JACKSBORO (1080 KRLD)- Jacksboro residents have started cleaning up from Monday's tornado. The National Weather Service estimates the tornado had wind speeds of 150 miles per hour.
"God graced this community with no injuries, no fatalities," says Kevin Dennis. "He's even more present in everybody working together. We will rise from this and be better for it"
Wednesday afternoon, Dennis' company, Nine Energy, had set up a food truck at Jacksboro High School to offer free meals to electric crews and people whose homes had been damaged.
"All of our families are so close in this town," he says. "To see all of this devastation, it's just been overwhelming. We're all local. We all grew up here. This is our hometown, so we're just trying to give back a little bit."
More than 40,000 people lost power during the storms. Wednesday afternoon, Oncor said less than 2,000 were without electricity.
Utilities from other parts of the country sent manpower and equipment to work with Oncor on restoration. They were staging in the Jacksboro High School parking lot.
"I can't say enough about everybody coming in to help our little community," Dennis says.
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He says Jacksboro High School has a "V" at the football stadium that lights up when the team wins. The sign was knocked down in the storm, but Dennis says he hopes the sign will be fixed and reattached.
"I told my wife, when we were coming to check out the damage, if that V is still on the press box, we're lighting it because we're going to get through this," he says.
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