{"id":962403,"date":"2026-05-15T21:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/962403\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T21:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:38:13","slug":"london-family-moves-into-new-home-on-one-year-anniversary-of-tornado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/962403\/","title":{"rendered":"London family moves into new home on one year anniversary of tornado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LONDON, Ky. (WKYT) &#8211; A Laurel County family is moving into their rebuilt home Saturday, exactly one year after a tornado destroyed their previous house and killed 19 people across the county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Larry Vanhook\u2019s daughter and grandchildren lost their home in the May 15, 2025, tornado. They survived in the basement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cRight there in that corner,\u201d Vanhook said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The family expected to move in around Christmas, but numerous delays pushed the completion date to the tornado\u2019s one-year anniversary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cAnd it wasn\u2019t planned that way. That\u2019s just the way it worked out,\u201d Vanhook said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The new home includes steel beams within the basement walls, with Bible verses written on them. Vanhook said the structure is safer and more modern than the previous home, which was built in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cBlock versus poured walls with steel in it. Going to be stronger, the block probably did save my daughter and grandkids\u2019 lives,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Laurel County emergency officials said 800 homes were damaged or destroyed in the tornado. Nearly every resident has moved from temporary travel trailers or hotel rooms to houses.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link | text-reset d-block h-100 w-100\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wkyt.com\/page\/wkyt-apps-for-ios-and-android-devices\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"WKYT Streaming Apps\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778881093_12_MEPHTWNVMREWLEQQWWFJM27ZMA.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WKYT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON, Ky. (WKYT) &#8211; A Laurel County family is moving into their rebuilt home Saturday, exactly one year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":962404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,5168,31954,393,4884,40172,257,268834,50155,16,15],"class_list":["post-962403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-construction","tag-damage","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-laurel-county","tag-london","tag-new-home","tag-tornado","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116580759100273968","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962403","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=962403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/962404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}