Many natural disasters have struck Kentucky communities in the past few years, causing millions of dollars for potential repairs
Disasters like floods and horrible tornados have struck Kentucky. Kentucky crossed paths with one of the most destructive tornados in state history. The storms had demolished Bremen, Ky. Again, in Kentucky, Hindman got hit with a terrible flood last week. Each community that got hit had other communities to help them and build back up. Over the years, they have had to rely on each other to send materials.
The floods were fatal, killing 26 last week, and a sign there will be more natural disasters to come. Last July, an ice storm cut off power to over 150,000 citizens, a flash flood, and tornados killing 80 people and causing mass destruction of about 200 miles.
These disasters are luckily just hitting the very rural areas of Kentucky that were already very vulnerable to these disasters and are not hitting places that would have significant setbacks. “These places were not thriving before,” said Jason Bailey, the executive director of the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy. “To even get back to where they were is a long road.” The disasters still left a lot of damage to all communities, rural or developed.
Homes have been ripped from the ground and many other structures like bridges have been destroyed by floods. Dan Mosley and other people have been helping out in many communities. After seeing the destruction compared to his community, he said that the worst devastation he saw was in Knott and Letcher Counties.
People were forced to be homeless after these floods as many victims got out of their homes to evacuate. “We had another flood, a record flood, not 12 months ago, and a lot of families had just started getting their lives back on track,” said Hargis Epperson, the county coroner. “Now it’s happened all over again, worse this time. Everybody’s lost everything, twice.”
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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/30/us/kentucky-flooding-natural-disasters.html
Disasters like floods and horrible tornados have struck Kentucky. Kentucky crossed paths with one of the most destructive tornados in state history. The storms had demolished Bremen, Ky. Again, in Kentucky, Hindman got hit with a terrible flood last week. Each community that got hit had other communities to help them and build back up. Over the years, they have had to rely on each other to send materials.
The floods were fatal, killing 26 last week, and a sign there will be more natural disasters to come. Last July, an ice storm cut off power to over 150,000 citizens, a flash flood, and tornados killing 80 people and causing mass destruction of about 200 miles.
These disasters are luckily just hitting the very rural areas of Kentucky that were already very vulnerable to these disasters and are not hitting places that would have significant setbacks. “These places were not thriving before,” said Jason Bailey, the executive director of the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy. “To even get back to where they were is a long road.” The disasters still left a lot of damage to all communities, rural or developed.
Homes have been ripped from the ground and many other structures like bridges have been destroyed by floods. Dan Mosley and other people have been helping out in many communities. After seeing the destruction compared to his community, he said that the worst devastation he saw was in Knott and Letcher Counties.
People were forced to be homeless after these floods as many victims got out of their homes to evacuate. “We had another flood, a record flood, not 12 months ago, and a lot of families had just started getting their lives back on track,” said Hargis Epperson, the county coroner. “Now it’s happened all over again, worse this time. Everybody’s lost everything, twice.”
Link:
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/30/us/kentucky-flooding-natural-disasters.html
