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1 p.m. — The Knott County Coroner’s Office confirmed to the Herald-Leader that there are now 14 deaths in the county relating to the eastern Kentucky floods, raising the state’s death toll ...
Here are the latest updates and news around the floods in Eastern Kentucky. Kentucky flood updates: Governor confirms more deaths. Curfews enforced due to looting.
According to the Kentucky State Mesonet, in Mayfield, 11.28 inches of rain had fallen is less than 24 hours on Wednesday.. The Kentucky State Mesonet is a statewide weather and climate monitoring ...
Pike County in far eastern Kentucky also sustained flooding, with multiple roads being blocked by downed trees and power lines as well. In the Virgie area, south of Pikeville, Shelby Creek overran its banks and inundated several homes, leading to the closure of KY 610 in the area. [30] An airlift during the flood in Kentucky.
Heavy rain poured down across eastern Kentucky late Wednesday into Thursday, triggering deadly flash flooding that caused mudslides, washed away homes and roadways and promoted a flash flood ...
The death toll rose to 40 after an individual died during cleanup efforts in Pike County, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said in a statement. ... More than six weeks after catastrophic flooding swept ...
Major flooding inundated Southeast Kentucky from February 6–7, 2020, as the result of an extremely heavy rain event. [1]Twenty one counties in Eastern Kentucky sustained flood damage, and Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear declared a state of emergency on February 8, for Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Leslie, Letcher, Perry and Whitley Counties.
Kentucky Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River on the county line between Livingston and Marshall counties in the U.S. state of Kentucky.The dam is the lowermost of nine dams on the river owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the late 1930s and early 1940s to improve navigation on the lower part of the river and reduce flooding on the lower ...