Massive flooding in eastern Kentucky engulfs homes, leaves several dead
Source: Washington Post
Buildings and roads are flooded near Lost Creek, Ky., on July 28, 2022. (Ryan C. Hermens/Lexington Herald-Leader/AP)
A new round of catastrophic flooding has struck the central United States, this time in the Appalachian foothills of eastern Kentucky, swamping communities and leaving several people missing or trapped, with at least three people dead.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) called the event “one of the worst, most devastating flooding events in Kentucky’s history” Thursday morning and said “we expect double digit deaths” at a news conference midday. “I do believe it will end up being one of the most significant deadly floods that we have had in Kentucky in at least a very long time,” he said.
Images shared on social media show houses submerged to their roofs, cars swept away, and serious damage to roadways and other infrastructure.Beshear said that people were still waiting to be rescued midday while police searched for missing people. “This isn’t just a disaster, it’s an ongoing natural disaster,” Beshear said. “We are in the midst of it. and for some place it will continue through tonight.” An additional two to three inches of rain forecast for the impacted area Thursday night, Beshear said.
Flooding was reported in numerous counties in southeastern Kentucky early Thursday, including Breathitt, Floyd, Perry, Knott, Leslie, Pike and Magoffin. Scott Sandlin, answering phones for Perry County Emergency Management, confirmed one death, but he didn’t have any details about the victim or circumstances. “Our county has been devastated. We’ve just washed away," Scott said. "It’s been the highest level of water I’ve ever seen.”
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/07/28/kentucky-flooding-jackson-hazard/
"Lost Creek, KY" (in the OP pic) appears to be in eastern KY in the Appalachian mountains.
ETA - meanwhile EVIL SPAWN OF RON PAUL is trashing Biden about "the economy" while his own state FLOODS. He seems completely oblivious to this.
Out of a pile of tweets he had one brief one that gave a side-glance at the disaster unfolding in the state he represents -
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Kelley and I are sending prayers to those in Eastern Kentucky following last night's horrific flooding. My team is here to help.
Tots and pears for the drowning in his own state. And the flooding wasn't just "last night". It's still going on because it's still raining!
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A MODERATE risk is in effect in our Day 2 Excessive Rainfall Outlook. More details: http://go.usa.gov/cu3Dw
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Moderate Risks for Excessive Rainfall are in effect thru tonight for portions of the Southern Rockies & Ohio Valley as high amounts of moisture develop over CO/NM, and an additional 1-3" of rain is forecasted over KY and southern WV, increasing the threat for flash flooding 🌧️.
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How about some work on climate change and green infrastructure that can help to handle storm water run
off instead of empty words how some sky God will help them?
BTW that area of America with its steep hills and bottom land streams and rivers can and will flood PDQ. That
little stream up in the hills that is few inches to 1 foot deep can become 5' of raging water in no time and that
water will swell the bottom land streams and rivers in no time.
that feeds into the Schuylkill River here in Philly and normally the Wissahickon runs about 2.5ft deep near the mouth to the Schuylkill. But when there is heavy rain over the watershed up where I live, that Wissahickon can and will shoot up to 5 or more ft and out of its banks right along a major commuter route that runs to downtown Philly.
The water all flows downhill from around the area. For example - this is a bridge that goes over that creek as it is feeding into the river -
This is what happened when the creek flooded (water right up to the top of and over the bridge at street level) -
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... fail in places because a decent storm with its wind and rain would pile up brush and vegetation
along the base of the wall and make it into a dam and then the force of the water collapse the
wall. And she was right too.
In Appalachia with the steep slopes and in many cases the soil not being very deep on the hills to soak
up the water flash floods are common but they will get worse because warm air carries more moisture
then cooler air. ( And floods will become more common world wide too. Along with droughts, polar outbreaks,
wild fires, ghost forests as the salty sea water moves inland, stronger storms, and so many other problems from
climate change will be seen world wide.)
and what was predicted to happen and it did. This is why there was supposed to be an "environmental impact" studies for projects like that to know what the potential climatological, geological, and hydrological norms and ranges for the area.
We have a situation here at the start of the Piedmont as it drops into flat coastal plain that goes across Jersey right to the Atlantic Ocean. Lots of old gorges where water runs down the cliffs into the creeks and river (below the one for the Wissahickon that floods) -
I know that KY, including N. KY, has lots of hills and ridges and you have the feeders that flow into the Ohio River.
when those tornadoes ripped through KY last year and he was running around like a chicken with its head cut off.
The outbreak had produced a record or near-record EF5 that tore a path over 300 miles.
