On the night of Dec. 10, 2021, Kay Houston didn’t go into work at the Mayfield Consumer Products candle factory in southwestern Kentucky as usual. She needed to stay home and recover from a bout of Covid-19. Getting sick may have saved her life. That evening, an EF-4 tornado ripped through...
First United Methodist Church of Madisonville, Kentucky Madisonville, KY Lives Impacted: 100 + After a series of tornadoes devastated areas in Kentucky in December 2021, communities have been working to recover from the damage left to houses and institutions. First United Methodist Church of Madisonville, KY, is a Good360 nonprofit partner...
In 2022, the United States experienced 15 billion-dollar weather and climate-related disasters—well above the historical average of seven such events per year. This year’s extreme weather events continues a trend we’ve been seeing since 1980 of more and more billion-dollar natural disasters. Not only are we experiencing an increasing number of disasters...
Kentucky can’t seem to catch a break. In less than 12 months, the state has endured an extraordinary string of catastrophes—bringing into sharp focus what can go right and what can go wrong with disaster recovery. Good360 is working to close the need gap as verified by our local/statewide nonprofit & governmental...