Governor Andy Beshear says he expects death toll to ‘more than double’ after record floods wipe out entire towns in state’s east
Kentucky’s governor said it could take weeks to find all the victims of flash flooding that killed at least 16 people when heavy rains turned streams into torrents that swamped towns across Appalachia.
“From everything we’ve seen, we may be updating the count of how many we lost for the next several weeks,” Beshear said. “In some of these areas, it’s hard to know exactly how many people were there.” “Many of these people cannot recover out here. They have homes that are half underwater, they’ve lost everything,” she said.
Rescue teams backed by the national guard used helicopters and boats to search for the missing. Beshear said on Friday that at least six children were among the victims and that the total number of lives lost could more than double as rescue teams reach more areas. Among those who died were four children from the same family in Knott county, the coroner, Corey Watson, said Friday.
April Stivers of Lost Creek, Kentucky, takes a moment to herself in the Hazard Community & Technical College, where survivors of the flooding are being taken for shelter, in Breathitt County, Kentucky. April was airlifted from her roof after her partner Chad hammered a hole in the roof to climb out.Extreme rain events have become more common as the climate crisis bakes the planet and alters weather patterns, according to scientists.
Just to the west in hard-hit Perry County, authorities said some people remained unaccounted for and almost everyone in the area had suffered some sort of damage.
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