The poorest are always hit hardest by disasters, and in this part of Kentucky the communities are not well off and their homes are not well built.
Eunice HowardShe doesn't really know how she managed to escape and had she not, she would certainly have lost her life.As we walked up the river bank from where the half intact house now sits, I realised what she had been trying to explain, because the house wasn't built where where it now sits.
A few hundred metres away, she showed us a patch of ground with some cement gridding. It was the foundations of her grandmother's home.We put our drone up and it became clear: a path of destruction. It was one snapshot of so many communities destroyed."Not at all... not in all our time here," said Eunice who has been in this valley for more than 50 years.
Cortney added:"It's just very very sad to see the house you grew up in and everything get washed away. Memories... all that stuff you can't get back."Two things strike me on every extreme weather story I report on - and there have been many recently.In New York last year, the dead were those living in the basement apartments.And that's the second thing - governments need to wholly rethink building and planning regulations with much more urgency.
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