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原文传递 Corps Crews Help After Tornado Devastates Western Kentucky

题名：	Corps Crews Help After Tornado Devastates Western Kentucky
正文语种：	eng
作者：	SHELLEY BYRNE
摘要：	In fewer than three weeks, the Corps of Engineers has hauled so much debris from tornado-ravaged Graves County, Ky., that it is the equivalent of a football field piled 30 feet high with the remains of homes, businesses and trees. George Minges, emergency management chief for the Louisville district, said a team arrived December 23 and has been working daily since then to clear rights-of-way where home and business owners are placing debris next to the road. The initial team has grown to 44 people now on the ground in Graves County. The EF-4 tornado December 10 leveled much of the downtown business district of Mayfield, a city of about 10,000 people that is the seat of county government, before tearing across western Kentucky. It also caused severe damage in adjacent Marshall County and in the towns of Princeton and Dawson Springs and farther east. Other long-track tornadoes caused damage elsewhere in Kentucky, along with Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois and Tennessee, according to the National Weather Service. In Mayfield, the tornado barreled down the city's main thoroughfare, Broadway, destroying historic buildings on both sides of the street, including the Graves County Courthouse, Mayfield City Hall, the police and fire departments and virtually all businesses on and near the court square, along with surrounding homes. Gov. Andy Beshear reported a week af- ter the storms that 77 people had died, including 21 in Graves County alone. That made the tornado the deadliest storm ever to hit the state.
出版年：	2022
期刊名称：	The Waterways Jouranl
卷：	135
期：	40
页码：	12-13,4