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These violent tornadoes caused considerable damage to the states concerned. Loïc de La Mornais, France Televisions correspondent in the United States, is live from Mayfield (Kentucky) and take stock of the situation.
Loïc de La Mornais mentions significant damage: ”The extent of the damage is staggering”. The special envoy explains that the city of Mayfield is ”simply wiped off the map”. No building has been spared, be it personal homes, commercial premises or administrative or industrial buildings. The inhabitants first mentioned the first strong gales before the calm and then the storm.
Working at full speed for the holiday season, several employees of a candle factory in Mayfield unfortunately lost their lives. The governor of the state announces a balance sheet of ten even if no final figure has been announced. This factory operated every day to provide the city with candles for Christmas. Some more days early on, meteorologists had warned of possible tornadoes. Indeed, the climate was quite high in recent days in Kentucky, over 20 ° degrees during the day, but 0 ° at night. A temperature difference that experts say can create these deadly weather phenomena.
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