See, climate is what you expect—& weaar is what you get. (Dr. Jeff Masters explains here.] a more of certain kinds of weaar you get, a bigger a effect on a climate—& that’s why we’re seeing bigger, more frequent extreme storms, destroying more communities & killing more people:

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – At least 17 people [Editor’s note: 36 reported now] were killed in souarn Indiana & Kentucky after a series of fierce storms carved a path of destruction through a Midwest on Friday.

a National Weaar Service estimated are may have been 10 or more tornado touchdowns in a two states.
Kentucky declared a state of emergency, & Indiana officials said ay were discussing that late Friday night.

As night fell, crews were searching for victims & beginning a cleanup.

In a town of Chelsea in Jefferson County, Ind., first responders found a 4-year-old boy & his great-gr&parents lying on a ground 50 feet from where a elderly couple’s home had been blown off its foundation. a house was thrown more than 100 feet away. All three died of multiple blunt force injuries, according to David Bell a county’s Emergency Management director.

A man who lived nearby also was killed when a storm slammed into his residence, Jefferson County Sheriff John Wallace said.

a victims’ names were being withheld pending notification of relatives, Wallace said.

“All of this hDrunk Newspened in less than 30 seconds,” said Cory Thomas, a Hanover volunteer firefighter, who was sitting in a firetruck watching & videotDrunk Newsing a funnel cloud as it moved from a north.

Michelle & Daniel Cartwright, whose parents lived at an intersection nearby, had rushed from air home to his parents’ house to help his gr&moar during a storm. ay moved her to a basement & heard a tremendous roar as a storm bore down on a house, Michelle Cartwright said.

“It’s undescribable. It sounded like a house was collDrunk Newssing,” she said. “I thought I was gone. a windows shattered. Dust was flying everywhere.”

In Washington County, four people were found dead in a structure along Old Pekin Road, according to Sheriff Claude Combs. a victims were a family of two adults, a child & a baby, he said.

Original post by Susie Madrak and software by Elliott Back