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'Y'ALL PRAY FOR MAYFIELD': TOWN GRIEVES IN TORNADO AFTERMATH

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MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — Judy Burton’s hands shivered as she gazed up at what had
been her third-floor apartment. She could see her clothes still hanging in the
closet, through the building's shredded walls. Across the street, her church was
boarded up. A few blocks away, the spire was ripped away from the town's grand
courthouse, its roof caved in. The restaurant where neighbors met for lunch,
too, was lost in the rubble.

She clasped her hands together and tried to quiet their quivering. Burton and
her dog had narrowly escaped as a tornado hit her town, part of an outbreak of
twisters across the Midwest and South. Now, she stood among the grind of heavy
machinery clearing the wreckage of landmarks, businesses and homes of Mayfield,
population 10,000.

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“It’s gone. It’s terrible, just terrible, I’m shaking,” she said. “It’s going to
take me awhile to settle my nerves.”

Burton can't imagine a single family here not mourning. Theirs is the sort of
town where everyone is connected to everyone else. Mayfield was one of the
worst-hit towns in the unusual mid-December spate of tornadoes, and Burton
looked around at a disorienting jumble of boards and bricks and broken glass.

Hundreds of buildings have been reduced to nothing. Roofs are sheared off those
that stand. Some streets are littered with snapped trees, clothes, chunks of
insulation and blown-away Christmas decorations. The fire station is inoperable,
most police cars destroyed.

At least eight people working at a Mayfield candle factory were killed, and
eight more are missing. It's still unclear how many others in Mayfield died.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear had feared more than 100 dead statewide, but he later
scaled back that estimate, with many at the candle factory accounted for. On
Monday, he said at least 64 had died in the state.

Burton worries for her neighbor and her little dog. They're feared among the
dead, as they were probably unable to escape as the walls collapsed around them.

Burton and others evacuated in the middle of the night. She harnessed her dog,
grabbed a neighbor by the hand and herded them to the elevator toward the
basement. About 15 people there cried, screamed and prayed for protection as the
wind blew open locked doors.

Down the hall, Johnny Shreve had been watching the storm approach from his
window. Lightning crashed, and in that split second of brightness, he realized
that their town would not be the same come morning: He saw an office building
across the street disintegrate. Then he dove onto his kitchen floor as chunks of
concrete pelted his body.

“It felt like everything in the world came down on me,” he said.

He lay there for more than an hour, trying to dig himself out and shouting for
his neighbors and his Shih Tzu, Buddy. Finally, Shreve broke through into the
living room. There was Buddy, trying to scratch toward him from the other side.

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He posted on Facebook that they were alive, and added: “Y’all pray for
Mayfield.”

“It blew my mind when the sun came up,” Shreve said, when he and others returned
over the weekend to salvage what they could and traded stories of survival in
the parking lot. “I don’t see how this town can recover. I hope we can, but we
need a miracle.”

In the nearby town of Wingo, more than 100 people took shelter at a church —
babies, people in their 80s and 90s, family pets. Everyone has a story, a reason
they have nowhere else to go.

Meagan Ralph, a schoolteacher volunteering to coordinate the shelter, pulled up
an aerial photo of Mayfield, her hometown, on her phone. She zoomed in, seeking
a landmark to orient herself.

“I can’t recognize it, it’s not recognizable,” she said. “I can’t even identify
what I’m looking at, it’s that bad.”

But she has found hope at the shelter. Donations have poured in. Volunteers from
surrounding counties came in droves. People from Mayfield take care of each
other, she said.

As the news spread of the horrors at the candle factory on the night of the
storm, hundreds of ordinary people arrived at the factory to help, braving
slippery rubble until authorities told them to go home, said Stephen Boyken,
who’s a chaplain there. That spirit is part of the fabric of Mayfield, he said:
“If you’re off in a ditch, there’s somebody going to stop by, probably three or
four trucks try to get you out and help you.”

By the time the sun came up, they were lined up at churches and school
gymnasiums to give piles of clothes and coats, food and water.

“We will recover, absolutely.” Ralph said. “We’re small but mighty.”

She looked around the shelter, and noted that the task before them is
extraordinary, with hundreds of their neighbors now with nothing and nowhere to
go.

Wanda Johnson, 90, ended up here after she was evacuated from the same apartment
building where Burton escaped. Johnson's windows burst, and she clung to her
doorframe, pleading: “Dear God, help me, please help me get out of here.”

At the shelter with her son and granddaughter, she wonders what will become of
them now.

“They tell me we don’t have a town,” Johnson said. “Everything’s gone. It’s just
wiped away. It just flipped over our city.

“We don’t know where we’re going to go — we don’t know what’s left to go to.”

Claire Galofaro, The Associated Press

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