Alex Slitz
Photojournalist

Only a bookshelf remains in the former law office of Hargrove & Foster at the corner of East North Street and North 6th Street following last tornadoes in Mayfield, Ky., Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021. On Dec. 9, 2021 a series of tornadoes swept through the region killing 77 people across the commonwealth.

Brooke Allen, left, and her twin Mallorie Allen, both 17, of Reed City, Mich., pose for a portrait during the 40th annual Twins Days festival, Aug. 8, 2015, in Twinsburg, Ohio. Twins Days is the largest gathering of twins and multiples on earth.

Damian Coy, of Cynthiana, Ky., paddles a boat along a flooded West Pearl Street to pick up a friend in Cynthiana, Wednesday, May 20, 2020. The Licking River, which runs through Cynthiana, crested at 22.4 feet early Wednesday morning flooding the surrounding neighborhoods.

Mays Bledsoe, 12, left, and Annabeth Bledsoe, 9, both of Lexington, Ky., watch the city of Lexington's Fourth of July fireworks display from the Lexington Center parking lot in Lexington, Saturday, July 4, 2020.

Brian Garfias, 14, of Lexington, Ky., takes a break from yard work at a neighbor's home on Pimlico Parkway in Lexington, Tuesday, July 9, 2019. Lexington Emergency Management warns residents to take extra precautions this week as temperatures climb into the 90s.

A pair of Horses walk under the Cold Moon which will be the last full moon of the decade at KatieRich Farms in Lexington, Ky., Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019.

Lexington firefighters battle a house fire at 404 East Fifth Street in Lexington, Ky., Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020. The fire was extinguished without any injuries and the cause of the blaze is still under investigation.

Marc Avery, of Lexington, Ky., visits the graves of his parents Calvin and Jeanne Avery during a Memorial Day ceremony at Camp Nelson National Cemetery in Nicholasville, Ky., Monday, May 27, 2019. Avery served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1972-1975.

James "David" Sickels Jr., 52, of Scottsville, Ky., holds two jungle corn snakes, which are a special crossbreed between a king and corn snakes that he produces, May 8, 2011, in Cave City, Ky. "When the eggs open, it's like Christmas Day to see what's in there," he said.

John Mansfield, of Nashville, Tenn., takes a photograph of a portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln at the Mary Todd Lincoln House in Lexington, Ky., on April 22, 2017. Thirty eight Abraham Lincoln and 14 Mary Todd Lincoln presenters attended the 23rd annual Association of Lincoln Presenters convention in Lexington

Lexington police Sgt. Tyler Smith, speaks with a man who wished not to be identified following an accident on Nicholasville Road which left his suv overturned in Lexington, Ky., Friday, April 10, 2020. No injuries were reported.

Ozzy McMasters, 11, left, and Clarence Bates, 13, both of Evansville, point toy guns at each other while waiting for other neighborhood children to join in a game of cops and robbers on W. Missouri Street, Oct. 4, 2016, in Evansville, Ind.

One of eight Chevrolet Corvettes is removed from a sinkhole in the Skydome at the National Corvette Museum, March. 3, 2014, in Bowling Green, Ky.