out God out, Right? If you look around, you can't help but look back. The other night was very much similar to 1974. Because if you were in town, you couldn't leave town. And if you were out of town, you couldn't get back in town. Uh, Rod Dodson was in eighth grade in 1974 when a tornado ripped through Brandenburg. Loss of a classmate, he says in part, drove him to a life of community service. I couldn't stand after we lost those people. I felt it was incumbent upon me to try to do something for this community. But parts of Dodson's community resembled a war zone much like Brandenburg Gate at nearby Fort Knox, access to Brandenburg, the city is also restricted. The mayor ordered a major business route shut down to repair power, and phone lines were probably were fussed That a little yesterday of locking down Brandenburg as much as we did. We're very minimal traffic in Brandenburg because the utility crews were everywhere on the main but thoroughfare, they're rerouting traffic coming from this this angle over here, whether from afar or up close, the destruction is impressive. Many here have surveyed the damage and have their own theories on what happened. But the experts are also on the ground trying to determine whether this is the work of straight line winds or a tornado. I just was watching TV, and about that time I heard it and I started crying and screaming to my son. My house is going, My house is going. A tornado narrowly missed her home in 1974 but France has done wasn't as lucky this time. Her living room has a new, unwelcome skylight. Her neighbor's home is open air. She's convinced this is the handiwork of a tornado. I know what they looked like, and I know what they sound like. It's obviously a tornado, Mike Callahan says. Now. He's just trying to determine how fierce the winds were. Mess Cecilia Residents are furiously trying to pick up the National Weather Service surveyors air trying to examine a quick walk through shows, far flung debris and the narrow damage field all indicators of a twister. A lot of the trees are kind of pointing toward the middle as the tornado goes through. It cost us a tremendous uh, what we call an inflow wind into the center of the path of the tornado. The tornado tossed around trailers in Elizabethtown, removed part of a roof from central hardened high school and trashed a football stadium. But the storm didn't take anything. Francis done, couldn't replace. Somebody said, You're not living right? I said, Yes, I am, too. WAY could still be days away from damage estimates. But of course there is one thing you cannot put a price on human life. Officials here tell us that throughout the storms it appears there was no one seriously injured here in Cecilia, Kentucky. I'm Ben Jackie W L K Y News Channel 32. Got to start all over again. Hearing the National Weather Service confirms a tornado touched down outside Taylorsville in Spencer County, Kentucky. Rebecca Yates looks out over the damage it left behind. There was five people that lived here, so they got out to their car and they looked back in. Their trailer was gone. You could see the strength of the storm through the damage. It's on these cinder blocks. The house used to sit. You could see the storm literally just picked up the house and dumped it scattering, citing furniture and many personal items that can't be replaced Among the debris is perhaps one of the most important things of all. One of the family members wheelchairs, their living that would've been the worst of medium and appealed that replaced of life. She always can replace everything else, an idea farmer Roy Wyatt is struggling with staring at what's left of his barn. Bad. Yeah, no, he he's lost things. He can't replace four of his 17 cows when they're laying down underneath there, balling on your taking chainsaws and trying to cut him out. I mean, that's that Z hardest part, you know, he tries hard skin can get to him, leaving Wyatt not only rebuild but to play Mama's. Well, I'll just have to bottle feed some of the cave