Kentucky officials warned on Monday that residents of Kentucky County who killed dozens of people in the tornado may not have heating, water or electricity for several weeks or more in cold temperatures because of the damage and loss caused by the tornado in five states. The death toll has become clearer. Twister.

Authorities are still counting the damage caused by Friday’s storm, but they believe that the death toll will be lower than initially feared, because it seems that more people have escaped from a candle factory in Mayfield, Kentucky than initially thought.

At least 88 people (including 74 in Kentucky) were killed by the tornado. The tornado also destroyed a nursing home in Arkansas, severely damaged an Amazon distribution center in Illinois, and spread its fatal impact to Tennessee and Missouri. Governor Andy Beshir said that as of Monday afternoon, there are still 105 people missing in Kentucky.

As the search for those who are still missing continues, work has also shifted to repairing the power grid, providing shelter to people whose houses have been destroyed, and providing drinking water and other supplies.

"We will not make any of our families homeless," Bashir said when announcing that the state park cabins were being used to provide shelter.

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In Mayfield, one of the worst-hit towns, the survivors faced high temperatures of around 10 degrees Celsius and sub-zero temperatures on Monday without any utilities.

"Our infrastructure has been severely damaged. We have no running water. Our water tower has been lost. Our wastewater management has been lost and the city has no natural gas. So we have nothing to rely on there," Mayfield Mayor Casey Stewart ·Ao'nan said in the morning on CBS. "So for so many of us, it's purely for survival."

According to data from poweroutage.us, approximately 26,000 homes and businesses across the state have lost power, including almost all homes and businesses in Mayfield.

The director of emergency management in Kentucky, Michael Dossett, told reporters that more than 10,000 homes and businesses have been without water, and another 17,000 are in a state of boiling water warning.

Dorset warned that full recovery in the worst-hit areas may take not only months, but also years. 

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"This will last for several years," he said. 

The authorities are still working to determine the total number of deaths, and the storm has made it impossible to conduct house-to-house searches in certain places. "There is no door," Bashir said.

"We will have more than 1,000 houses disappeared, just disappeared," he said.

Bashir said on Sunday morning that the state's death toll could exceed 100. But he later said it might be as low as 50.

Initially, as many as 70 people may have died in Mayfield’s candle factory, but the company said on Sunday that it had confirmed 8 deaths, 8 people are still missing, and more than 90 people are still missing.

The company’s spokesperson Bob Ferguson said: “Many employees gathered in the tornado shelter. After the storm, they left the factory and went home.” “Due to the power outage and no landline phone, they were difficult to reach at first. We hope we will try Eight more people were found unaccounted for in their residence."

Destroyed buildings and debris from broken trees covered the ground in Mayfield, a city of approximately 10,000 people in western Kentucky. Twisted metal plates, collapsed electrical wires and wrecked vehicles are all over the streets. The windows were blown up and the roof was torn from the still standing building.

According to CBS Mornings fire chief Jeremy Creason, firefighters in the town had to remove the fire station door to rescue the vehicle.

"Words cannot describe their bravery and selflessness," he said of his employees. "We had to try to get through all the debris on the street. We responded with three and four ambulances with flat tires."

At the candle factory, when the news broke about seeking asylum, the night shift workers were busy on vacation.

For Autumn Kirks, this means throwing away wax buckets and perfume buckets and creating a temporary safe place. She looked away from her boyfriend Lannis Ward, who was about three meters away at the time.

Suddenly, she saw the sky and lightning where the wall was, and Ward had disappeared.

"I remember looking away from him for a second, and then he left," Kirks said.

Later that day, she received terrible news that Ward was killed in the storm.

"This is indescribable," Pastor Joel Cowley said of the disaster scene. "It's almost like you are in a twilight city. You can smell the scent of candles, you can hear people calling for help. The smell of candles and all the alarms are not what I expected to experience at the same time."

Authorities said that a total of four tornadoes hit Kentucky, and one of them had a very long path, about 322 kilometers.

In addition to the death toll in Kentucky, the tornado caused at least six deaths in Illinois. The Amazon distribution center in Edwardsville was also attacked; four were in Tennessee; two were in Arkansas, where nursing homes were destroyed, the governor Said workers used their bodies to protect residents; and two were in Missouri.

Not far from Mayfield, 67 people spent Sunday night in a church in Wengo, and another 40 people are expected to arrive on Monday. Organizers are working hard to find a mobile outdoor shower facility and a laundry truck, and it is expected that many displaced people will need a place to live for a long time. Volunteers are also scrambling to meet more urgent needs. 

"I have two underwears," one of them said. "Do we have socks?"

Cynthia Gargis, a 51-year-old Mayfield resident, lived with her daughter, including her Christmas tree, after a storm destroyed the front of her apartment and sucked almost everything inside. She came to the shelter to help and visit friends who had lost their homes.

"I don't know, I don't know how we will overcome all this," she said. "It will never be the same."

On the outskirts of another small town, Dawson Springs, which was destroyed by the storm, houses were razed to the ground, trees collapsed, and rubbish was littered within at least a mile. 

"It looks like the bomb exploded. It was only completely destroyed in certain areas," said Hopkins County Executive Judge Jack Whitfield.

He estimated that more than 60% of the town, including hundreds of houses, are “unrepairable”. 

"It will take years to fully recover," he said. 

Tim Morgan, the volunteer pastor of the Hopkins County Sheriff’s Department, said he has seen the aftermath of tornadoes and hurricanes before, but has never been like this. 

"This is absolutely devastating. There is now an entire hillside with a three-foot-high house," he said.

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