After an EF-1 tornado was confirmed to have swept through the city of Tompkinsville, workers and volunteers spent all afternoon cleaning up the damage Monday.
“We set up an emergency operations center at our old high school gym. From there, we just broke into groups and kind of tackled it in three different sections of the county once we realized where the major damage was,” Monroe County Emergency Management Director David Rich said.
30 homes were damaged, ten of those homes were severely damaged. “Luckily, the ones that were damaged the most, no one was at home at the time,” Rich said. There were no other injuries reported after the tornado hit.
Mayor Michael Bowe said he was impressed by how many people stepped up to help with cleanup efforts. “I cannot say enough good things about our local fire departments, and the city workers, the county workers and just local citizens,” He said.