean, if it had been right over there, there's not really many people that live here, so just. Just an awful misfortune.
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Shannon The Dude
Yeah, we all can. This a typical Kentucky neighborhood, whether these houses, like a thousand square feet, 1500 square feet, little older houses.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah.
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Shannon The Dude
Built like a tank. Just brick, you know, Built like a tank and have just been wiped clean. This whole neighborhood has almost been completely wiped clean. It's sad.
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Trey Farrow
And like, cars on top of the piles of the house, it just shows how powerful it was to lift up some of these heaviest things and throw them around like they have.
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Ryan Lemond
And we are across the street and there's debris everywhere over here and this building still like standing the fam, the family right across the street. But there is, you know, wood, there's just random people's stuff. It's just unbelievable. It's an unbelievable site and we're going to try over these couple hours we'll talk about some other stuff to try to also entertain but to let people know what is going on and how, how they can help. So what I want to talk more about what I what we saw on, on Saturday and just in general the situation. But yeah, you know, one of the things about this show that I think is important is to kind of bring the state to kind of know the rest of it. Whether you're in Owensboro, Paducah, Northern Kentucky, Lexington, Louisville. You know, this is part of your state too. And for me personally this is very close to where I grew up and so it's tough to see. We will take a break. Be right back. It's Kentucky Sports Radio.
- [18:21]
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Ryan Lemond
Back Tucky Sports Radio here live in London. People are right me asking you know, where could you send the various stuff I said was needed. Just hold on and let's ask somebody who knows who will be on, who will be here in just a few minutes. Which leads me to say something I wouldn't say positive. So you know, I got down here, I came to the area where it happened and then I went. Originally the press conference was supposed to be at the school right over here. The they moved it to the airport to try to keep this from being clogged up. This road and this road here I think is already it looks like getting clogged and maybe even closed on one end. So you know, if you, you just got to be careful coming through. It's KV Road I think. But so I went over to the, the press conference, Ryan, and, and you know it's, it's really easy in the last few years to get very cynical about government and its leaders. It just is. I mean I, you know, I don't care who, what side of politics you're on. It's very easy to go right. I just want to say how proud I was of this state, in that moment, standing up there at the press conference was the governor, who's had to deal with more of this than anybody should have had to. You had state Senator Robert Stivers, who's the Republican leader, he's from Clay county, which is right here next to Senator James Storm, who's gonna join us, who is from here. You had the state police, you had a guy from, from Rand Paul's office, a woman from Mitch McConnell's office, a woman from Hal Rogers office. You had the local county judge executive, you had the mayor, you had all these people. And I sat there and looked at the, at all these folks, and I thought to myself, you know, two days ago, I'm not sure all these people would even love being in the same room with each other yet the way that they handled that situation. I have a friend who doesn't even like politics at all, kind of dislikes all of them who watched it and said it made me feel like we have adults running our state. And I thought the same thing. I was proud of those people. I know a lot of them, and the way they were talking about working with each other, I mean, it's exactly what we want it to be. And so I would say to all of them, but also to all of you listening, you should be proud of those folks in that instance. This state has risen over the last five years and its leaders on all sides to really step up in these moments. I really. There were two moments. First of all, you can see the pain it has on Andy Beshear's face when comes it happens. You just can like, you can see it. And he's had to see a lot of this stuff. And then I like, somebody asked a question about, well, will there be enough money to take care of this stuff? And Senator Stivers, who's actually in charge, along with the House leader of appropriating money, he stepped in, interrupted and said, there'll be whatever money is needed. I love that because I can just tell you there's going to be a lot needed. I mean, this is going to be. My guess is when all is said and done, this will be right there with Mayfield as one of the worst disasters the states have.
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Shannon The Dude
You're right. You could see it in Andy's face. You could hear it in his voice, the pain, because that's the.
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Ryan Lemond
I mean, in terms of tornadoes, we've had other stuff, but in terms of.
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Shannon The Dude
Tornadoes, the best thing about this state is the people. And we've said it a million times. When one of Us needs a helping hand. We're the first one to be there. There'll be communities from all around London come here over the next weeks trying to help clean up and get things back and we'll rebuild it and be better than ever. But it's going to take a long, long time.
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Ryan Lemond
They've been blessed to not have rain here in the last and I hope it holds up. I mean today it's starting to get cloudy but today they, they didn't expect rain. I know they're expecting it tomorrow. So I do think these next 24 hours Drew are going to be pretty important to try to salvage what you can before.
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Trey Farrow
Absolutely. Kind of got to be in a hurry. It would be so unfair for this particular spots get hit again. But mentioned the state coming together. You know, we don't know where all these people come from to come help out but they do it immediately. A truck just pulled up here off the road, dropped off a bunch of stuff and then took off to help these guys. It's just non stop and I assume they're coming from all over.
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Ryan Lemond
Just, just these power trucks are from everywhere. Yeah, you know I've seen Servpro, it's one of our sponsors is all up in the area cleaning stuff up, you know. You ever been to a situation like this before?
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Shannon The Dude
Well, you know I was living in Masterson Station when the Masterson Station tornado hit. Devastating. But they had no deaths. You know the construction value. We all went to the West Liberty tornado years ago. I remember the destruction was there but not near as many deaths. Madisonville when it got hit years ago. It's not Kentucky gets hit all throughout the state but the death total. This one is what makes this one so devastating.
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Ryan Lemond
I think it's because everything was so concentrated right here.
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Shannon The Dude
Yeah.
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Ryan Lemond
I mean this is, this is. Wouldn't you say this is the highest populated area that's probably been hit?
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Shannon The Dude
I would think so. Like I said, you just picture yourself a typical Kentucky neighborhood of an older neighborhood. This is it man. This is it.
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Ryan Lemond
Well and Bashir said at the press conference he said there's a block and it's going to be up there somewhere.
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Shannon The Dude
Yeah.
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Ryan Lemond
There's a block that had five houses and everyone died.
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Shannon The Dude
I can see why. Because those houses are not there. It's just this foundation. Because there is nothing else there.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah. And that's, you know. How do you come back? Like what, What? Like how do you come back? You know what I mean? What, what do you. I don't know. Just trying to wrap my mind around Trying to come to this and go, what? Okay, what's the first thing we do, Drew, is hard for me. It's hard for me to process.
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Trey Farrow
And I think about just these houses around us that just have some root damage. The guilt I would feel that my whole neighborhood has disappeared, and I'm still with just a few minimal problems. I mean, obviously this area won't ever be the same. I remember West Liberty very well, seeing that path for the first time because I'd never seen that. That was, what, over 15 years ago? But that seemed to mostly just be through a wooded area. I mean, this is a very concentrated residential spot.
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Ryan Lemond
Well, when we come back, Senator Brandon I said, James Storm Shannon. That's the wrestler.
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Matt Jones
I don't think we can do anything.
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Ryan Lemond
That was in the Netflix show. Remember I said you can draw 500? I felt really bad about that. This is Brandon Storm. Different Storm will join us right when we return. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.
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Ryan Lemond
Welcome back. Kentucky Sports Radio. State Sen. Senator Brandon Storm, who is the senator for Laurel county, is here with us. I'll just start. I mean, you said you grew up. Did you grow up in London? Yes, grew up in London. Live in London. What was it like for you? What's it like for you to see all of this?
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Brandon Storm
Oh, man. I mean, you can just look out over this. It's a disaster. It looks like a bomb went off. It really does. You know, it's unimaginable. Pictures don't do it justice. When you see a photograph on Facebook or social media, you know, you just, you know, you can kind of see it, but when you come out here, you can actually feel it. I think that's what someone said at the press conference the other day. You can actually feel the destruction and, and the sadness. You know, we've lost so many lives here that.
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Ryan Lemond
Do we know officially?
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Brandon Storm
An amount I've heard between 17 and 19. I also heard another report that it could be as much as 20 or more. I haven't heard an official account this morning.
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Ryan Lemond
Okay, so now, you know, I'm looking around and, like, there's a sense of what is next for people. You know, what, what does this community do next?
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Brandon Storm
Well, I think right now we Hope to have 10 FEMA teams on the ground today to assess the damage. All kinds of volunteers have just poured in from all across the county, other regions, and right now we're just Trying to clean up and get the roads accessible, get valuables out of homes that, you know, you can look over here, the roofs are destroyed, and we're going to have rain tomorrow. So we've had church members, volunteer members, just get together and try to get the belongings out of the homes, try to salvage those.
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Ryan Lemond
Let me ask you, I've had people write me and say, okay, I want to do something today. Would it be beneficial to have people to come help with that process before the rain comes tomorrow or no?
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Brandon Storm
Well, you know, I'm gonna leave that to the coordinators of this. What we've been trying to do is.
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Ryan Lemond
Who is that? Yeah, I don't even know who that is.
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Brandon Storm
So we have an EO building downtown. It's. It's in behind Calvary Baptist Church, and they're directing all the operations. And so I do know that there's some people here in town. There's two crews that have been trying to tarp homes and try to, you know, if anybody's out there listening and they know of a home that needs to be tarped, we're trying to get those tarp before the rain moves in. So if they can come to my Facebook page, they're welcome to private message.
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Ryan Lemond
Is the Calvary Baptist Church the place that if someone would contact or to do something?
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Brandon Storm
Well, no, it's in behind Calvary Baptist Church. The EO building is the emergency operations.
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Ryan Lemond
Emergency operations, yes.
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Brandon Storm
Yeah. So, but yeah, if they want to send that message to me on my private. Or on private message on Facebook, I can try to put them in contact with them if they need their homes tarped. Some homes you can look. And it's just a total loss. There's nothing that can be done. And so if they also see a need where they just need to get belongings out and it's safe to go into the home, let us know that. And there's people that are volunteering to go in there. Now, what we want to make sure we're avoiding Matt and folks is looters.
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Ryan Lemond
Because we've also had a problem with that.
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Brandon Storm
We've had some issues with looters that people have come in and, you know, they may appear to be volunteer maybe. And we want to make sure that people going into these neighborhoods.
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Ryan Lemond
I just don't understand how a human being could do that. Yeah, I mean, I know that people can be. When we. When I was at the press conference Saturday, there was a lot of talk about looting, and I thought. But you'd have to be a despicable person to look at this and to sit there and think, I'm gonna go take stuff from these people. But you all have had some problem with that.
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Brandon Storm
Yes. And actually last night, up here in the southern subdivision, Sunshine Hills, I believe, they had installed a mobile unit with cameras on it that are motion sensitive so that they can detect when people are going into homes after hours. You know, when it's dark and no one's there working to try to secure the scene, you don't need to be going in and out of that house. And so it could be something nefarious. And so what they've had to do is actually start monitoring that. We had another situation I heard about where one of the victims who passed away in this. Her family went the next day to kind of give her belongings. Her home had already been ransacked, you know, so, again, it's just. It's unbelievable that people would do that kind of thing to neighbors.
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Ryan Lemond
That's. That's awful. I mean, that is. That's awful. And also during this period, that's the last thing we. People need to have to sit and worry about is, is that, how's this going to, like, you know, what does this do to the community?
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Brandon Storm
Well, I thought. I think it's brought us all together. You know, I came home from church yesterday, and when I went through my neighborhood, it looked like a war zone had went off, trees everywhere. But you would not believe the people from other parts of the county that I recognized that were there, who were just out there with chainsaws, out there with their crew of men, their crew of women who are volunteering, just, you know, helping their neighbors. And so there's people in this neighborhood we're looking at right now that I guarantee you two thirds of those people don't live there, but they're here to help them individuals. And then my neighborhood, where I left this morning, you know, we got hit by the tornado. And as I came through to meet with you all, there was other individuals there volunteering. So it's just. It's really awesome to see people come.
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Ryan Lemond
Together, is that this is the worst here area. Right.
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Brandon Storm
I would. I would say, well, that you're back there. Yes, there.
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Ryan Lemond
Yes, yes. I mean, I. We were. We. I was back there earlier. That. That. Back there. What's that? Sunshine.
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Brandon Storm
Sunshine Hills.
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Ryan Lemond
Sunshine Hills. That's. That's hard to look at.
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Brandon Storm
Yes, it is. And it kind of came.
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Ryan Lemond
Who are the people that lived here? Like, who. Like. Or live here? Like, what's. Is there. Were they older folks?
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Brandon Storm
A lot of Them, there was some that were, were I think unfortunately killed in this incident. But, you know, I've got cousins that live back here, children that live back here, nurses live back here. You know, there's first responders that live back here. So it's just a whole swat. There's, you know, I've got friends that are US Attorneys that live back in this subdivision who were out with the ATF agents yesterday who were actually volunteering to solid debris and things. So this is just a, it's a conglomerate of just good people. And you know, there's a church back here, I was telling you a moment ago that my father's went to for probably close to 50 years and it was destroyed.
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Ryan Lemond
Tell the story you told.
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Brandon Storm
Yeah, so Sunshine Hill Baptist Church, which is right up here, was destroyed in the tornado. And there was a flyer that was actually on social media that was reported recovered in Hazard, Kentucky. And when you look at the flyer, it's, it's barely damaged.
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Ryan Lemond
It's, it went for, it went from here to Hazard.
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Brandon Storm
Yes.
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Ryan Lemond
That's what, 45 miles or 45 minutes or something?
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Brandon Storm
Oh, yeah, at least an hour, I would say. Yeah. From this location. Yeah. And so it's not, it's not torn, it's not dirty. It's, you know, it's, it's amazing that it went that far. We've had, you know, a young man, one of my cousins, he had a letterman jacket that was found I think five or six miles away from his home. So, you know, which, it's amazing the, the devastation that this, do you have.
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Ryan Lemond
Any, are there stories? I mean, I saw there was a 25 year old firefighter. Is that right? Passed away.
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Brandon Storm
I'm not sure if he was 25, but yes, there was a firefighter, first responder that was trying, to my understanding, he was trying to help another person. The tornado just picked him up and threw him maybe into a house or a structure and it killed him and they had.
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Ryan Lemond
So he was actually trying to, to rescue someone.
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Brandon Storm
That's my understanding, yes. And I, you know, I talked with some folks last night in my neighborhood where the tornado came over a ridge and you can just see in the tree line, you see woods on both sides and you can just see where the tree line it came over. It's devastating hits. A house takes another house and the roof just totally blows off and goes about three houses down and across the street, all their windows busted out. And this gentleman was a veteran and a disabled veteran and he ran out to like after the tornado had passed to go see what the damage was. And he heard somebody yelling or screaming across the road. He goes over there, goes into the home and he finds a couple who are crushed. Now they're alive, but they're crushed and they're begging for help. So he actually rescued them. So that's the kind of disabled veteran. Disabled veteran, yes. Went across the street.
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Ryan Lemond
See now, I mean, that's a. That's an amazing story. Yeah, I mean, I bet there we. I mean, those things may take a while to come out, but there's probably a lot of stories of people being rescued in those moments. Right? I mean, you all had emergency services out here all night, right?
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Brandon Storm
Yes, yes. Yeah.
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Ryan Lemond
The. I was talking about how impressed I was with the way the. Everyone has worked together. I mean, you guys, you know, the governor we talked about as a Democrat, a lot of these local officials are Republican. The police, like, I just watching everybody Saturday, you know, it's easy to get so cynical about things. It actually sort of encouraged me to see all that. Does it fit you feel like that as well?
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Brandon Storm
Oh, yeah, absolutely. I mean, right now it's time to come together and it's time to help one another. You know, we're all brothers and sisters in Christ. We're all here to, you know, help our community and our neighbors. And so it's not about politics. It's about helping people.
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Ryan Lemond
So what is, as I said a second ago, and maybe you could find out before the show ends, what is the thing you would like, I mean, people all over the state to kind of hear. And when they say, how can I help, what would you suggest?
- [36:28]
Brandon Storm
Well, I would suggest, you know, right now, if you look at these locations, they're trying to bring in excavators and dump trucks, and it's very dangerous for pedestrians to be out here trying to just walk around. It's not very secure if they're doing that. And these folks that are to trying experts trying to move this debris. So I would say don't send a lot of volunteers into these. These locations. There's an operations center set up at the airport that people can go to and drop off supplies if they want to drop off supplies, or they can gather supplies and drop off what.
- [36:58]
Ryan Lemond
What is in terms of supplies? What would be something, you know, that is needed in the. I think the governor had told me, tarps, gloves and like, boxes, things to help. Anything else you. That you know of.
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Brandon Storm
I think plastic totes are critical right now because a lot of the, you know, rain's coming in on Tuesday and So we need to get these things that are perishable, their belongings, their photographs and stuff, put those in waterproof totes. That's probably the biggest things. I've got a list here of different locations and things, but where they can drop things off. But most of the places are getting a lot of water. And so, you know.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah, they don't, don't necessarily need that, right?
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Brandon Storm
No, they don't need that water. Right. Right now. May happen in another week or so, but. But right now they need, you know, critical. Some medical things, you know, band aids, medical kits, things of that nature, tarps, gloves, work gloves, things of that nature. And then I know they're also trying to make sure that people have homes. You know, a lot of these. These people don't. They're displaced right now.
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Ryan Lemond
So where are people going to stay?
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Brandon Storm
Yeah, so we've got a couple really awesome people in our community, Praxil being one of those. They've come up and they've said if there's somebody that needs a place to stay, that they're going to pay the cost of their hotel room if they can't find a place. We also have different places that have shelters. I've got First Baptist Church, the Lodge at Cumberland Falls, Piney Grove Holiness Wildcat, Harley Davidson, Dodge City Campground, Victory Life Church, Bethel London Multicultural Church, Pine Grove Grove Church, just various churches. We're hosting, I think at our church, the Kentucky Disaster Relief Group, and they're accepting water and Gatorade type products right now. But again, if anybody needs a place to stay, if you want to communicate with me, I'd be happy to try to put them in contact with somebody. I also have some other friends of mine that are. They don't necessarily want their names to be mentioned, but if there are people that need resources for homes or something like that, they're willing to, to step up and try to help them.
- [38:53]
Ryan Lemond
Okay, well, listen, thank you very much for, for coming out and for keeping us informed. And if you need anything, you. You let us know.
- [39:03]
Brandon Storm
Yeah. Thank you all. Thank you all for coming down here and supporting our community. I mean, everybody in this, this city, this country, the state, like, we all love you guys. And so you all being down here to support us really means a lot.
- [39:12]
Ryan Lemond
Well, I appreciate it. Brandon Storm, State Senator. We will thank you very much. We'll take a break and be right back.
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Ryan Lemond
Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Alright, Shannon, we'll open up the phones. 859-280-2287. Especially would like to hear from you if you're either from the area or had something, you know, dealt with it on Friday night, you we'd Love to chat. 859-280-2287. This segment is sponsored by Core Physical Therapy. If you're doing yard work or staying active by biking or running, increased physical activity when the weather gets more warmer can lead to aches, pains and injuries. It's Court physical therapy. That's kort.com over 70 locations statewide. It's court.com that's kort.com looks like Drew a lot of, lot of, you know, power company, etc. And volunteers coming in. I thought it was really touching. We were driving this morning. The Amish people that we saw with the hats and everything walking over there, just helping people go through their belongings. You know that there's something about that that I found really touching, that of.
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Trey Farrow
All the things Brandon said, the disabled veteran who helped save two of his neighbors, I mean, that's, that's a touching story. But at the same time, the looter thing is infuriating. When we were driving around, I saw the camera thing he's talking about and I even thought, I hope that's not there for looting. And to hear that people would do that, I mean, that is just absolutely despicable.
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Ryan Lemond
I mean, can you imagine, Shannon, how awful you would have to be to look at this situation and say, I'm gonna go loot? Yeah.
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Matt Jones
I mean, that's the worst of the worst. We talked about, you know, how great Kentuckians are at helping out. But then there's also on the flip side, a few, you know, people that are, they're doing this and it always happens with disasters like this. It's just unfortunate.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah. Well, you know, the state police officer, that's our friend PJ Burnett got up and said that during the conference. And I remember thinking, I guess PJ is just hardened by law enforcement, like thinking people would do that. I Was like, people wouldn't do well. I guess they would.
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Trey Farrow
We see the good and bad in people in this situation.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah.
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Shannon The Dude
There's a special place in hell for those kind of people.
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Ryan Lemond
I was about to say Ryan's gonna have a very strong comment. I just knew I could like to say more too. I could tell on your face, Ryan. I could tell something was coming that was not gonna be. That makes you really angry, doesn't it?
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Shannon The Dude
To try to take advantage of somebody in their worst moment, their lowest point in their life. They just lost everything. You're gonna go in, looking around for some medication or something you can steal from them.
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Ryan Lemond
It just. I bet it was more than medication. Yeah, I mean, that's. That's a sad story about going to your mother's house and seeing all that. That. Gone. You're wearing the Laurel county state champs shirt.
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Shannon The Dude
Yeah. They just had the documentary came out in March. These were the original shirts, were made in 1982, so they had made some replicas. And I got one, you know, that. That shows this county when they were probably had the most pride. So proud of that team that won the state title.
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Ryan Lemond
Well, let's talk about pride about something else. Reed shepherd was out here. Reed shepherd was out here Saturday. He. And. And nobody knew. If that dude doesn't post. That's true, right?
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Shannon The Dude
Yep.
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Ryan Lemond
I was. I mean, I know.
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Shannon The Dude
Just another worker.
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Ryan Lemond
I didn't see him, but I mean, like, he. But that's because he wasn't making a deal out of it. Right? He was one of the many people out here working. I think that. I mean, he's a great kid, and that was awesome to see. And then Mark Pope was on the roof yesterday. I have to tell you, I wasn't ready, Drew, to see a seven footer on a roof. Like, that's. That's kind of. You don't see that a lot, but a seven footer on a roof is quite a sight. By the way, this is the North Laurel, I think, football and baseball team, I was told was coming out here. That are now football guys. Right? That's. That's awesome. But go ahead.
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Trey Farrow
I like the. The photo of. Reading the caption, the guy said Reed just texted him, said, I don't know what you need me to do, but I'll be there in 20 minutes. Like, just no hesitation. Not even know what he's getting into. I'm on my way to help out. I'm not surprised that he did that. But. But seeing those photos is really great.
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Ryan Lemond
Some big boys right there. I don't know if I would want him.
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Trey Farrow
His shirt says big, bold and nasty.
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Ryan Lemond
Sure does say big, bold and nasty. All of them wearing jeans and boots. They know where they're coming.
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Shannon The Dude
Right?
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Ryan Lemond
Right. They're not. They're not looking like Ryan and us and me in these khaki shorts. Shannon, these dudes came understanding. Now I feel very much not as manly as I should be for nobody's.
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Ryan Lemond
Well, I did because I forgot because I got up late. I forgot. But I'm. But we will go over there and do. But like, that's the group. I want them. I would want them working at my house. 859-280-2287. How about Mark Pope on the roof though? Seven feet tall.
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Shannon The Dude
It was a little comical despite the situation, to see a seven footer up on this roof walking around that he shows you kind of a person he is trying to do anything.
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Ryan Lemond
How about he comes here to volunteer and he takes the roof job? Yeah. He doesn't take the ground job.
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Shannon The Dude
Guess he didn't need a ladder. He could just step up on the roof and listen.
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Ryan Lemond
Let me say all these other guys would have done something. One of the great things about Cal was his disaster relief. Rick would have done something, all of them. But he's the only coach we've had that would have gotten up on that roof. Would you agree with that?
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Trey Farrow
I need more details on how it happened. Like, I mean, there's obviously a hundred jobs you could do when you get here. But the seven footer said, I'll get up there and get that train.
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Ryan Lemond
We're interviewing him tomorrow after this.
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Trey Farrow
You'll have to find out.
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Ryan Lemond
So I gotta ask him how he ended up on the roof. Right. Because that is quite. Was quite a visual.
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Shannon The Dude
I wondered if his daughter that was with him did it first. And he's like, well, my daughter did it. I gotta get up there now.
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Ryan Lemond
Was she up there?
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Shannon The Dude
Huh?
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Ryan Lemond
Oh, I didn't see her. Yeah, I didn't know that was his daughter. There was a. Well, that was quite aside. 859-280-2287. Who's up first?
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Matt Jones
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Ryan Lemond
Jacob. Go ahead, Jacob.
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Brandon Storm
Hi, good morning. I just wanted to start off by thanking you all for I really, I think it's awesome that you guys decided to go to that area to, you know, to visit and kind of tour the devastation and just, I guess, thank you for drawing attention to all, you know, the tragedy over these past couple of days. And also I just wanted to kind of question I'm not and I know a lot of people probably expect aren't able to actually drop off directly supplies but is there somewhere we can actually order like the tarps or gloves or equipment and have that dropped off?
- [48:27]
Ryan Lemond
I have not seen that but I will, I will ask and maybe watch my social media if that's something that that is doable. I will, I will let you know. I know they will have relief efforts from a fundraising standpoint that will kind of get going in the but as we've talked about and I appreciate the call unfortunately been through these there's this period of five or six days that they are in the immediate need standpoint and even money you donate will not have time to process. They kind of want to do the donations in sort of the intermediate phase, which is where we've tried to be of help. But right now this is still in the, you know, this just happened phase and I so that will come. I think I heard Tuesday is when that will come. But for right now I will ask because that's a good question. There might be a way to donate money for some of that stuff, you know, but I will let you know.
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Trey Farrow
And like you mentioned and we've seen in the past, sometimes you're donating things that kind of get in the way and it just adds more work.
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Ryan Lemond
I've been told that the clothes do kind of get. I mean they still have clothes left over from some of these in the other ones because like, you know, people mean well, right. But like there's just, it's a very. That's a very hard thing to. It's the other stuff that we talked about earlier that they could use right now. We will take a break, come back. Our number two SKSR behind every successful business is a vision.
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