{"id":121258,"date":"2025-05-22T01:24:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T01:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/121258\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T01:24:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T01:24:15","slug":"kentucky-man-left-paralyzed-after-violent-tornado-ripped-through-london-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/121258\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky man left paralyzed after violent tornado ripped through London area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tIncredible stories of strength and survival are continuing to come to light after last week&#8217;s deadly tornado tore through Kentucky.It was just after 10:30 p.m. last Friday when sirens began going off in London, Kentucky. Heather McClarrie&#8217;s uncle, David Krull, did his best to take shelter inside the trailer he shares with his sister.\u201cThey were the only two that lived together,\u201d McClarrie said. \u201cHe&#8217;s fully handicapped mentally, so she is his full caregiver.\u201dWith his sister at work, Krull was left to shelter alone.\u201cHe said that he was standing by his bathroom door, and he said, all of a sudden it stopped raining,\u201d McClarrie said. \u201cAnd then next thing he knows, it sounded like a freight train was coming.\u201dKrull was thrown 80 feet and buried beneath the rubble.\u201cA neighbor heard him screaming,\u201d McClarrie said. \u201cIf it had been just a couple minutes later, I don&#8217;t know what would have happened.\u201dKrull suffered a spinal cord injury that&#8217;s left him paralyzed from the neck down. The trailer was destroyed. When the family went back after the storm, they stumbled upon something remarkable.\u201cMy grandma&#8217;s ashes were in the kitchen, and he was on the complete opposite side of the trailer,\u201d McClarrie said.But McClarrie says a guardian angel was watching over her uncle.\u201cWhen they came back out, they found the urn right beside where he was fully intact,\u201d McClarrie said.  \u201cAll ashes still contained. And when we told him that, he just cried, That was what he needed to hear. He needed to hear his mama was there.\u201dThe family is now focused on healing and rebuilding, alongside a community still in shock.\u201cIt is just all these people&#8217;s pain, it&#8217;s like you can physically feel it through the air,\u201d McClarrie said. \u201cBut also at the same time, you know there&#8217;s so much love and support coming from all over the world that is helping every single one of us.\u201dTo donate to the family\u2019s GoFundMe, click here.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong class=\"dateline\">LONDON, Ky. \u2014<\/strong> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Incredible stories of strength and survival are continuing to come to light after last week&#8217;s deadly tornado tore through Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>It was just after 10:30 p.m. last Friday when sirens began going off in London, Kentucky. Heather McClarrie&#8217;s uncle, David Krull, did his best to take shelter inside the trailer he shares with his sister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were the only two that lived together,\u201d McClarrie said. \u201cHe&#8217;s fully handicapped mentally, so she is his full caregiver.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With his sister at work, Krull was left to shelter alone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said that he was standing by his bathroom door, and he said, all of a sudden it stopped raining,\u201d McClarrie said. \u201cAnd then next thing he knows, it sounded like a freight train was coming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Krull was thrown 80 feet and buried beneath the rubble.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA neighbor heard him screaming,\u201d McClarrie said. \u201cIf it had been just a couple minutes later, I don&#8217;t know what would have happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Krull suffered a spinal cord injury that&#8217;s left him paralyzed from the neck down. The trailer was destroyed. When the family went back after the storm, they stumbled upon something remarkable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy grandma&#8217;s ashes were in the kitchen, and he was on the complete opposite side of the trailer,\u201d McClarrie said.<\/p>\n<p>But McClarrie says a guardian angel was watching over her uncle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen they came back out, they found the urn right beside where he was fully intact,\u201d McClarrie said.  \u201cAll ashes still contained. And when we told him that, he just cried, That was what he needed to hear. He needed to hear his mama was there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The family is now focused on healing and rebuilding, alongside a community still in shock.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is just all these people&#8217;s pain, it&#8217;s like you can physically feel it through the air,\u201d McClarrie said. \u201cBut also at the same time, you know there&#8217;s so much love and support coming from all over the world that is helping every single one of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To donate to the family\u2019s GoFundMe, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/help-rebuild-after-tornado-medical-care-for-uncle?attribution_id=sl:438c12e4-35ad-4b3f-9505-60faa647047d&amp;lang=en_US&amp;ts=1747756733&amp;utm_campaign=man_sharesheet_dash&amp;utm_content=amp13_c-amp14_c-amp15_t2&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=messenger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Incredible stories of strength and survival are continuing to come to light after last week&#8217;s deadly tornado tore&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[54050,748,54048,54052,393,390,4884,54047,54051,54045,1319,257,54046,54053,4766,51991,4015,16,54049,15,50231],"class_list":{"0":"post-121258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-ashe","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-david-krull","11":"tag-deadly-tornado","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-family","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-heather-mcclarrie","16":"tag-incredible-story","17":"tag-kentucky-man","18":"tag-last-week","19":"tag-london","20":"tag-london-area","21":"tag-p-m-last-friday","22":"tag-sister","23":"tag-strength","24":"tag-trailer","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-uncle","27":"tag-united-kingdom","28":"tag-violent-tornado"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114548877954802978","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}