Torrential rains, sometimes more than 20 centimeters in 24 hours, transformed roads into rivers and ravaged from whole neighborhoods. The governor who declared the state of emergency in the disaster areas and announced to expect a “two -digit” death report.
Le Monde with AFP
At least three people died following torrential rains that caused immense floods in the eastern American state of Kentucky, announced its governor this Thursday, July 28, which fears that the results ‘Increases again.
“We are witnessing one of the worst and most devastating floods in the history of eastern Kentucky,” said Governor Andy Beshear in front of journalists. “There are many inhabitants of eastern Kentucky on their roof, who are waiting to be rescued.” He later indicated that three deaths, including that of an 81 -year -old woman, had been confirmed, and that he expected an assessment of the number of “two -digit” deaths. A certain number of people are missing.
In the region around Jackson, certain roads have become rivers, with cars abandoned here and there. At the bottom of the small valleys surrounded by forests, the lands were flooded Thursday of a light brown muddy water which did not let out in certain places that the roofs of the buildings and the trees. Some regions of Kentucky have received some 20 centimeters of rain in 24 hours.
“hundreds of people will lose their house”
The Governor declared the state of emergency in a handful of counties, and four helicopters of the National Guard, as well as semi-rigid boats, were deployed to help with rescue operations. “Many people need help,” said the governor. “And we do our best to reach each of them.”
But “the situation is difficult,” he admitted. “Hundreds of people will lose their house and it will be a new event requiring months, but probably years, so that families rebuild and recover.”
Some 25,000 people are without electricity, some without running water, in the state, he said. President Joe Biden was kept informed of the situation, said his spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre. The manager of the American Catastrophe Management Agency (FEMA), Deanne Criswell, must go there Friday.