“Everything is gone,” 21-year-old Andrea Miranda tells jdbalart. “I got no job, no car, no way to replace it. I don’t know what to do now.'
A Mayfield candle factory worker who had left Puerto Rico two years ago to work in Kentucky spoke emotionally about“Everything is gone,” Andrea Miranda, 21, told MSNBC anchor José Díaz-Balart in an interview Monday. “I got no job, no car, no way to replace it. I don’t know what to do now," she said tearfully.
Miranda had moved to a sheltering area inside the factory when they got the tornado warnings. No more than five minutes had gone by, she said, when the building's roof collapsed. , 4.6 percent of the state's population is Hispanic, a 56.5 percent increase since 2010. In Graves County, where Mayfield was located, they account for 7.6 percent of the total population. Many, like Miranda, work in factory and construction jobs., Mayfield Mayor Kathy Stewart O'Nan said the town is"gone."
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