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- Tornado warning in Kentucky
- Burger King
- As the dawn of a new day began to settle in the early morning hours of April 20, 1996, Mary Pollard experienced an uneasy feeling as she reported to work as a dispatcher for the Berea Police Department.
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- Within minutes after reporting to work at approximately 5:30 a.m., Pollard watched the Weather Channel as tornado warnings filtered the television screens. Berea had very little time to prepare for the impending twister.
- Come get sandwiches and supplies
- Here is a Sandwich
- It damaged Sweet Betty’s, Burger King and other surrounding structures as employees at the Sunoco Station took shelter in a cooler in the back of the store. The Parker Seal building on Lewis Street workers dodged a storage tank that crashed through the building.
- “I made a lot of tips that day.”
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- “I huddled in the bathtub, holding onto the water spout,” she said. “I just thank the Lord that the apartment didn’t get ripped off the back off that house. It took roofs off of homes just three to four houses down (from me).”
- (We) made sandwiches for city employees and the Kentucky National Guard who came in to help. We had many people and companies who provided food and supplies, including generators.”
- I thought, ‘I hope we don’t have a tornado today.” Pollard said in an interview with the Berea Citizen in 2001.
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