Kentucky Flooding: The Devastating Photos You Won't Believe
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Kentucky Flooding |
Kentucky flooding urgent
search this evening for the missing after this new and deadly flooding
emergency at least eight people have died in Kentucky and the death toll is
expected to rise reports of families who were trapped in their kitchens on
countertops as those floodwaters were rising a grandmother trying to find her.
Family no cell service she
has not heard from loved ones from her grandchildren what Kentucky's governor
is now saying tonight look at the pictures in eastern Kentucky flooding images.
Kentucky much of the town of
Garrett has now flooded the water quickly rising after dark catching so many by
surprise hazard Kentucky is devastated tonight this
The road was now a river the
water rushing down a hill taking this home right down with its homes and cars so
many of them destroyed.
so many underwater tonight
in buckhorn Kentucky flood waters up to the roof of this school emergency crews
using boats to rescue people so many are stranded by the rain some are rescued
from their rooftops and tonight with roads out and communications down there are
a desperate search to find so many still unaccounted for ABC's molar light
leading us off tonight he's on the scene in Kentucky tonight homes washed away
and unspeakable damage flash flood emergencies in Kentucky claiming multiple
lives the storms
Eastern Kentucky flooding
coming in the middle of the night we have had numerous inches of rain that have
fallen over a short period of time calls coming into emergency responders for
families
Trapped got a family trapped
in a home standing on the counter's waters almost over the counters and they
have normal Barbara wicker desperate for word on her relatives you said you
have five grandchildren stuck.
Kentucky flooding locations
yes and two adults yes their porches have been knocked off the waist deep in
water the water is up to their doors their phones are probably out I can't
reach them I can't reach 9-1-1 rescuers facing challenging
Conditions to reach stranded
residents.
We know we've got folks now
that we just can't get to them because the water is swift everything is going
like everything is gone Rachel Patton's home completely flooded the water deep
we had to swim out and it was cold it was over my head
Flood waters inundated this
school the destruction revealed when they receded waterways filled with debris.
Flooding in Kentucky cinder
blocks all that remains where some buildings used to be Kentucky's governor
called up the National Guard to warn
The death toll will rise to
ask everybody to pray
there are a lot of people
out there who need help who are really scared right now and we're doing the
very best we can to reach each and every one of them late today more flash
flooding in sat Louis reports of people trapped at a daycare
coming just days after that
area was hit by devastating floods sat Louis getting hit again tonight let's
bring in mole lingo he's lives in Whitesburg Kentucky employ we can see the
water there right up almost to that overpass over your shoulder yeah David this
river the water still much higher than it normally is as you can see homes and
businesses nearby still submerged still flooded out the devastation is
widespread and there seems to be more rain coming to many of these same areas
tonight David mulling on.
