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A state of emergency has been issued for several western Kentucky counties after slow-moving thunderstorms unleashed an epic deluge of water early Wednesday morning. Several people were forced ...
2022 Appalachian floods. Radar estimated rainfall in Eastern Kentucky and surrounding areas from July 25 to 30, highlighting the counties that received the most rain. Between July 26 and August 1, 2022, widespread and catastrophic flooding swept through portions of eastern Kentucky, southwestern Virginia, and southern West Virginia. 45 people ...
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear declared a state of emergency for Mayfield and surrounding areas, and toured the flooded areas. [19] [22] Local emergencies were declared in Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, and Lee counties in Kentucky, and also in the cities of Arlington, Bardwell, Clinton, Cumberland, and Mayfield. [17]
Governor of Kentucky Andy Beshear declared a state of emergency on July 28. [47] [48] [9] [49] after what was described as a thousand-year flooding event. [18]The Kentucky Court of Justice closed the judicial centers in Floyd, Letcher, Magoffin, and Perry counties due to the extreme flooding. [50]
Impassable roads in Fulton County are being reported by the county’s EMA. In a Facebook post, the agency wrote state routes 2139 and 935 are impassable as a result of down trees and power lines.
The Kentucky Mesonet system, which has weather-monitoring stations statewide, said that as of 7 a.m. Thursday, 3.37 inches of rain had been recorded since midnight at a location in Breathitt ...
The violent, long-tracked, EF4-intensity 2021 Western Kentucky tornado occurred during the late evening of Friday, December 10, 2021; it moved across Western Kentucky, United States, producing severe-to-catastrophic damage in numerous towns, including Mayfield, Princeton, Dawson Springs, and Bremen. [2] This tornado was the second significant ...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will likely reimburse cities and counties for those costs but Breathitt and other counties don’t have the money now to make those fixes.