These floods, which started last week and are among the most serious having ever struck Kentucky, transformed certain roads into rivers, swept away from bridges and swept houses into one of the most disadvantaged regions in the country.
Le Monde with AFP
The still provisional assessment of the devastating floods in Kentucky rose to 37 dead and the weather continues, the governor of this state of the Southeast American South-East said on Monday, August 1. “We end the day with heartbreaking news from eastern Kentucky. We can confirm that the number of deaths is now 37, and that there are still a lot of missing,” said Twitter Andy Beshear on Twitter , the governor of Kentucky. “Let us pray for these families,” he added.
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m. Beshear said that the number of deaths is likely to grow as help are deployed in the areas affected by floods and find new bodies. Their research was hampered by new rains on Monday and new thunderstorms are expected that night. “As if the situation was not difficult enough for the inhabitants of this region, they have rain at the moment,” the governor had regretted during a press briefing earlier in the day.
New weather upcoming
The National Meteorology Center (National Weather Service) put most of eastern Kentucky under alert flood until Tuesday morning and warned of a risk of thunderstorms this evening in the region.
“Strong precipitation which could cause sudden floods as well as violent thunderstorms are possible,” wrote the National Meteorology Center on Twitter.
These floods, which started last week and are among the most serious having ever struck Kentucky. The particularly disadvantaged state has been completely swept away. The damage caused to the mobile phone antennas have complicated help and the estimate of the number of deaths and missing. Sunday, the governor said that bodies were going to be found “for weeks, many of which will have been swept away on hundreds of meters”.
President Joe Biden decreed the state of “natural disaster” and unlocked federal reinforcements.