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"We don't have any known fatalities, just a lot of damage and rubble," Sutton said. It was Sutton who told me that only Reynold's Grocery went undamaged by the storm. Every other building lining Main Street, the main drag and the only real street in Stamping Ground, had at least minimum damage.
"Governor Ford, I think, has already flown over," Sutton continued. "Of course, he put in the National Guard and has offered any other assistance we might need.
"We're under martial law and there'll be a curfew at seven tonight," he warned.
Bobby G. Vance, neatly outfitted in his depty sheriff's uniform, was keeping a careful eye on the people, especially sightseers and other strangers, walking the street.
Where will the people stay?
"Well, last night they put them in Scott County Junior High," Vance said. "I expect they'll do the same thing tonight."
Are the citizens, cooperating with efforts to begin work?
"They're cooperating fine, everyone's workin' hard," he said.
Wow, that lady in curlers was right. I hadn't seen anything until I reached the trailer park. Only one mobile home remained standing, even it had broken windows and a
slightly torn roof.
In the back of the park a backhoe was lifting the roof of one trailer from its ruins underneath. The trailer belonged to Arnold Wise. I was afraid to talk to him initially because he was totin' a pistol on his hip. I'm extremely afraid of guns.
"There was silence and we saw what was coming," Arnold said, explaining he and his family were already outside of their home.
"We didn't have no place to go. We saw the clouds movin' in and just hit the ground." The Arnolds hit the ground less than 10 feet from their trailer. They were also about 10 feet from their car which was on their other side. "The couple in that trailer (a big one resting upside down on its roof) didn't know what to do so they jumped in a closet at the back. I swear the wind lifted it eight feet off the ground but when everything died down they just crawled out."
"A lot of waste," Arnold said as he looked first at the damaged trailer park and then to Main Street. "A lot of waste."
"The tornado missed the car but hit the trailer," he said. "We came out with just a couple of scratches from the metal flying over our heads."
I slowly made my way back to the car, casually noticing fiber-glass insulation that had been ripped from its previous housing and was now covering the wire farm fences. It looked as though someone had tried to stuff each frame of the fence with flashy-pink cotton wads.
During the hot 20 mile drive from Stamping Ground to Jett, a small community on the southern edge of Frankfort, signs of destruction were everywhere. I passed barn after barn with only a rib-frame standing. In one farm yard I saw feather-less chickens, some were dead, others, I assume, were having as hard a time adjusting to the environment as me.
Fallen trees dotted the countryside. They were everywhere  on top of houses, barns, cars and even each other. It was weird just convincing myself this was all real.
As I got closer to Jett, the traffic became heavier, most of it though
was routed away from the disaster area. At the National Guard checkpoint here, as in Stamping Ground, it was my press card that allowed me access.
Jett, on the right side of US 60 as you enter Frankfort from Versailles, was in complete shambles.
Two men were leaving a church in a pickup truck with a few items salvaged from the destroyed interior. A brand new church bus had been flipped on its side in the parking lot.
Next door, Gene Jacobs car lot lay in ruins. The cars on the lot had received damage and the showroom windows were broken on all four sides.
The Jett-town Shopping Center, several small shops under one roof, was also near ruin. But the heaviest damage to the community of Jett was found in the ruins of a mobile home park.
Six persons were injured here when the tornado passed through. Over 30 mobile homes were totaled or damaged in the severe storm.
Franklin County Health Department workers were busy in the trailer lot administering -tetanus shots to persons who had been injured while shifting through the debris.
Up the road from Jett, in the subdivision of Tierra Linda, apartment buildings were slightly damaged and stylish homes leveled. At least one house was so severely damaged almost nothing would be salvaged.
Yet, and this is really hard to understand, in one end of the subdivision several homes were hardly touched. The twisters selection of victims was as spooky as a game of Russian roulette, 
Steve is a journalism junior and editor of the Kentucky Kernel. Reprinted from the Kentucky Kernel.
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