Another round of rainstorms hit flooded Kentucky mountain communities Monday as more bodies emerged from the sodden landscape, and the governor warned that high winds could bring another threat - falling trees and utility poles.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Another round of rainstorms hit floodedmountain communities Monday as more bodies emerged from the sodden landscape, and the governor warned that high winds could bring another threat - falling trees and utility poles.
“If things weren't hard enough on the people of this region, they're getting rain right now,” Beshear said Monday at the Capitol in Frankfort. “Just as concerning is high winds - think about how saturated the ground has been.” The wind “could knock over poles, it could knock over trees. So people need to be careful.”
“These people, we know most of them. We're a small community,” he said of the town about 110 miles southeast of Lexington. “It affects everybody.” “I don't know how to explain it or what to say, to be completely honest,” he said. “I just can't imagine what they're going through. I don't think there really are words for it.”
The floods were unleashed last week when 8 to 10 1/2 inches of rain fell in just 48 hours in parts of easternThe disaster was the latest in a string of catastrophic deluges that have pounded parts of the U.S. this summer, including St. Louis. Scientists warn that climate change is making such events more common.
“I hate to have to impose a curfew, but looting will absolutely not be tolerated. Our friends and neighbors have lost so much. We cannot stand by and allow them to lose what they have left,” County Attorney Brendon Miller said in a Facebook post.
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