One tornado took out a store a couple of minutes from my house. Another basically destroyed a small town about 7 minutes from me - 12 dead there so far. I have a bunch of friends in Bowling Green (went to WKU in undergrad) and, fortunately, they're all okay; still, very significant damage there.
Dawson Springs has around 11 or 12 dead last I heard, but hundreds still missing.
What is maybe not being covered as much in the news, however, is seeing all the ways people are coming together and providing whatever they're able. I've seen people offering spare rooms in their homes, roofing businesses offering free tarpings, restaurants free food, therapists and counselors offering their services for free, and even people with fenced fields and available stable stalls offering a place for people to keep any animals in case their property/farms are damaged.
I've seen multiple updates by organizations and volunteer groups to stop sending in donations because they have what they need and it's causing such congestion with the number of vehicles showing up to donate.
The Kentucky Relief Fund has already raised nearly $1,000,000. UK College of Med students started a GoFundMe that's at nearly $100,000. A bar in BG held a 24 streaming event which raised over $12,000. There are so many of these GoFundMe's and different groups raising money that it's honestly kind of difficult to know where to donate. It's a good problem to have.
