MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) — Things have calmed down quite a bit since those storms rolled through this afternoon, but there are still people trying to clean up the mess.
That storm hit Montgomery County right around 4:00 p.m. Tuesday. Susie Wilkerson said the power went out along U.S. 60 just as she was about to fix dinner.
"I wasn't even paying attention to the wind until my husband said we need to get down to the basement, which I fought him on just a little bit," Wilkerson said.
Turns out, the winds were pretty serious. Their barn, a few hundred feet away, had its roof peeled off and a whole side of it smashed in. Debris from it was in a treeline a couple of fields over. Crops in the neighboring field also seem to show just how hard that wind was blowing. They're all leaning over in the same direction as the debris.
"I had no idea it was as bad as it was," Wilkerson said.
Just down the road, though, Tamela Thornsberry had a much different experience.
Thornsberry said she was just walking back from a friend's house when that storm first rolled in. As high winds bore down on the home, she went for the safest place she could think of.
"I climbed in the bathtub," Thornsberry said. "I heard glass breaking and the trailer shook,"
The wind uprooted a tree in the front yard. It crashed down right on top of Thornberry's living room, landing on her couch. She wasn't injured, but will have to find a new place to live. Her family members have set up a GoFundMe page to help her with expenses.
Emergency management officials said there were no known injuries across the region. Thornsberry and Wilkerson are thankful everyone's okay. Wilkerson said she'll take storms more seriously in the future.
"Probably, I should take things a little more serious when it's getting rough and I should have gone to the basement a little sooner because it could have been a tornado," she said.
