LONDON, Ky. (WDRB) -- A Kentucky family was reunited with its cat Sunday after days of searching the rubble of its home flattened by Friday night's tornado.
The family — who rode out the storm by hiding in a bathroom — said they'd come to assume the cat was gone until someone heard a faint meow from the destroyed house.
"She's probably gone. She's probably dead," Vanessa Mullins said she thought after the storm. "But she honestly was in the place that she always goes to hide back there. And somehow she was safe — miraculously safe."
Mullins said they had five dogs, four pigs, two cats and a duck, and only the duck was found dead.
In the early stages of surveying, the National Weather Service said it looks like an EF3 tornado with 140 mph started in Russell County, ended near Leslie County and decimated a large swath of Laurel County on the way. The entire path was likely the same tornado, surveyors believe.
Gov. Andy Beshear said 17 people were killed in Laurel County, while one person died in Pulaski County and Russell County. There are also 10 people from Laurel County who sustained critical injuries.
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