MILTON, Ky. — It's quiet just a week after an EF-2 tornado made it's way through Milton, Kentucky and Hanover, Indiana.
"It was a mess," Robert Rowlett, a Milton resident, said.
He was trying to get off work at Kentucky Utilities when the tornado hit. The winds were so powerful it picked up his car and slid him to the edge of the road.
"I mean if you look around town here I mean when you think of all the damage that has been done here, nobody got killed, it's pretty amazing," Rowlett said.
Most of the businesses and homes in the small Trimble County town were hit; roofs were caved in and some windows were broken.
While Rowlett's family didn't see massive destruction like others, they're still faced with repairs.
Tree limbs, debris and broken glass have been cleaned up thanks to help from the community.
"You don't have to ask nobody, everybody just jumps in, I mean I seen people out with chainsaws in their hands, I mean you get people that come in that you don't even know," Rowlett said.
Across the Ohio River in Hanover, a subdivision had major destruction to a couple of homes.
Don Lostutter just came back home this Monday from vacation.
"We were very fortunate we had minimal damage to our house compared to the three houses across the way from us over here that are pretty much destroyed," he said.
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Lostutter is one of the few lucky ones that only had minor damage to his roof and door. He's amazed by how much his neighborhood has cleaned up already.
"I guess it was unreal from the stories we've been told of how many people that were in here trying to help and get things picked up and cleaned up," he said.
Now every time he steps outside his yard he has this thought.
Lostutter said they're "more grateful that nobody was [seriously] hurt," as he thinks of how it could've been his home destroyed.
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