Hal Lamberton, said Thursday morning, without detailing where these people were. The Guard has identified people stuck on roofs and was “making preparations to go in and withdraw them,” the state’s adjutant general, Maj. The governor activated the National Guard to help with rescues and recovery and declared an emergency to expedite resources to help, he said. “Hundreds will lose their homes, and this is going to be yet another event (where) it’s going to take not months, but likely years, for many families to rebuild and recover,” Beshear said the morning media briefing. The governor said the state will need a long time to recover. “I have no plan, I don’t know, how do you start from zero?” she asked. The family is now staying with her brother-in-law in Hazard. Their three-bedroom home and her truck were washed away early Thursday. “By 2 a.m., everything I had was completely underwater,” she told CNN, adding 10 to 15 other families in a 1-mile stretch also lost everything.Īsher, her husband and three children live on the line dividing Breathitt and Perry counties.
The rains have caused untold damage to homes in the state’s slice of central Appalachia and forced some residents to the roofs of their swamped homes to await rescue, the governor said at a morning news conference.Įastern Kentucky resident Belinda Asher said she received a flash flood alert on her phone at 1:15 a.m. In less than an hour, her family's home was washed away Asher, who lives in the Perry-Breathitt County line with her husband and three children, described the flooding as a "war zone." Her family who lives in the area and her neighbors were also not spared by the rising water. “We’re watching pretty close and it’s not going to take too much to cause some additional flooding issues,” Dustin Jordan, of the weather service office in Jackson, told CNN.īelinda Asher, 37, said her three bedroom home was washing away in the flash flooding in Kentucky. Flood warnings in portions of eastern Kentucky have been extended, in some cases until Monday evening.Īdditional rainfall amounts of over an inch are expected through Friday evening. The rain in eastern Kentucky overwhelmed creeks, streams and ground already saturated from previous rain, the weather service said. Portions of Kentucky around Hazard received more than 9 inches of rain from Wednesday into Thursday morning, according to National Weather Service radar estimates and local observers. Andy Beshear tweeted.īeshear said personnel from the National Guard, the Fish & Wildlife Department, state police and local emergency management agencies were responding to the crisis. The death toll has heartbreakingly risen to 8 Kentuckians lost,” Gov. “This is an ongoing natural disaster, with more rain expected tonight that could worsen the situation. At least eight people have died in widespread flooding in eastern Kentucky following heavy overnight rains, the governor said Thursday – an inundation he says will be “one of the most significant, deadly floods” in the commonwealth’s history.
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