LONDON, Kentucky (AP)-The residents of Kentucky and Missouri have moved away from damage to the hurricane-stricken neighborhoods and remained on the edge of the abyss on Sunday for more harsh weather after storms swept parts of the Middle West and South West and killed more than twenty people.
Kentecki was the most difficult injury as a devastating hurricane was damaged hundreds of homes, slandering vehicles and left many homeless. At least 19 people were killed, most of them in the southeastern province of Laurel. Meteorologists predicted a new mixture of “several days” of dangerous weather conditions throughout the country starting from Sunday with heavy rains, thunderstorms and more hurricanes, according to national weather service.
The weather service said that severe storms were possible for Lentucky on Monday and more on Tuesday.
Jeff White’s house was destroyed 17 years ago with most of his neighborhood in London, Kentucky. White, his wife and two of their children barely arrived in the hallway while the ceiling and the family room had been torn. On Sunday, the family returned to the debris to collect pictures, small blankets and other souvenirs.
White, 54, said: “It happened very quickly. If we would have been there after 10 seconds, we would go with the family room,” said White, 54.
The authorities said that the latest storms of Kentucky were part of the weather on Friday, who killed seven in Missouri and two in northern Virginia. The system also generated hurricanes in the state of Wisconsin, bringing the heat of the Texas punishment and temporarily enveloped from Illinois – including Chicago – in dust on a sunny day.
The weather service said that parts of Missouri and Kandas could see severe thunderstorms, and a cool golf and wind volume up to 60 miles per hour (97 km / h) to the two.
In London, Kentucky, Ryan Vanstran gathered with his older dog dogs in a wardrobe on the first floor where the storm struck his brother’s house on Friday in a neighborhood along the Kaifi road where a lot of destruction focused in a society of approximately 8,000 people. Vannorstran was home.
He said he felt that the house was shaking as he entered the cabinet. Then she shattered a door from another house through a window. All windows were blown out of the house and his car was destroyed. Parts of the wood had caused several parts of the ceiling, but the house avoided catastrophic damage. When he went out, he heard a lot of screaming.
“I think now, I realized that there is nothing I could do. I never felt this kind of strength of a fair nature,” he said. “So I was there and I was just a kind of thinking, either to take me or everything will be fine.”
Kentucky State Governor Andy Peshr said the survey teams were expected on the ground in Kentucky on Monday so that the state could apply for federal disaster assistance.
The victim of the nineteenth storm was announced on Sunday, as it was identified as a severe woman from Russell Province. Beshear said about 10 people in the hospital due to severe weather injuries, three remaining in critical condition.
He said in X: “I want the survivors of the hurricane that we are grateful because they are here – and we will help them in everything else,” and he promotes the efforts to collect donations to help the funeral expenses and rebuild.
He said that parts of twenty roads were closed, and some may take days to reopen it.
About 1,200 hurricanes strike the United States annually, and it was reported in all fifty states over the years. In 2018, researchers found that deadly hurricanes were repeatedly occurring in the traditional “hurricane alley” in Oklahoma, Kandas, and Tixas, often in parts of the middle of the most intense population of the south and filled with trees.
In St. Louis, Mayor Kara Spencer said five people had passed away, 38 wounded and more than 5,000 homes were affected.
She said at a press conference on Saturday.
Sherif Derek Witti wrote on social media, where a hurricane was struck in Scott County, about 130 miles (209 km) south of Saint Lewis, wounding several others and destroying multiple houses.
Storms were struck after the Trump administration widely reduced national weather offices, with external experts worried about how they affect disaster warnings such as hurricanes.
The office was in Jackson, Kentucky, who was responsible for the area surrounding London, Kentucky, was a vacant rate in March 2025 by 25 %; Luisville, Kentucky, weather service employees decreased by 29 %; The Saint Lewis office decreased by 16 %, according to the accounts conducted by the Associated Press weather officials. Luisville’s office was also without a permanent president, the responsible meteorologist, as of March, according to employment data.
Experts said that any vacancy rate exceeds 20 % represents a critical problem.
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See more pictures of severe storms in the south and west of the Middle West here.
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The Associated Press Sophia Terin in Chicago contributed to this report.