Godspeed to the people of Western Kentucky as they face death toll and destruction from wee hours tornados across a wide swath of their region.

Too early to speculate on the relatively inconsequential topic of next Saturday's Boca Raton Bowl, but this tragedy will absolutely have it's impact!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topst ... ar-AARHFjw

Wow! Absolutely awful. Prayers for all involved and the community.

Bowling Green homes, businesses destroyed in deadly tornado event

https://www.wkrn.com/news/kentucky/bowl ... ado-event/

WKU said one off-campus student, set to graduate this weekend, died in the storms.

An EF5 tornado in December is nuts.

The bowl game and both universities participating show start a donation drive.

this is horrible...the scenes I've seen already are horrific

They are now saying no WKU students died.

ASU3432Mi wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 11, 2021 11:58 am

They are now saying no WKU students died.

Chancellor put out a statement saying one student...who was supposed to be graduating today, was killed in an off-campus residence.

hotrod2001 wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 11, 2021 12:38 pm

The Black and Gold Podcast has set up a GoFundMe account to raise money for the Western Kentucky Regional Blood Center. It had a goal of $3,333 which it has already surpassed inside of an hour

Donated. Let's go to work Mountaineers!!

hotrod2001 wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 11, 2021 1:07 pm

ASU3432Mi wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 11, 2021 11:58 am

They are now saying no WKU students died.

Chancellor put out a statement saying one student...who was supposed to be graduating today, was killed in an off-campus residence.

Tbatchelor1977 wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 11, 2021 1:34 pm

hotrod2001 wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 11, 2021 12:38 pm

The Black and Gold Podcast has set up a GoFundMe account to raise money for the Western Kentucky Regional Blood Center. It had a goal of $3,333 which it has already surpassed inside of an hour

Donated. Let's go to work Mountaineers!!

doing it right now....let's go Mountaineers!

Gofundme account has now surpassed $10k in donations. Good job App!

Also, these same storms tore through NE Arkansas and parts of Missouri and Tennessee over a 200 mile area.

Jonesboro wasn't hit, but towns nearby were. Kara Richey, an A-State radio personality, raised $1,600 in 2 hours for supplies for one of the towns.

There's some towns in that line that were flattened and look applocalyptic.

hotrod2001 wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 11, 2021 12:38 pm

The Black and Gold Podcast has set up a GoFundMe account to raise money for the Western Kentucky Regional Blood Center. It had a goal of $3,333 which it has already surpassed inside of an hour

Guys, I just donated and I’d encourage all of you to as well. We might be enemies on the field, but we’re all people. Let’s show this community why it’s great to be a Mountaineer. It’s such a tragedy, this close to Christmas.

appalum2003 wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 12, 2021 12:34 am

hotrod2001 wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 11, 2021 12:38 pm

The Black and Gold Podcast has set up a GoFundMe account to raise money for the Western Kentucky Regional Blood Center. It had a goal of $3,333 which it has already surpassed inside of an hour

Guys, I just donated and I’d encourage all of you to as well. We might be enemies on the field, but we’re all people. Let’s show this community why it’s great to be a Mountaineer. It’s such a tragedy, this close to Christmas.

Enemies? Not trying to be obtuse, but football at any level is just a game (a money game, but yet only a game).

This super tornado was astounding, I believe I saw that it reached from Illinois to Mississippi. Hopefully it didn't cause too much damage to our soon to be Sunbelt brethren's area around University of Southern Mississippi. Going to give blood as soon as the Red Cross comes around my area. Have been doing so for over 50 years. Hopefully some of blood donors' contributions reaches the folks in those areas hit by the mega tornado. Just as important to those folks as monetary.

Consider retweeting the B&G podcast link. Need to keep this going all week.

As of this morning the donation pool is up to over $11k.

Just added my donation

Just added my donation. Prayers to the WKU and the Bowling Green community.